The Bar Stool Preachers Announce New Album “Above The Static”

Brighton, UK punks The Bar Stool Preachers have announced their brand new full length, Above The Static, will be released on the 31st March via Pure Noise Records, the band have also released the first single and video from the new album, All Turned Blue. The Bar Stool Preachers will be doing a headline tour around the UK to celebrate the release of the album with tickets on sale now.

“This is a song for lovers, a song for shared lives and a song that tells the truth about the grey area between hearts. All Turned Blue epitomises the ever present conflict that comes with falling in love and growing up. Catchy, relatable and heartfelt, it’s a story about making hard decisions, moving out and staying true to yourself – all set to a tune that will move your feet and stick in your head for days. As we walk through life, we pick up responsibilities and if we’re lucky, people, along the way. When we love those people, sometimes that love changes us.” (frontman Tom McFaull)

With help from some talented friends including Kevin Bivona (The Interrupters), Ted Hutt (Dropkick Murphys / Flogging Molly) and Ben Hannah (Nosebleed), the band are back bringing you their latest collection of chest-pumping, fist-raising, soul-saving songs, in their unique brand of party music. The album is called Above the Static and whilst being a collection of raucous rock and roll, dancing ska and huge heartfelt punk anthems, it’s also a lifeline to anyone else who feels like they’re drowning in static in the modern age.

The twelve songs that make up The Bar Stool Preachers‘ stunning third full-length were only supposed to be ideas, a guide to what the actual album would and could later become. So in April 2021, together with producer Ben Hannah, the Brighton-based band set up camp at The Waterloo, a three-story pub/venue in the Northern seaside town of Blackpool, to begin the process that would lead to the process of making an album. But when they listened to Flatlined, the first song they committed to tape there, it dawned on them that it actually sounded like the finished product.

“We went in there with the idea of getting demos, We took a recording desk and everything we could fit in the car with us because we wanted to mess around and dial in a sound. But as soon as we recorded that first song, Ben and I just looked at each other and went ‘This sounds massive enough to be the real thing.’ We were there for about two-and-a-half weeks in total. The pub was closed because of Covid, so it was just us and Fletch (the owner). We’d go to bed for a few hours, wake up, the first person up would put the coffee on and press play on whatever we’d recorded the night before. We just lived it fully. We couldn’t re-record this album if we tried.” (Tom McFaull)