Jem Tayle (Shelleyan Orphan) and Boris Williams (The Cure) form Vamberator
Jem Tayle (Shelleyan Orphan) and Boris Williams (The Cure) form Vamberator
Jem Tayle (Shelleyan Orphan) and Boris Williams (The Cure) have founded a new project, Vamberator.
Jem describes the transition from Shelleyan Orphan to Vamberator as follows: “After Caroline Crawley’s passing, I had been offered the chance to make a solo album. I had been writing on and off without a focus and not having someone to bounce off was new to me. Boris is family, and we have played together with Shelleyan Orphan live and in the studio on and off for years, so it felt very natural for us to work on this together. I am extremely fortunate to have a drummer of his calibre pounding out the rhythms on this album.”
Vamberator’s debut single, “Sleep the Giant of Sleeps” is from the forthcoming album “Age of Loneliness” (Unifaun Productions), and also features regular collaborator Charlie Jones (Goldfrapp, The Cult, Robert Plant et al) on bass.
Asked to describe the themes and inspirations behind the new single, Jem says: “Chasing trains, chasing dogs, chasing dreams, they always get away. Pushing your way through that froth on a daydream, sharing the gloom with ghouls and procrastinating – it’s all part of the daily merry-go-round. But there is always an unseen presence that comes to the rescue, sometimes in dreams, sometimes in the middle of the night as you cool yourself in front of that open fridge. It’s relentless though, and here it comes again, but there’s so much to do, but close your eyes and there she is again.”
“Sleep the Giant of Sleeps” by Vamberator is out now from Bandcamp, Spotify, and all the usual digital music stores worldwide.
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