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Getdown Services share reflective new single ‘Chrysalis’
The Bristol band’s new EP - entitled ‘Primordial Slot Machine’ - is due for release on 6th June.
Getdown Services have released a brand new single titled ‘Chrysalis’, the latest to be lifted from their forthcoming EP ‘Primordial Slot Machine’ (due out on 6th June via Breakfast Records).
The new EP will see childhood best friends - Josh Law and Ben Sadler - share six new tracks which cover their witty take on modern life in Britain. What’s more, ‘Primordial Slot Machine’ will also be released on vinyl, alongside 2024’s ‘Your Medal’s In The Post’ EP.
Picking up where their last project left off, ‘Chrysalis’ follows ‘Eat Quiche, Sleep, Repeat’ to be our second preview of ‘Primordial Slot Machine’, and is, according to Josh, “about a specific feeling I get when I realise my circumstances might have improved but my mood hasn’t really caught up.”
Continuing, he explains: “It’s about realising the ways in which we can be hard wired to seek out stress and misery without even realising it. You need to remind yourself to enjoy your achievements because the chances are your natural reaction will be to downplay or see the worst in them. It’s also about the confusion of finding yourself being self destructive when things do start to go well in your life.
“As well as this, it’s got a reference to a scene from Don’t Tell The Bride we both really like. A bloke books a Las Vegas wedding and spends all the budget on the stag do so the bride to be’s family can’t afford to come and she’s absolutely fuming at him in the airport whilst he’s nagging her for a hug. Very funny.”
You can listen to ‘Chrysalis’ here:
The band have a huge summer ahead, with festival sets at the likes of Glastonbury and End of the Road, after just playing The Great Escape, Wide Awake and Live at Leeds. They will also be embarking on a UK headline tour, including their biggest gig to date at Islington Assembly Hall on 10th November.
You can find all of the band’s forthcoming tour dates below:
MAY 2025
28, Crookes Social Club, Sheffield, UK
29, The Dome, London, UK SOLD OUT
30, Dauwpop Festival, Hellendoorn, Netherlands
31, Vestrock Festival, Hulst, Netherlands
JUNE 2025
01, Maifield Derby Festival, Mannheim, Germany
06, Le Pub (SOLD OUT), Newport, UK
07, CWRW Festival, Carmarthen, UK
12, Bergenfest, Bergen, Norway
21, Café Glocksee Sommerfest, Hannover, Germany
23, Bumann & Sohn, Cologne, Germany
24, Aalhaus, Hamburg, Germany
25, Neue Zukunft, Berlin, Germany SOLD OUT
26, Fusion Festival, Larz, Germany
29, Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK
JULY 2025
03, Bergtattfestivalen, Luster, Norway
05, Weekend Rumble Festival, Usk, UK
17, Valkhof Festival, Nijmegen, Netherlands
27, Clarence Park Festival, Wakefield, UK
AUGUST 2025
02, Absolutely Free Festival, Genk, Belgium
08, Øya Natt, Oslo, Norway
22, Maui Festival, Norfolk, UK
24, Victorious Festival, Portsmouth, UK
28, End of The Road Festival, Dorset, UK
29, Psych Fest, Brighton, UK
30, Psych Fest, Manchester, UK
30, Bosfest, Burnham On Sea, UK
31, Psych Fest, Edinburgh, UK
SEPTEMBER 2025
12, Plissken Festival, Athens, Greece
13, Poplar Festival, Trento, Italy
14, Leffingeleuren Festival, Leffinge, Belgium
15, VERA, Groningen, Netherlands
20, Siroco, Madrid, Spain
21, Dabadaba, San Sebastian, Spain
23, ZDB, Lisbon, Portugal
OCTOBER 2025
11, Here’s The Thing Festival, Tilburg, Netherlands
17, Town Festival, Halifax, UK
NOVEMBER 2025
10, Islington Assembly Hall, London, UK
11, Arts Club Loft, Liverpool, UK
12, Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK
13, The Georgian Theatre, Stockton, UK
14, Mono, Glasgow, UK
15, Mash House, Edinburgh, UK
17, Tooth & Claw, Inverness, UK
18, Tunnels, Aberdeen, UK
19, Beat Generator LIVE!, Dundee, UK
20, Pop Recs, Sunderland, UK
21, Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, UK
22, Tin Music & Arts, Coventry, UK
24, Ulster Sports Club, Belfast, UK
25, Roisin Dubh, Galway, Ireland
26, Button Factory, Dublin, Ireland
DECEMBER 2025
01, Goethebunker, Essen, Germany
02, Lido, Berlin, Germany
03, RUST, Copenhagen, Denmark
06, Ilses Erika, Leipzig, Germany
07, Import Export, Munich, Germany
08, Bad Bonn, Düdingen, Switzerland
09, Trabendo, Paris, France
11, Le Grand Mix, Tourcoing, France
12, Botanique Orangerie, Brussels, Belgium
JANUARY 2026
09, Trinity Centre, Bristol, UK
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