Photo by Nigel John.
Newcastle based alternative band Pit Pony have released their new single ‘Vacancy’.
Vocalist Jackie Purver talks on the track, “It’s about being dumbfounded by the modern world and social media. My news feed is full of suggested videos of people telling me my life will be better if I buy some leggings or get the ‘off menu’ Starbucks drink. I love an iced coffee as much as the next person but there’s a whole culture of people driving in nice cars drinking coffee and sitting making videos in carparks that I can’t get my head around. I feel like it’s opening a black hole somewhere that we’re all going to be swallowed into – a vacancy – like a Dorian Gray painting on a mass scale. I want to derail it, to take things in a different direction, to make it messy – no more manicures photographed over a BMW steering wheel. I am all for people finding joy where they can but I feel weird at the thought of that being life’s aim and that it’s targeted at young people especially. The song itself is about the repetitive nature of aspiring to things you see in an online video and thinking that’s the pinnacle and buying endless things that an influencer has been paid to sell you. The song spirals as it builds and ends in a cry of frustration at the world.”
You can catch Pit Pony on tour throughout the UK in April, tickets are available now.