By Callum Ludwig
Young local band Tudor Club are back with their first release of 2023, with ‘Ten Feet’ set to drop for listeners on all streaming platforms on Friday 7 July.
Ten Feet is their first offering of a five-track EP set to be released later this year.
Lead singer and rhythm guitarist Rory Say said it was just him and drummer and backing vocalist James Dryden in the recording studio for this song.
“With the new band set up with new members, the dates we had blocked for recording fell in a transition period, but it’s an old song of ours we started playing at our live sets about two years ago,” he said.
“We’ve been deep in a rehearsal period with our new members, getting them settled in and acclimatised to all the old material and the new material as well, and only just started playing shows with them two or three weeks ago.”
Only a few months ago, Tudor Club held a big send-off set at Sooki Lounge in Belgrave for original band members Flynn Trewavis and Alex Theodoropoulos, with Oscar Thompson and Tyler Turfboer joining recently.
Mr Dryden said ‘Ten Feet’ has more of a pop influence than some of their other songs.
“It definitely has more of a singer-songwriter vibe compared to our last stuff, but I think that’s the direction that we’re trying to take it now and I’m really excited for it,” he said.
“The send-off was probably the biggest crowd that we’ve pulled at a show so far, they brought all their friends and family and stuff and we couldn’t have asked for a better final gig for those two.”
Tudor Club currently has four songs available to stream on Spotify: Debut single Embers which has racked up over 15,000 streams as well as On Your Way, Reclamation and Breathe, with 520 monthly listeners regularly listening to the band on the platform.
Both Mr Say and Mr Dryden are over the moon with where the band is at right now.
“With our live gigs, we’ve been levelling up as time goes on and it’s like a natural progression with any live band that continues to play, the headliners just keep getting bigger and bigger, not at a crazy rate, but at a steady, consistent rate,” said Mr Say.
“We’re so happy with this new material and taking all new steps as well, we’ve got a music video underway, we feel like we were learning everything last year and now we’ve done it, so we’re just going to try and do it a bit better this time.”
Tudor Club’s next gig is at Sooki Lounge on Friday 30 June as a support act for Willowbank Grove.
