Divorce have released a new single, ‘O Calamity’

Divorce have shared new single ‘O Calamity’, their first new music since the release of their debut album ‘Drive to Goldenhammer’ in March.

The track follows a busy period for the Nottingham quartet and former Dork cover stars, who have recently completed a sold-out UK tour including their largest headline show at London’s KOKO. The band have also made their Glastonbury Festival debut, performing on both the Greenpeace and BBC Introducing stages.

“O Calamity was written 6 years ago, I recall the vocals for the first verse and chorus came into my head during a shift at the bar I was working at, a pretty standard way that songwriting starts for me even still,” explains co-vocalist and guitarist Tiger Cohen-Towell.

“Felix and I were performing under a different alias then, so we finished and arranged it together. We always thought it was a beautiful song and kept it in our pile of material, but didn’t include it on the album simply because of how long ago it had been written. This feels like a good time to stop hanging onto it, so here it is; a snapshot of our past written by the two of us, scarcely more than teenagers at the point of creation. It feels like an absolute world away, but good songs never get old.”

The dates in full read:

JULY
25 Deer Shed Festival, UK

AUGUST
2 Humber Street Sesh, Kingston Upon Hill, UK
3 Kendall Calling, Penrith, UK
8 Ypsigrock Festival, Castelbuono, IT
17 Greenman Festival, Crickhowell, UK
22 York Barbican, York, UK^
23 Mountford Hall, Liverpool, UK^
24 All Points East, London, UK

SEPTEMBER
17 The Rockwell, Somerville, MA, USA
18 Elsewhere Zone 1, Kings County, NY, USA
19 Pie Shop, Washington, DC, USA
20 MilkBoy, Philadelphia, PA, USA
22 The Sound Garage, Toronto, ON, CA
25 Schubas, Chicago, IL, USA
27 Baba Yaga, Seattle, WA, USA
29 Brick & Mortar Music Hall, San Francisco, CA, USA

OCTOBER
2 Gold-Diggers, Los Angeles, CA, USA

NOVEMBER
28 La Belle Angele, Edinburgh, UK
29 The Grove, Newcastle, UK

DECEMBER
3 The Globe, Cardiff, UK
4 Papillon, Southampton, UK
5 Arts Centre, Norwich, UK
6 The Lido, Margate, UK
9 Crookes Social Club, Sheffield, UK
10 Academy 2, Manchester, UK
11 Trinity Centre, Bristol, UK
13 Rock City, Nottingham, UK

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