Welsh duo Henry’s Funeral Shoe return with brand-new single ‘Hey!!! (What’s Your Pleasure?)’ on the XXX label.
Formed by the Clifford brothers in 2008, Henry’s Funeral Shoe has been inspired and influenced by many of the albums singer/guitarist Aled Clifford looted from his father’s vinyl collection, such as: The Who, Credence Clearwater Revival, Peter Green, Robert Johnson and The Beatles. His younger brother Brennig started playing drums at nine and at fifteen joined a local band performing covers of classic rock legends, including: The Clash and Thin Lizzy. In 2008 the dexterous brothers joined forces to create some of the loudest soulful rock ’n’ roll to come out the UK in a long time.
Throughout the band’s career, their music has been enthusiastically welcomed by the fans and critically acclaimed by the critics, with Classic Rock describing their last album as “Thumping good music with a timeless sound”, Uncut defining it a “stomping album” and Blues Matters considering the duo “one of the few authentic sounding British blues rock bands”.
Their third record Smartphone Rabbit Hole was released just before the world stopped for covid. Shortly after their mum was diagnosed with a terminal illness and the brothers decided to stop performing live to help take care of her. With things now calmer at home Henry’s Funeral Shoe is ready to get back into their music
Regarding ‘Hey (What’s Your Pleasure)?’ the band commented: “We wanted it to sound like something on a gravediggers playlist. Dark enough to accompany the surroundings, energetic enough to keep you digging and groovy enough to help you dance on the way home.”
The single is accompanied by a music video, directed by Sean Spiteri & Hope Fletch and produced by Addicted To Film that you can check out here at RAMzine.
