The Living End Share Latest Single ‘Strange Place’
‘Strange Place’ is the rollicking follow-up to The Living End’s first single in seven years, ‘Alfie’.
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Following the release of their first single since 2018, ‘Alfie’, The Living End have delivered the second taste of their upcoming album in the form of ‘Strange Place’.
This is another track that ticks all the classic Living End boxes and is sure to appeal to longtime fans of the band. The song focuses on the current cost of living crisis, the rise of social media and just how fucked the world is, with the chorus going: “Well, they're telling me that the world isn't round / Yeah, you can't pay the rent so they're kicking you out / They're hiking up the interest rates / This planet's turning into a very strange place these days.”
Singer/guitarist Chris Cheney had this to say about the ‘Strange Place’, “News flash! It’s getting crazy out there! I look around and I see a lot of people that just can’t make sense of where this world is heading.
“It’s become a ‘Strange Place’; a giant asylum full of fragile, disconnected and disillusioned people that aren’t coping.
“Mental health, the cost of living, social media, the threat of war, increasing youth related crime, online toxicity, a whole generation trying to learn in real time how to function and cope with a world spinning too fast and run by lunatics.”
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To celebrate the release of ‘Strange Place’, The Living End held a pop-up event at Melbourne’s The Tote over the weekend.
The activation, which was made to resemble an end-of-days bunker, was created by Melbourne-based multi-media artist Callum Preston. All three band members (Chris, Scott and Andy) made their presence felt at the event, signing hand-screened posters they gave away for free.
Bursting onto the Aussie music scene in 1997 with the release of their hit EP Second Solution / Prisoner of Society. The band went nuclear a year later when they followed up with their self-titled debut album, which topped the charts and earned The Living End two ARIA Awards.
The past 30 years have resulted in eight studio albums – their most recent being 2018’s Wunderbar – two ARIA Charting #1 albums, countless awards and sold-out tours across the globe.
‘Strange Place’ by The Living End is out now.
