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Pit Pony release new single ‘Well Well’

Newcastle’s Pit Pony share their brand new single and video ‘Well Well’ released via Clue Records and EMI North. Inspired by a moment of literary discovery in Katie Atkinson’s ‘A God In Ruins’, it dives into the unique experience of staring death in the face. Channelling the rawness of the North East, the track captures their imprint of punchy, commanding alt rock and takes it to new heights.

The accompanying video for ‘Well Well’ is a playful portrayal of the monotonous routines and seemingly never ending to-do list that comes with parenthood, a sense of humour that vocalist Jackie Purver relates to as a mother juggling her day job alongside being a musician.

She comments, “As an emerging artist, you don’t have many conversations about parenthood or often second guess doing so. You’re working towards goals like getting a booking agent, manager or label, who at the end of the day need to put food on their tables and are inevitably thinking ‘how much money can I make out of this band if they can only go on tour and be away from home for a couple of days tops at a time’. I remember reading an article by Emmy the Great where she talked openly and proudly about taking her baby on tour, and it was so refreshing to see her embrace motherhood without feeling the need to sacrifice her music goals. Sometimes it feels like there’s an unwritten rule that women in music aren’t allowed to get old and have children, and that’s one of the reasons why we wanted to do this video – the more we talk about being mothers the better, because it is obviously a massive lived experience and should be normalised”.

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