PCL Presents
EASY LIFE
Friday, 9 November
Broadcast, Glasgow
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DOORS 7PM
18+ ONLY
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Tickets available via See Tickets: https://www.seetickets.com/event/easy-life/broadcast/1232938 or in person from Tickets Scotland.
Easy Life are a Leicester five-piece whose early material explores that push and pull between the promise of a simpler existence, and the hedonism or temptations which occasionally threaten to get in the way. Singer and front-man Murray first met the band’s bassist and sax player, Sam, at school in the Midlands, where they bonded over a mutual love of early hip-hop, funk and jazz. Having signed up the rest of the band on the local scene, they soon began to write songs as Easy Life, mixing these more transatlantic influences with elements of indie, punk, and the less-exotic realities of rainy middle England (all in-between menial part-time jobs spanning TK Maxx and clinical trials to plucking turkeys or selling potatoes).
The first fruits of this labour proved to be ‘Pockets’, which Easy Life describe as a “93 BPM head-nodder born out of the need to give a middle finger to those people who don’t believe in simplicity, and are only concerned with material wealth and all other vices that have made modern living that little bit less sweet. It essentially documents that terrible sinking feeling of realising you can’t quite afford to pay this month’s rent due to your own stupidity; an unsettling emotion that is unshakable, too familiar and hangs over us like a dead albatross.”
Confident and charismatic, ‘Pockets’ is an instant introduction to an exciting, escapist new band, and a timely reminder that those lives lived fully also rarely come easily.
