Rochdale indie rockers The Hotspur Press launch gig

The Hotspur Press

Rochdale indie-rock four piece The Hotspur Press have recently been signed by upcoming NW indie label B33 records and are now launching their debut single ‘Other People’ with a gig at Deaf Institute in Manchester on 28 October.

A break-up song about a relationship hurtling into oblivion, ‘Other People’ is described as a dizzying four-minute hit that bursts with an inexplicable energy and undiminishing urgency; a sugar rush of cut-glass harmonics, skyscraping choruses and jet-stream guitar breaks.

Recorded at Big Tone Recordings in Eccles, the track was produced by Tim Grey (a producer known for his work with established names the likes of Peter Hook, Ginger Wildheart, Sonic Boom Six and British Sea Power to name a few).

Speaking about the track, guitarist and vocalist, Dan Manchester said: “It’s definitely quite plainly about a break-up.

“More precisely, it’s about my ex’s unilateral withdrawal of affection at the point of and subsequent to having mutually decided to break up; a lamentation, from my point of view of her insistence that the best way to move forward was to act as if the relationship had never existed.

“Or to summarise less pretentiously, the overall gist of the song is ‘okay, I agree we’re not working - here’s to the future, but do you have to be such an emotionless b***h about it? It wasn’t all bad.’”

Formed around Dan Manchester and his brother Tom, the pair’s close relationship and healthy attitude to a little competition have respectively provided both the cornerstone and driving force of The Hotspur Press. With an unquenchable urge to make some of the acoustic songs he had penned “sound bigger”, Dan invited school friends George Webster (percussion) and Chris Nutter (bass guitar) to form the tight-knit rhythm section.