Michael Monroe Announces New Album 'One Man Gang'
- by Cameron Arndt
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Former Hanoi Rocks frontman Michael Monroe has announced his new solo album which will be released on 18th October via Silver Lining Music.
The record is said to contain all the hallmarks that have made the Finnish musician's career so far so colourful: it's "all about the fun of Friday nights, seven days a week, letting your hair down (or up!) for a dirty, dangerous, damn good time, and embracing a total escape into the rock‘n’roll dream."
The 12 song album was recorded and mixed by Petri Majuri at E-Studio in Sipoo, Finland over three weeks in March 2018, and produced by Monroe himself with bandmates Rich Jones and Steve Conte.
The lead single, and title track, has just been released along with a comic-book inspired lyrics video. The song is typically brash, with gritty vocals and dirty guitars it blasts along at high tempo with bags of swagger and enthusiasm. It also features one of the album's special guests, Captain Sensible of The Damned. Check out the video .be">here.
“It sometimes seems like everybody’s pissing on their own parade,” says Monroe of the title track, “whether that’s voting stupid people into power and then complaining about them or whatever, but I’m all about living with a P.M.A. – positive mental attitude – and I’ll never allow myself to be forced away from that.”
Along with Captain Sensible, the album includes guest appearances by Nasty Suicide (lead guitar on ‘Wasted Years’), Eicca Toppinen (cello on ‘Low Life In High Places’) and Tero Saarti (trumpet on ‘Heaven Is A Free State’).
Elsewhere Monroe salutes the country of Japan on "Last Train To Tokyo" and explains:
In the ‘80s, Hanoi Rocks had a very special relationship with Japan, and it will always be one of my favourite countries. Plus, they still live for rock ‘n’ roll as it should be celebrated, they still have physical product, they still make it crazy, exhausting and really exciting every time you go there, which I am really grateful for."
ONE MAN GANG TRACK LISTING:
- 1. One Man Gang
- 2. Last Train To Tokyo
- 3. Junk Planet
- 4. Midsummer Nights
- 5. The Pitfalls Of Being An Outsider
- 6. Wasted Years
- 7. In The Tall Grass
- 8. Black Ties And Red Tape
- 9. Hollywood Paranoia
- 10. Heaven Is A Free State
- 11. Helsinki Shakedown
- 12. Low Life In High Places
Available on CD, Coloured Vinyl, Digital formats and as special D2C editions, pre-order live as of Aug 9th
BAND LINE-UP:
Michael Monroe - vocals, sax and harmonica
Rich Jones - guitar and vocals
Steve Conte - guitar and vocals
Sami Yaffa - bass
Karl Rockfist - drums
Monroe will also be taking the album on the road starting in August with a truly epic tour which criss-crosses Europe as well as making a foray to Japan.
2019 TOUR DATES:
Aug 02 Sieravuori Eura, Finland
Aug 03 Kaisla Tampere, Finland
Aug 10 Vesileppis Hotel Leppävirta, Finland
Aug 16 Summer Sonic Tokyo, Japan
Aug 18 Summer Sonic Osaka, Japan
Oct 22 John Dee Live Club & Pub Oslo, Norway
Oct 23 Pustervik Gothenburg, Sweden
Oct 24 Fryshuset Klubben Stockholm, Sweden
Oct 25 High Voltage Rock Club Copenhagen, Denmark
Oct 26 HeadCRASH Hamburg, Germany
Oct 27 FRANNZ Club Berlin, Germany
Oct 29 La Maroquinerie Paris, France
Oct 30 02 Academy Islington London, United Kingdom
Nov 01 Brudenell Social Club Leeds, United Kingdom
Nov 02 The Craufurd Arms Wolverton, United Kingdom
Nov 03 Engine Rooms Southhampton, United Kingdom
Nov 04 The Mill, Digbeth Birmingham, United Kingdom
Nov 05 The Garage Glasgow, United Kingdom
Nov 06 Manchester Club Academy Manchester, United Kingdom
Nov 07 The Fleece Bristol, United Kingdom
Nov 08 The Sugarmill Stoke-on-trent, United Kingdom
Nov 09 Hard Rock Hell Chapter XIII Vauxhall Holiday Park, Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom
For more info visit:
https://www.facebook.com/michaelmonroeofficial
https://twitter.com/michaelmonroe
https://www.instagram.com/michaelmonroeofficial
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