Opus Kink have announced ‘A Hideous Collective’, a 24-track compilation album raising funds for Music Venue Trust and UK Artist Touring Fund, set for release on 5th September via Hideous Mink Records and SO Recordings.
The vinyl and CD-only release features new and reworked material from artists including Wunderhorse, English Teacher, Katy J Pearson, Lambrini Girls and Antony Szmierek. The campaign launches with lead track ‘Thank You Satan’ by Opus Kink.
The band have curated the collection through their own label, bringing together UK artists in support of independent venues and addressing touring cost challenges. Additional contributors include Warmduscher, TTSSFU, Los Bitchos, Matt Maltese, Luvcat and Big Special.
“Touring independent music venues is like this. The most passionate organisers are the ones who do it on a shoestring and are often one bad season away from crumbling. Support for these venues and humans is starting to glimmer in the ashes through donations and awareness and the work of groups like MVT, but as always, unfortunately, it must also take wresting a more fundamental and top-down offering from the industry to really stay the decimation of grassroots live music culture in this country,” Opus Kink explain. “In the meantime, please enjoy the sounds of some of the artists who help to keep alive the places that birthed them and please buy this record so you can do that too. And remember to thank Satan.”
Big Special add: “Independent venues have played a vital role in every single step of our development as a band and as musicians. From building our confidence on small stages as teenagers playing around the midlands, to our first headline run as full time musicians in our 30s. Touring on busy schedules you never end up seeing much of the places you visit, but indie venues are usually the main vein of a city’s culture. If these independent venues are taken away, an opportunity for working class and minority artists and young people and music fans to have a foot into an industry that is usually reserved for the most privileged will be taken away also. The most ironic thing would be the people where most of real art comes from, being excluded from the chance to make a living from their work and their art.”
The compilation will be available exclusively through independent record stores, including Rough Trade, Resident, Piccadilly, Norman, and Crash.
Vinyl One
01 – A Foreword From Steve Lamacq
02 – Big Special – Cooked Fish
03 – Katy J Pearson – Tonight
04 – Luvcat – He’s My Man (live in Cologne)
05 – Honeyglaze – Turn Out Right
06 – Matt Maltese – Please Don’t Kill Me
07 – Opus Kink – Thank You Satan
08 – Lambrini Girls – Big Dick Energy (live in Seattle)
09 – Warmduscher – YAKUZA
10 – TTSSFU – Upstairs
11 – Hamish Hawk – Burning Up
12 – Wunderhorse – Rain (live)
Vinyl Two
01 – Antony Szmierek – Independent Venue Week Poem
02 – Friedberg – Haha
03 – HotWax – Chip My Teeth (live at Rough Trade East)
04 – Getdown Services – AONB
05 – Gurriers – Approachable (Chris.W.Ryan. version)
06 – Nova Twins – Monsters (live)
07 – cumgirl8 – Goblin
08 – The Oozes – The Entertainer
09 – Los Bitchos – Turkish Delight
10 – Oracle Sisters – Wait For Me
11 – English Teacher – Yorkshire Tapas
12 – mary in the junkyard – ghost (demo)
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