Man/Woman/Chainsaw – Get Up and Dance
Man/Woman/Chainsaw are back with “Get Up and Dance”, the fourth single from their debut album Cannonball, out August 7 on Fiction Records. It follows Only Girl (W47) and Nosedive (W17), and it’s the first of the album’s singles to hand lead vocals to Emmie-Mae Avery rather than Vera Leppänen. Seth Evans and Margo Broom produced again, the same pairing behind the rest of Cannonball at RAK Studios.
The track opens on a keyboard tone that sounds almost like it’s whistling, thin and a little unsettling, before strings come in and the whole thing widens out. Clio Harwood’s violin lines circle around Avery’s vocal rather than sitting underneath it, and the arrangement keeps adding layers without ever feeling crowded, which has become this band’s whole calling card across three albums’ worth of singles now.
Avery’s take on the song is sharper than the title suggests. She’s described it as a club scene where you spot someone who’s been working the room all night and decide to flip the dynamic on them, starting playful and turning the pressure up until they’re the one left exposed. That tension between the title’s invitation and the lyric’s actual mood is what makes the track work. I wasn’t expecting a song called “Get Up and Dance” to feel this much like a dare.
The band has festival dates through the summer, a run of UK in-store shows tied to the album release, a full UK and Ireland headline tour in the autumn, and their first US headline shows in the fall.
Tour dates:
Europe:
- Jul. 4 / Werchter, Belgium / Rock Werchter Festival
- Jul. 24 / Thirsk, UK / Deer Shed Festival
- Jul. 25 / Southwold, UK / Latitude Festival
- Aug. 7 / London, UK / Rough Trade East
- Aug. 8 / Brighton, UK / Resident
- Aug. 9 / Kingston, UK / Banquet
- Aug. 10 / Bristol, UK / Rough Trade Bristol
- Aug. 11 / Nottingham, UK / Rough Trade Nottingham
- Aug. 12 / Liverpool, UK / Rough Trade Liverpool
- Aug. 13 / Bury, UK / Wax & Beans
- Aug. 27 / Torremolinos, Spain / Canela Party
- Aug. 29 / Paris, France / Rock En Seine
- Sep. 12 / Asten-Heusden, Netherlands / Misty Fields Festival
- Sep. 19 / Belfast, UK / Ulster Sports Club
- Sep. 20 / Dublin, Ireland / Whelan’s
- Sep. 22 / Manchester, UK / Gorilla
- Sep. 23 / Leeds, UK / Brudenell Social Club
- Sep. 24 / Newcastle, UK / The Grove
- Sep. 25 / Glasgow, UK / King Tut’s
- Sep. 26 / Sheffield, UK / Float Along Festival
- Sep. 29 / Guildford, UK / The Boileroom
- Sep. 30 / Brighton, UK / Concorde 2
- Oct. 1 / Portsmouth, UK / The Wedgewood Rooms
- Oct. 2 / Bristol, UK / Thekla
- Oct. 3 / Cardiff, UK / The Globe
- Oct. 5 / Nottingham, UK / Rescue Rooms
- Oct. 6 / Birmingham, UK / Hare & Hounds
- Oct. 7 / London, UK / Electric Ballroom
North America:
- Oct. 29 / New York, NY / Night Club 101
- Nov. 2 / Chicago, IL / Schubas
- Nov. 4 / Los Angeles, CA / The Echo
