Following the reveal of new single ‘He’s My Man’, Luvcat has today announced a new headline shows in Manchester, Brighton and London for November 2024. Tickets are on sale at 10am on Wednesday 18th September, available here.
Alongside this, Luvcat has been added to the line-up for Live At Leeds, whilst the London show forms part of the acclaimed Great Escape First Fifty series.
A murder ballad about a bored housewife slowly poisoning her husband with arsenic, ‘He’s My Man’ is a cinematic follow-up to Luvcat’s debut release, ‘Matador’, which has seen snowballing popularity since coming out earlier this year and marks the arrival of an artist with big plans for the year ahead.
“I guess the crux of the song is about how love often goes hand in hand with obsession,” Luvcat says of the track. “It wasn’t supposed to be the second single but a video of us playing the song drunkenly one night in soho went mad online so we had to rush a recording out with a twisted music video to match.”
Raised in Liverpool but made somewhere between the South London pub circuit and the underground clubs of Paris, Luvcat is a project which sees generation-spanning influences [ref. her The Cure-inspired moniker] coalescing with noirish mystique, twisted romance and chic à la parisienne aesthetics. The live ensemble is completed by a band of close friends that Luvcat has met along her journey thus far, each of whom leave their own mark on the project’s musical output.
From the first moment that candid footage of Luvcat’s early pub shows found its way online, there was a palpable sense that something of note was brewing here.
Once inaugural single ‘Matador’ officially entered the world on the final day of May 2024, the organic, cultish community cultivating around the project were already filling grassroots venues on both sides of the UK’s North-South divide. Luvcat’s recent show at Hackney’s Paper Dress Vintage sold out in 4 minutes and hit capacity before being threatened with closure due to the volume of bodies [including not one, but two of her ex-lovers] sneaking in through the back door for a glimpse of the performance.
This summer, Luvcat sold out a headline performance at Liverpool’s Kazimier Garden (also in a matter of minutes) and made her London festival debut at All Points East. October will see her returning to Paris – the city of Luvcat’s first ever show – for Supersonic, before a spot at Tokyo’s Rockin’on Sonic Festival comes in January, where she will share the stage with Pulp, St Vincent and Primal Scream. More show announcements, both headline and support, are arriving in the near future.
Listeners of Radio 1 in recent weeks (where ‘Matador’ has seen regular airtime as introducing tune of week) and BBC 6music (where Huw Stephens, Lauren Laverne and Emily Pilbeam have supported) will already be familiar with the rumour that Luvcat took an early leave from education to run away with the circus. This was to be a sign of things to come in regards to the headstrong sense of adventure which saw her touring with The Waterboys as a teenager and – in another chapter entirely – took her to the velvet-upholstered hotel suites of Paris, adorned with forays to the Moulin Rouge and a short stop in the back of a Parisian Police car.
