William The Conqueror will play a free gig at Leighton Buzzard’s Black Circle Records later this month.
The Cornish rock/folk band will be playing in support of their new album ‘Bleeding On The Soundtrack.'
The event is also serving as a Record Store Day launch party.
William the Conqueror is the band put together by songwriter Ruarri Joseph, alongside his close musical conspirators Harry Harding (drums) and Naomi Holmes (bass) in the Winter of 2015.
‘Bleeding on the Soundtrack’ is the second album from the band, following the debut ‘Proud Distributor of the Peace’ (2017, Loose), in an abstract biographical trilogy inspired by Hermann Hesse’s book ‘My Belief’ which housed three separate essays on innocence, disillusionment and faith.
In creating William The Conqueror, Joseph has found a vehicle to exorcise demons, and a freedom to draw on a personal history that he’d unconsciously skirted as a solo artist.
The trio’s live performances have a boundless energy and rawness that has been captured on the record with the help of producer Ethan Johns (Ryan Adams, Kings of Leon, Laura Marling, The Jayhawks).
Lifted from the new album is recent single 'Looking for the Cure’, a song about redemption.
It’s raw, laid-bare song-writing but with an acerbic wit and an overall cathartic effect that turns a dark experience into something more hopeful, even joyous.
As frontman Ruarri Joseph expands: “’Looking for the Cure’ started out as a mournful ballad about witnessing the process of recovery from addiction: the tragedy of searching for something that doesn’t exist. Then it dawned on me that if you’re looking, at least it means you’re alive to do so, and that’s a cure in itself.”
William The Conquerer will be live at Black Circle Records from 6.30pm on Thursday, February 28.
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