The Good, The Bad & The Queen will today drop a brand new track titled ‘Gun To The Head’ from forthcoming studio album Merrie Land. 

Listen to the track Here

 

In preparation for their shows in Blackpool, Glasgow and London the band will play 3 intimate warm-up shows in Tynemouth, at the Tynemouth CIU Club on 26th November and Cullercoats Crescent Club on 27th & 28th November - each with a rare capacity of less than 100. Tickets go on sale at 9.00am this Wednesday. Ticket information here.

 

This week saw the band make their first live appearance in seven years with the debut performance of album title track ‘Merrie Land’ and ‘Gun To The Head’ on ‘Later…. With Jools Holland’. Watch here.

 

Following an eleven-year hiatus since their eponymous debut, the four musical storytellers are back with Merrie Land, which will be self-released on the newly created label Studio 13. Produced by Tony Visconti and The Good, The Bad & The Queen, Merrie Land contains 10 new songs - written during the current period in which the UK is preparing to leave the European Union - creating a reluctant good-bye letter, a series of observations and reflections on Britishness in 2018.

 

Merrie Land’s focus moves beyond GBQ’s London-themed first album to a wider land, with a beautiful and hopeful paean to the Britain of today, an inclusive Britain, currently in an Anglo-Saxostentialist crises at the end of a relationship, wondering  what might be salvaged. Could there be a more perfect band - with their creative symbiosis of pasts and present and shared acclaimed music histories - to reflect on the anticipation, disorientation and confusion of current life.

 

The full track listing for Merrie Land is:

- Merrie Land

- Gun to the Head

- Nineteen Seventeen

- The Great Fire

- Lady Boston

- Drifters & Trawlers

- The Truce of Twilight

- Ribbons

- The Last Man to Leave

- The Poison Tree

 

Merrie Land - STREAM / BUY HERE

The Good, The Bad & The Queen – LIVE DATES:

26 November – Tynemouth CIU Club, NORTH EAST

https://www.seetickets.com/tour/the-good-the-bad-and-the-queen

 

27 November - Cullercoats Crescent Club, NORTH EAST

https://www.seetickets.com/tour/the-good-the-bad-and-the-queen

 

28 November - Cullercoats Crescent Club, NORTH EAST

https://www.seetickets.com/tour/the-good-the-bad-and-the-queen

 

1 December - The North Pier, BLACKPOOL

https://www.seetickets.com/event/the-good-the-bad-the-queen/north-pier/1272677

 

2 December – SWG3, GLASGOW

http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/event/3600554FD1925A60

 

4 December – Hackney Arts Centre, LONDON

https://www.seetickets.com/event/the-good-the-bad-the-queen/earth-hackney-arts-centre-/1272679

 

5 December – Hackney Arts Centre, LONDON

https://www.seetickets.com/event/the-good-the-bad-the-queen/earth-hackney-arts-centre-/1272681

 

6 December - Hackney Arts Centre, London

https://www.seetickets.com/event/the-good-the-bad-the-queen/earth-hackney-arts-centre-/1272682