Palma Violets Reveal Video For ‘Step Up For The Cool Cats’

The second single from the hotly anticipated Palma Violets’ debut, ‘180’ - named after the studio where they spent their days and nights partying - has been around for long enough now to have wormed its way into your brains and set up home there already. But now it’s making a play for your eyes as well, with the newly released video.

Directed by former-member-of-The-Jesus-And-Mary-Chain-turned-filmaker, Douglas Hart, who’s previously directed videos for the likes of The Horrors, The Libertines, The Stone Roses and Primal Scream, the video sees the band driving around in their car, interspersed with some pretty live footage.



Fully fledged members of ‘DIY’s Class Of 2013’, Palma Violets may have only formed last year, but they’ve already been on the ‘BBC Sound Of’ long list, toured with Savages and label mates Alabama Shakes, and are currently completing a quick North American tour.

The band, who recently announced five UK shows for March, have finished recording their new record with Pulp’s Steve Mackey and Rory Attwell.

The ’180’ tracklisting is:

1. Best of Friends
2. Step Up for the Cool Cats
3. All the Garden Birds
4. Rattlesnake Highway
5. Chicken Dippers
6. Last of the Summer Wine
7. Tom the Drum
8. Johnny Bagga’ Donuts
9. We Found Love
10. Three Stars
11. 14

You can catch the band on the following dates as part of the NME tour, with Peace, Miles Kane and Django Django:

FEBRUARY
07 O2 Academy, Newcastle
08 Academy 1, Manchester
09 O2 Academy, Leeds
11 O2 Academy, Glasgow
12 Rock City, Nottingham
13 O2 Academy, Liverpool
15 UEA, Norwich
16 O2 Academy, Birmingham
17 Great Hall, Cardiff
19 O2 Academy, Bristol
20 O2 Academy, Bournemouth
21 Dome, Brighton
23 O2 Brixton Academy, London

And those March headline dates are:

MARCH
19 Exeter Lemon Grove
20 Cambridge Junction
21 Sheffield Queens Social Club
24 Middlesbrough Empire
26 Oxford O2 Academy

‘180’ will be released on 25th February via Rough Trade Records.