English Roses From Burr Island Look Best When Grown Alongside Exotic Versions

Burr Island
English Roses
West Country
 
Since their recent high-flying release Nunney Town, West Country duo Burr Island return with English Roses. A rock n roll staple with a classic feel already, their previous track was snapped up by BBC Radio 2. Recorded at Devon’s Kundalini Studio and produced by Steve Cradock, the same from Ocean Colour Scene Paul Weller, and The Specials credit, this new offering takes a more political edge. The band delve into the xenophobia that they found while growing up in small towns. Other cultures lead to other behaviours, and these can be signals for our subconscious mind to be aware. This is natural and probably useful but treating people differently because of where they’re from is how tensions are fostered. When stranger danger becomes stranger degradation then the scene is set for disaster. If people are genuinely anxious of new faces, they need to be comforted and given time. Let’s see what Burr Island have to say about it with English Roses.
 
Beautiful picked acoustic guitar tones spill out from the intro. A duet of vocals breaks forward to design a melancholy nostalgia in lyrical form. Silken tones harmonise over the story about the past. The tale turns to the sharing of time with a neighbour who only grows English Roses. Refusing to see the beauty in the other breeds, the neighbour is filled with hate. A statement about the moral stance of being welcoming to other cultures, sometimes the weeds in our garden are what the natural economy is begging for.

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TOUR DATES:

Supporting Ocean Colour Scene

18/8/23- Margate- Dreamland

20/8/23- Bexhill- De la Warr Pavilion

24/8/23- Halifax- New Victoria Theatre

03/12/23- Bournemouth- o2 Academy

04/12/23- Bristol- Beacon

07/12/23- Belfast- Telegraph

08/12/23- Dublin- Olympia

09/12/23- Dublin- Olympia

11/12/23- Liverpool- University (Mountford Hall)

12/12/23- Sheffield- o2 Academy

14/12/23- Norwich- UEA

15/12/23- Wolverhampton- The Halls

16/12/23- London- Eventim Apollo

18/12/23- Glasgow- o2 Academy

19/12/23- Glasgow- o2 Academy

20/12/23- Glasgow- o2 Academy