# SIMON BROMIDE Presents Debut Solo Album ‘Following The Moon’ and Video for ‘The Skehans Song’

- Link: https://www.nyrdcast.com/simon-bromide-presents-debut-solo-album-following-the-moon-and-video-for-the-skehans-song/
- Published: 2021-12-10T11:00:00-06:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

**London’s Simon Bromide presents debut solo album ‘Following The Moon’ and fun-
loving video for ‘The Skehans Song’**

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Photo by Ant Bradbury

_“Romping, indie-pop blast“_ ~** The Times**

_“Not only is it Impossibly catchy, it’s one of the most literate and affecting 
albums in recent memory… pretty hard to beat”_ ~ **Stereo Embers Magazine**

_“Hits the sonic sweet spot… blending the literate pop-rock craftsmanship of beloved
British icons The Kinks with the propulsive punch and fuzzy crunch of classic American
power-pop” _~** Tinnitist**

_“Catchy, upbeat, well-structured and impeccably delivered”_ ~** Spill Magazine**
_“
A febrile soul who can do pop in many voices” ~ **Melody Maker**

_“Simon Berridge’s voice is as strong as ever, only gaining in sound and fury”_ 
~ **Clash Magazine**

_“Memorable slices of acoustic whimsy” _~ **Q magazine**

_“Ray-Davies-meets-Lloyd-Cole crooning”_ ~ **The Big Issue**

London-based indie rocker [**Simon Bromide**](https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=http%3a%2f%2ftheinternetatemysoul.co.uk%2fbromide.htm&umid=e722ec2e-2343-47b3-81f2-e00686d99a78&auth=65a620fa4b6e2edf0405a6ed61dc7465231096cd-453fd023e0cc211978849ea570696ca07b023e60)**(
aka Simon Berridge) **presents his debut solo album** [‘Following The Moon’](https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fcargorecordsdirect.co.uk%2fproducts%2fsimon%2dbromide%2dfollowing%2dthe%2dmoon&umid=e722ec2e-2343-47b3-81f2-e00686d99a78&auth=65a620fa4b6e2edf0405a6ed61dc7465231096cd-0c937362c6410a57695c084d9277b22ae8d6b2e2)**
and the lively feel-good ode-to-the-pub video for [**‘The Skehans Song’**](https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fsoundcloud.com%2fbromidasaurus%2fsimon%2dbromide%2dthe%2dskehans%2dsong%2dedit&umid=e722ec2e-2343-47b3-81f2-e00686d99a78&auth=65a620fa4b6e2edf0405a6ed61dc7465231096cd-9843435f5d4e65ed1c6695af9229f0676a2c9937),
shot by** Lou Smith** and edited by [**Ben Pollard**](https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.facebook.com%2fbennypvideo%2f&umid=e722ec2e-2343-47b3-81f2-e00686d99a78&auth=65a620fa4b6e2edf0405a6ed61dc7465231096cd-70c73540b9c8fc9952cbf17cbc5563d805ea613f).
Recorded by [**Brian O’Shaughnessy**](https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.allmusic.com%2fartist%2fbrian%2doshaughnessy%2dmn0000519881&umid=e722ec2e-2343-47b3-81f2-e00686d99a78&auth=65a620fa4b6e2edf0405a6ed61dc7465231096cd-2e88f133b4274ba85b7ed4bb3bcbb5c32b88f003)**(
Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine, Beth Orton)**, this long-player is released 
via [**Scratchy Records**](https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.facebook.com%2fscratchyrecords&umid=e722ec2e-2343-47b3-81f2-e00686d99a78&auth=65a620fa4b6e2edf0405a6ed61dc7465231096cd-77602462e7b20566525d447f50885b5850a9956b)****
with distribution by [**Cargo Records**](https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fcargorecordsdirect.co.uk%2fcollections%2fscratchy%2drecords&umid=e722ec2e-2343-47b3-81f2-e00686d99a78&auth=65a620fa4b6e2edf0405a6ed61dc7465231096cd-9df97f4cf63f427a6ef9a41a391101019ce3edab).

Simon Bromide 'The Skehans Song' (Edit)

[⌊Simon Bromide 'The Skehans Song' (Edit)⌉⌊Simon Bromide 'The Skehans
Song' (Edit)⌉
Watch this video on YouTube

**‘The Skehans Song’**

Best known as the frontman of South London indie pop / power pop outfit [**Bromide**](https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.facebook.com%2fbromidebanduk&umid=e722ec2e-2343-47b3-81f2-e00686d99a78&auth=65a620fa4b6e2edf0405a6ed61dc7465231096cd-969c756814174899947a7c1e7b08692c310681ab),‘
Following The Moon’ is Simon’s first album as a solo artist. Earlier, he released
the lead single **[‘The Waiting Room’](https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fyoutu.be%2f%2d%2dv%5fGe747kk&umid=e722ec2e-2343-47b3-81f2-e00686d99a78&auth=65a620fa4b6e2edf0405a6ed61dc7465231096cd-e037e38e0b2a8d9da58c8168284d0c9cd7d496bd)**,
along with an animated video cleverly also created by **Ben Pollard**.

Paying homage to one of South East London’s longest running acoustic nights – [**The Easycome**](https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.facebook.com%2feasycomeskeehans%2f&umid=e722ec2e-2343-47b3-81f2-e00686d99a78&auth=65a620fa4b6e2edf0405a6ed61dc7465231096cd-0304057777800fb9f833fb1fb85d68b32b27165f)****–
a unique fixture in the South-London music scene, this song features the ‘**Easycome
Choir’** with **Andy Hankdog, Scarlett Woolfe **and** Vincent Davies**.

‘The Easycome’ is run by [**Andy Hankdog**](https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=http%3a%2f%2fthegooseisout.com%2fandy%2dhankdog%2f&umid=e722ec2e-2343-47b3-81f2-e00686d99a78&auth=65a620fa4b6e2edf0405a6ed61dc7465231096cd-eb8818a419633071354a625b767f13501a413fb1)(
a.k.a. Hank), whose life has been steeped in rock ‘n’ roll, starting with his father
producing the 60s TV music show ‘Ready Steady Go!’. After the Sex Pistols disbanded,
Hank  joined **Steve Jones** and** Paul Cook **to form **The Professionals**, later
finding success with his band **Hank Dogs** in the late 90s and touring America 
with Joan Baez. Creating a space where music can flourish, his club has hosted the
likes of David Gray, Florence (Welch) Machine, Shingai (Noisettes), The Smoke Faeries,
Lewis Floyd Henry, The Fat White Family and other local scenesters such as Goat 
Girl, Pre-Goblin, Megalash and Misty Miller.

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Photo by Ant Bradbury

“In the 1990s, I used to frequent the Troubadour in Earls Court. This was my introduction
to the curious sport of ‘open mic-ing’. Not exactly a contact sport, but not far-
off. The inevitable dread of waiting to play, the terrible acts, the amazing acts,
the tap on the shoulder ‘I’m sorry, we can’t squeeze you on tonight’, the tea lights,
egos and hushed silence watching pins drop and/or your life slip away and then occasionally
a room full of wild unexpected applause. I remember seeing Hankdog at these nights,
who always mentioned ‘The Easycome’ but it was over the other side of town in Nunhead
and I never ventured over. Then time took me over to SE London and finally about
5 or 6 years ago I started going down regularly on Wednesdays,” says **Simon Berridge**.

“The idea for the song just appeared at the club one day when I started singing 
about some of the regulars.. then the chords arrived and it felt like a fun idea
to write a kind of list song about these characters that went down to watch and 
take part. Similarly when we came to record it we tried to capture the atmosphere
of a sometimes noisy pub with this thing going on in the corner.”

The album also features drummer **Fells Guilherme (Children of The Pope)**, bassist**
Ed ‘Cosmo’ Wright**, multi-instrumentalists **Dave Hale, Dimitri Ntontis** and **
Stephen Elwell**, folk-pop chanteuse **Katy Carr** on piano and **Terry Edwards (
Nick Cave, Tom Waits, P.J.Harvey) **on trumpet. Scottish singer **Julie Anne McCambridge**
joins Simon on the William Blake penned** ‘Earth’s Answer’**.

This is Berridge’s first output since Bromide’s **[‘Ancient Rome’ ](https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fopen.spotify.com%2falbum%2f16qoV3kgkfIuZJsuNKQDGq%3fsi%3dBhfME5FyRliwuNlpVptXSg%26dl%5fbranch%3d1&umid=e722ec2e-2343-47b3-81f2-e00686d99a78&auth=65a620fa4b6e2edf0405a6ed61dc7465231096cd-7b2bff78b36ba10db92488b4188c7ec88e197b20)**
and[** ‘I’ll Never Learn’**](https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.youtube.com%2fwatch%3fv%3dOk89HejHaUw%26t%3d1s&umid=e722ec2e-2343-47b3-81f2-e00686d99a78&auth=65a620fa4b6e2edf0405a6ed61dc7465231096cd-b2371734cc4f25904cd7a639673e82fa4008fe2d)****
singles, both released in 2020. Their most recent album[** ‘I Woke Up’**](https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fopen.spotify.com%2falbum%2f4AhMxzLQbfUBeCaQ9JNOfc%3fsi%3dtRXZfohvR2CwcjyEUt05OA%26dl%5fbranch%3d1&umid=e722ec2e-2343-47b3-81f2-e00686d99a78&auth=65a620fa4b6e2edf0405a6ed61dc7465231096cd-eaecd49ed2a86021ae6675060e3adf5f8d57be36),
with singles [**‘Magic Coins’**](https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fyoutu.be%2fM2k%5fM9pse1M&umid=e722ec2e-2343-47b3-81f2-e00686d99a78&auth=65a620fa4b6e2edf0405a6ed61dc7465231096cd-0c4706991819f7908cd818e5e89196d3d93d8616)
and [**‘Two Song Slot’**](https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.youtube.com%2fwatch%3fv%3dnfC5cjIXdAA&umid=e722ec2e-2343-47b3-81f2-e00686d99a78&auth=65a620fa4b6e2edf0405a6ed61dc7465231096cd-350d7933462e6e0fc2904a26498326372382ef52),
was met with popular acclaim, receiving positive reviews and airplay in dozens of
countries.  Since founding Bromide in 1996, the band has released six albums via
London-based Scratchy Records.

As of December 10, the ‘Following The Moon’ album will be released, available digitally
at [**https://smarturl.it/followingthemoonalb**](https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fsmarturl.it%2ffollowingthemoonalb&umid=e722ec2e-2343-47b3-81f2-e00686d99a78&auth=65a620fa4b6e2edf0405a6ed61dc7465231096cd-2972da29d3898c8f86dcae4cf32a89e191daab60)
and on vinyl via [**Cargo Records**](https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fcargorecordsdirect.co.uk%2fproducts%2fsimon%2dbromide%2dfollowing%2dthe%2dmoon&umid=e722ec2e-2343-47b3-81f2-e00686d99a78&auth=65a620fa4b6e2edf0405a6ed61dc7465231096cd-0c937362c6410a57695c084d9277b22ae8d6b2e2).
That same evening, Simon Bromide performs for his Album Launch at The Old Dispensary(
Camberwell SE5 0TF), along with Dirty Viv and Hankdog.

**ALBUM CREDITS**
All songs written by Simon Berridge except ‘Earth’s Answer’ by
William Blake, music by SBRecorded at Bark Studios in Walthamstow by Brian O’ShaughnessyMastered
by Jerome Schmitt at AirlabSimon Berridge – vocals, acoustic & electric guitarsFells
Guilherme – drums & percussionEd ‘Cosmo’ Wright – bass guitar, acoustic guitar solo
on ‘The Argument’Dave Hale – backing vocals, electric guitar, Hammond organ & PianoDimitri
Ntontis – Hammond organ + mellotronStephen Elwell – sound fx on ‘The Argument’ &‘
Earth’s Answer’Katy Carr – piano on ‘The Skehans Song’ and ‘Reflections of Seating’Terry
Edwards – trumpet on ‘The Argument’Julie Anne McCambridge – vocals on ‘Earth’s Answer’

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**TRACK LIST**
1. The Waiting Room2. Chinua Achebe3. The Skehans Song4. Not That
Type5. The Argument6. Slow Release Love7. Following The Moon8. Reflections of Seating9.
Earth’s Answer

**FOR FANS OF: **
Teenage Fanclub, Elvis Costello, The Church, The Chills, Lloyd
Cole

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