TV Priest - Runner Up

  "It's like The Fall"

  "Now it's like Nick Cave"  

  Just a couple of comments from the folk in the chatroom on this week's Just Some Punk Songs show and it's hard to argue with them as when listening to the 2nd single from London post-punks TV Priest (https://www.facebook.com/TVPriest/) they seem to be obvious influences on vocalist Charlie Drinkwater. As well as Charlie, the band also features Alex Sprogis (guitars), Nic Smith (bass/keyboard) and Ed Kelland (drums).

  Their debut single, House Of York (https://orcd.co/house-of-york) was released earlier this year and caused enough of a buzz that they're now being hyped up by the likes of BBC Radio 6, the NME and Idles frontman Joe Talbot. They're getting so much positive press that it seems a bit like pissing into the ocean featuring them on here but the new single is so good that it's hard not to add my voice to the tumult.

  Insistent drums, meandering and squealing guitars and stream of consciousness style lyrics all combine to make a heady brew. This is a band with a big future and this song is titled Runner Up. Get it here : https://tvpriest.bandcamp.com/track/runner-up

Park that car
And pull yourself out
Behind the curtain lies
Your 20% off as it turns out
The sleeping God
Inner dreams does things at great speed
Does things at great speed
The sleeping God
Sees only flashing lights
On a, on a checkout screen

There was
There was
Scribbled on a temple wall

Here’s what you could have won
Here’s, here’s what you could have won
Here’s what you could have won
Here’s, here’s what you could have won

A lifetime supply of washing powder and mid range appliances
“Boiling the kettle, now there’s a distraction” said Adam to Eve as she bit the apple
Keep the conveyor rolling, keep that conveyor rolling, keep that conveyor rolling

And there was
Scribbled
Scribbled on a temple wall
It said…

Here’s what you could have won
Here’s, here’s what you could have won
Here’s what you could have won
Here’s, here’s what you could have won

I don’t wanna dance at the Christmas party
I got bigger nails to nail
I queue up outside, dark Britannic Mills, dark Britannic Mills
New Model be a winner ‘cos this battery won’t keep going on forever
New plastic wave, and lines on the calendar like a multi-national ticking over

And scribbled,
Scribbled somewhere
On the side of a temple wall
It said
It said
Here’s what you could have won
Here’s, here’s what you could have won