Rising indie-pop sensation, Anteros, have released a brand new track ‘Call Your Mother’ and announced details of their UK tour ‘DIY Presents’. The quartet are set to hit the road this October, the tour will see the foursome play seven shows around the UK, including their biggest headline performance to date, at London’s Garage.
The London based four-piec, is made up of Laura Hayden fronts the band on vocals, Joshua Rumble is on bass, Charles Monneraud is on guitar, and Harry Balazs is on drums, kick off their tour on the 10th of October in Brighton and are set to conclude their tour on the 17th of October in Nottingham.
“We love to disguise sadness behind happy songs. If you’re sad, the best medicine is laughter, so we like and have fun with our songs, regardless of the subject matter. We call it Bitter Dream Pop,” says frontwomen Hayden.
Before coming together as a quartet and doing this in the big time and not just in their spare time, the band all had other careers: Hayden, who is trilingual, is a former MTV Spain presenter and occasional DJ while Rumble does graphic design, guitarist Charles Monneraud used to work in McDonald’s and is now a session musician, and drummer Harry Balazs was formerly a consultant sound engineer for Iranian weddings.
They are now going from strength to strength: they were one of Annie Mac’s New Names for 2016 and were invited to open on the Other Stage at Glastonbury. One of their tracks, ‘The Beat’, was Radio 1’s single of the week.
“We’re trying to focus on taking everything one step at a time. We said at the beginning of last summer we wanted to sort of take everything as it comes and just focus on the present and actually try and enjoy it, instead of being paranoid about what’s going to be happening in the future. I think that’s our approach to music, just do that and not try and follow trends – ‘cause I think once you get caught up in that, you just lose the authenticity of the band really,” Hayden says, speaking about the band’s growing popularity.
10/10/2018 – Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar – Brighton
11/10 – The Garage – London
12/10 – Rough Trade – Bristol
14/10 – Soup Kitchen – Manchester
15/10 – King Tut’s – Glasgow
16/10 – The Wardrobe – Leeds
17/10 – Rough Trade – Nottingham
