DITZ – ”Never Exhale” Album Launch Live Out Store Show

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Join us at the Staggeringly Good Brewerys ‘House Of Rapture’ as we celebrate Ditz incredible new album ”Never Exhale” with a special live performance outside of the shop. 

 

Thursday 30th January 2025.

Doors 7:00pm – On Stage TBC

Age Limit 16+

 

This show will be held at Staggeringly Good Brewery, Southsea – Portsmouth (See Map HERE )

 

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ALL TICKETS WILL BE ELECTRONIC. Please select ‘Click & Collect’ at the checkout or you will be charged for postage.

 

Ticket Bundles will be an album purchase on any format, one per person per entry

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General Admission strictly one per person per entry

 

All formats will be collected at the shop. Your order confirmation will act as your ticket.

 

We’ll send more entry details nearer to the time of the show.

 

*Please select ‘click & collect’ if you don’t want this item posted*

 

*Select ticket bundle options from the pull down menu*

 

£35.99 – Dinked Edition #317 & Entry

 

£29.99 – Pink LP & Entry

 

£27.99 – Black LP & Entry

 

£16.99 – CD & Entry

 

£12  – General Admission (One Per Person)

 

This is an ‘outstore show’, designed to encourage purchasing physical copies of the new album.

 

Each copy you purchase, will be ‘chart’ scanned by us in the shop and will help the artist reach a high chart position. 

 

This has many benefits for the band, and means that as a fan – you helped contribute to that success!

 

As a record shop, we want to encourage the culture of buying physical music and also means we can host more of these amazing intimate shows!

 

More about the new album below….

 

‘Never exhale’ is the sound of a band that hasn’t stopped for a breath. DITZ have toured relentlessly since the release of their first album ‘The Great Regression’. The songs that form their newest offering were written across Europe, often on off days and in borrowed rehearsal rooms. 

 

It could be said that the band treat recording and release of music as an afterthought. Often playing songs live years before their release, tweaking them as they go. The songs on the final record may change before they are ever heard as part of the album. 

 

‘Never Exhale’ was largely recorded at Holy Mountain studios in London during a freezing cold January. The process was frought with obstacles, the original plan, to go and record in Rhode Island, was abandoned when DITZ were offered a support tour with IDLES, although the album was still mixed by the originally intended engineer, Seth Manchester (Model/Actriz, Lingua Ignota, Big Brave). The result is an album hardened by the pressure of its own making. Laboured but not loved. 

 

The album themes reveal themselves more on further listens. The opening gambit taxi man is an exploration into what it would be like to weigh up your impact of the world. The eponymous taxi man could be seen as a St Peter type figure. 

  Further on the album explores themes of unnecessary hatred and division, Space/Smile and It smells like something died in here, aging, Senor Siniestro and the separation of the physical from reality, The Body As A Structure. It’s political, but ultimately personal. More Genet or Kafka than Orwell or Huxley. 

 

Sonically the album has its roots in the usual DITZ influences, classic noise rock such as The Jesus Lizard or Shellac, or the obtuse post punk of the Fall, but also brings in fresh influences. The closing track Britney, could be compared to Radiohead or Mogwai. Overall the album is a clear development from their first effort. A sign of things to come.

 

TRACKLISTING
Side A V70  Taxi Man  Space/Smile  Senor Siniestro  Four	Side B God on A Speed Dial  Smells Like Something Died In Here  18 Wheeler  The Body As A Structure  Britney