Tindersticks reveal new "Were We Once Lovers?" video, announce Rough Trade show/Q&A

07 January 2016, 15:00 | Written by Laurence Day

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Tindersticks have shared their new visuals for latest single "Were We Once Lovers?" and announced an acoustic set/film screening/Q&A at London's Rough Trade.

The new Rough Trade event will take place 22 January at Rough Trade East; there will be similar events this month in New York, Paris, and Brussels.

"Were We Once Lovers?" is taken from upcoming tenth (tenth!) album The Waiting Room, which is also a "collaborative film project".

Speaking about the clip, the band's Stuart A. Staples says:

“I have wanted to make a song with a slap bass for some time, it felt dangerous and proved quite a battle to achieve. Resistance even from within our ranks and I would say Dan McKinna was even shy when first playing it - we had to reassure him that he was among friends. The songs structure was also challenging - calling the chords out as we played / recorded - It gives the song an unpredictability that is at odds with the intense momentum that carries it. And that deep lying nervous energy that only a slap bass could bring.

"In the early '90s Pierre Vinour made an iconic short film called 'Paris - Marseille' - a time lapse view of the journey through a car window condensed into three minutes ending by driving off the edge of France into the sea. When I saw this film I felt an immediate connection with 'Were we once lovers?' - The speed of the journey, but I also felt that the song was speeding through the drivers mind.

"I was pleased that Pierre felt that connection also and he set to work building on this idea. Still, I was still not prepared for the effect the final film had on me. The clenching intensity I felt when making the song was literally doubled. I love it but I cant wait to be released from it, it holds me in this strange limbo.”

The Waiting Room will be released as a limited edition CD/DVD, LP/DVD and clear vinyl LP/DVD via City Slang on 22 January 2016.

The release will be accompanied by a series of live cine-concert events, the dates of which are at the bottom of the page.

Watch "Were We Once Lovers?" below.

The Waiting Room Cine-Concert live events:

April

29 – London, UK @ The Barbican
30 – Coventry, UK @ Warwick Arts Centre*

May

1 – Liverpool, UK @ Liverpool Phil*
2 – Manchester, UK @ Bridgewater Hall*
3 – Edinburgh, UK @ Usher Hall*
4 – Gateshead, UK @ The Sage*
6 – Cambridge, UK @ Corn Exchange*
7 – Bristol, UK @ Colston Hall*

* Music Beyond Mainstream tour