Codeine Velvet Club Debut Album release date

Double A-side single - “Hollywood” plus “I Am The Resurrection” - December 28th

Debut Album – “Codeine Velvet Club” – December 28th 
Codeine Velvet Club, the sensational new band featuring chief Fratelli Jon Lawler and Glasgow chanteuse Lou Hickey, will release a new single to coincide with the release of their eponymously titled debut album on December 28th ‘09. Side A will feature album highlight and 21st century wall of sound masterpiece “Hollywood” while the other Side A will feature Codeine Velvet Club’s unique take on the Stone Roses’ classic “I Am The Resurrection”, a song that the band covered for fun as an encore and has since been recorded because so many fans demanded it!
Codeine Velvet Club is a new musical collaboration that celebrates Jon Lawler and Lou Hickey’s shared love of ’60s girl-boy duets, dramatic orchestral pop, and dark post-war Hollywood romanticism. Since their fantastically well reviewed (see press quotes!) debut headline shows in Glasgow at the Classic Grand and at London’s Bush Hall Codeine Velvet Club are heading out on a full UK tour throughout November and December. The full list of shows is:

November

26 - Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms
28 - Glasgow, SECC - Homecoming Festival
29 - Dundee, Doghouse
30 - Aberdeen, Warehouse
December
02 - Inverness, Ironworks
03 - Sunderland Independent
04 - Newcastle 02 Academy 2
05 - Glasgow 02 Academy Club Noir
06 - Sheffield Leadmill Steel Stage
07 - Birmingham, Glee Club

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CODEINE VELVET CLUB: WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

“With his rough bad-boy edges smoothed off by the velvet hand of Glasgow songwriter Lou Hickey, this camply glamorous, jazzy boy-girl duet is no so much ‘Creepin’ Up The Backstairs’ as swishing down the red-carpeted grand staircase.”NME 7 Nov ‘09
“…it marks a definite departure from The Fratellis’ sound…Hickey’s oft-soft voice drips with a noir-ish menace alongside Lawler’s grizzly barks, a delicious contrast in ‘Vanity Kills’ and ‘Time’.  ‘Hollywood’ encapsulates some of the tuxedoed swagger of The Last Shadow Puppets.  Boosted by jazz-club horns and a boozy, burlesque chorus, it captures the mood of this record perfectly: gritty Brit music tainted by soul-sucking Hollywood.”NME 14 Nov ‘09
“…the equal of The Last Shadow Puppets.  Much of this is down to Jon (Fratelli)’s co-vocalist Lou Hickey, a voluptuously voiced latterday Peggy Lee.”MOJO Dec ‘09
“..this outfit oozes class and a sense of fun that is lacking in many other retro-styles projects”. Glasgow Herald – September 17th
“Codeine Velvet Club are what 2009 has been waiting for”. Glasgow Herald September 17th
“…one of the most exciting records of 2009”. Daily Record September 9th
“an album jampacked with everything from a gospel choir to an orchestra…  Throw in a big band, an electric sitar and – honestly – a cow-bell and you’ve got one of the most exciting records of 2009.”  Daily Record 9th Sept ‘09
“Soaring strings, biting brass, sweet as sugar guitar licks and a healthy dose of noir drama….  Add the kind of retro glamour that conjures up late nights in Vegas or Hollywood, stir in the kind of songwriting that oozes class and sophistication then freight in a few world-beating pop hooks.  That’s the recipe for the sensational new sound of Codeine Velvet.”

News Of The World 13th Sept. ‘09
“A whole album of evocative 1960’s tinged music in a collaboration that might give Isobel Campbell’s collaboration with Mark Lanegan some serious competition” Glasgow Herald 15th Sept. 09

“Codeine Velvet Club – Classic Grand Glasgow 5*   It’s the songs that impress most: Lawler’s post T-Rex pop-rock sensibility married to Hickey’s showtune glamour.  From the opener, the hook-laden ‘Hollywood’, there was hardly a dip in the set that concluded with a sensational reworking of The Stone Roses’ ‘I Am The Resurrection’.  Codeine Velvet Club are what 2009 has been waiting for.”  This may well turn out to be one of those evenings where, if everybody who claims they were there actually was, the venue would have had to be the size of Hall 4 at the SECC! Glasgow Herald 17th Sept ‘09
“They conjure up a Sixties-inspired sound that’s equal parts Phil Spector’s teenage symphonies and John Barry’s sharp 007 soundtracks.” News Of The World 20th Sept. ‘09