Man/Woman/Chainsaw announce series of August instore dates
Man/Woman/Chainsaw today share another ambitious single, Get Up and Dance. It's the first to feature Emmie-Mae Avery on lead vocals and the fourth song now to land from their much-anticipated debut album "Cannonball", coming on 7th August on Fiction Records, home to The Cure, St. Vincent, The Horrors and Billie Marten amongst others.
The album will be available on eco-mix black vinyl, a limited edition berry coloured LP with signed insert and a Rough Trade exclusive blue & clear splatter edition LP paired with a bonus 7" available nowhere else.
In support of the album, the band have also announced a series of live in-store dates across the country (buy tickets HERE)
Man/Woman/Chainsaw InStore Appearances
7th August - Rough Trade East, London
8th August - Resident Records, Brighton
9th August - Fighting Cocks, Kingston
10th August - Rough Trade, Bristol
11th August - Rough Trade, Nottingham
12th August - Rough Trade, Liverpool
13th August - Wax and Beans, Bury
Get Up and Dance brings the orchestral dynamics of the band into full flow, as synth and string lines dive and circle in unison. On the themes of the song, according to Emmie-Mae: "In my mind it's set in a club, where you spot someone who’s been trying their luck with different people all night and decide to turn the game back on them. It starts playful but then takes a forceful approach, as you push them to prove their interest and test how far they’ll go, aiming to have them make a fool of themselves."
Another undoubted highlight on a record that is absolutely full of them, Get Up and Dance, along with the rest of "Cannonball", was recorded at RAK Studios with Geordie Greep producer Seth Evans & Margo Broom, who also worked with the band on the pre-album single, and BBC 6 Music playlisted, "Adam & Steve". More recent singles, Only Girl and Nosedive, have both followed suit and been added to that same playlist.
You can listen to Get Up and dance on your preferred platform HERE, and watch the official visualiser below:
Last week the band performed a live session for Steve Lamacq at the station and alongside video excerpts on BBC 6 Music's Instagram, you can listen to the session in full on iPlayer HERE.
Formed at only 16 years old and crafting their songs in a converted vicarage, the bold new single and album follows European dates over the last month and a breakthrough 2025 where the band sold out both London's Scala and an entire UK tour in October, their second sold out tour of the year. They played live sessions for both KEXP and Steve Lamacq at BBC 6 Music and completed a triumphant first trip to Austin for SXSW in the Spring, where Man/Woman/Chainsaw found themselves standing at the very forefront of a new wave of British bands "most likely to".
The 11 songs of "Cannonball" burst forth with pure feeling: grand and exuberant, rich with unconventional structures and world-beating choruses, the long-awaited record making good on the band’s years of hard touring while unearthing new dimensions and unlikely facets in their songwriting. It is a sharp, smart first record, one which presents Man/Woman/Chainsaw exactly as they are right now: one of London’s most promising young bands, coming into their own as fearless experimentalists and vital songwriters. “We were talking about having a whole record of bangers - having everything be really in your face like a Rage Against the Machine record. We soon realised we weren’t Rage Against the Machine and leant into the softer moments of the album which I think has really become a big part of our sound.” says drummer Lola Cherry.
Working with Seth Evans (Geordie Greep, Black Midi) and Margo Broom (Fat White Family, Big Joanie), Man/Woman/Chainsaw landed on a clean, grandiose sound for Cannonball, one befitting their emotional intentions. Its deft, organic blending of theatricality and raw honesty belies its intense level of craft; these songs are razor sharp and evoke the mess and stress of being in one’s teens and early-20s better than almost any other band working today.
"Cannonball" lives up to its name, crash-landing in the centre of London’s experimental scene and surely confirming Man/Woman/Chainsaw as its brightest stars.
“Cannonball” Tracklist
Only Girl
Canyons
Goddamn, Lizard Man!
Lighter
Nosedive
Get Up and Dance
Snakebite
Flick of the Wrist
The Thing
Still Angry
Something Else to Give
“Cannonball” is out on 7th August via Fiction Records and is available to pre-order now HERE.
Man/Woman/Chainsaw will be playing a selection of UK and international festivals across the summer and will be touring the UK and Ireland later in the year in support of the record. Tickets for all shows are on sale now.
Man/Woman/Chainsaw live
Sat 19 Sept – Belfast, UK – Ulster Sports Club
Sun 20 Sept – Dublin, IE – Whelan’s
Tue 22 Sept – Manchester, UK – Gorilla
Wed 23 Sept – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
Thu 24 Sept – Newcastle, UK – The Grove
Fri 25 Sept – Glasgow, UK – King Tut’s
Sat 26 Sept – Sheffield, UK – Float Along Festival
Tue 29 Sept – Guildford, UK – The Boileroom
Wed 30 Sept – Brighton, UK – Concorde 2
Thu 1 Oct – Portsmouth, UK – The Wedgewood Rooms
Fri 2 Oct – Bristol, UK – Thekla
Sat 3 Oct – Cardiff, UK – The Globe
Mon 5 Oct – Nottingham, UK – Rescue Rooms
Tue 6 Oct – Birmingham, UK – Hare & Hounds
Wed 7 Oct – London, UK – Electric Ballroom
