“The Chain Links” – music by Steve Hinds, Morgan Condon, Drew Thompson, Matthew Eyre
Lyrics by Steve Hinds
Recorded at Lightship 95
Produced and mixed by David Holmes
The video was shot on location in five hours in the beautiful Asylum Chapel in Peckham, South East London. “It features a curious relationship between two priests and a performance they devise for their favorite band,” says Steve Hinds.
“This song uses the familiar patterns of an abusive personal relationship as a prism through which to view the ancient dynamic between an entitled elite, and the majority forever in tow,” says Hinds.
Motorcycle Display Team is a trio that had ventured across Europe live many times, sharing a clarion call to the perils of the status quo via churning, masticating power chords, twisting, debonair rhythms, and sweetly sung sneered and snarled vocals deliver wickedly charming, insouciant lyrics. Best described as “Arch Rock” it merges the best of hard-edged anthems with unexpected, adventurous thrills.
After releasing a bevy of EPs and albums for the past several years, the 10 new songs on album WEREMAN address being pissed off at the shoddy state of democracy in the United Kingdom and the United States, with the former being dragged out of the EU for no benefit; it ingeniously attacks the deterioration of polite discourse in our mutual current cultures.
Lead singer Steve Hinds evokes many of the best ranters from classically expressive bands with a firebrand message entwining gutter and the best of glam, abed a crisp flow of melodic hooks and turbulent grooves from drummer Morgan Condon and bass from Matthew Eyre, along with Drew Thompson. Throughout, MDT focally bases its sound on Condon’s speeding engine-like drums, with the vocals and guitar/bass jostling and toggling around the top in formation.
The title “WEREMAN” is described by the band as a “savage beast that only reveals its humanity once a month. An atavistic creature that plays an outsize role in our current social and political narrative.”
Hinds is from Bletchley via Catford, SE London, adding guitars, kazoo and piano; Dublin to Southend-on-Sea’s Condon also assists vocally; and Eyre is from New Zealand by Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The album also features the trumpet of Thomas Risley.
Produced by David Holmes, WEREMAN was recorded by the band at Lightship 95 Studio on a lighthouse boat on the river Thames. Holmes also contributed guitars and synths to the full-length.
Motorcycle Display Team’s album, WEREMAN, will be released on October 7th 2022.
