Eight Legs aren’t what they seem. Loved by the fashion world yet staunchly a content-over-style affair with literary references blazing from every acutely socially aware lyric. Youthful and buoyant, projected in their adrenalized live shows where a live for now, rock ‘n’ roll spirit races through their collective veins, yet they soundtracked the precautionary anti-binge drinking ad on TV. They then spent the cash from said successes on setting up own label Boot Legs. Living for the moment is nice and all, but when music is your life you want some longevity and creative control.

And here’s another confusion. The bands last single ‘I Understand’ was a warm, jovial sing-a-long bursting with shouty chorus and psychedelic twists and turns. Now it’s time to meet the ‘other’ Eight Legs. New single ‘Best of Me’ is a tale of paranoia, isolation and the sense of something lurking around the corners of life that is out to get us all. A creeping sense of anxiety and urgency fuelled by thunderous drums, a killer foreboding guitar riff and a chorus that drives direct to the pit of your stomach and runs around your head for days. Eight Legs welcome in the dark side and it suits them.

Eight Legs release ‘Best of Me‘ on Monday 15th February, with album ‘The Electric Kool-Aid Cuckoo Nest‘ following a week after on Monday 22nd.

19th Feb @ Club Strut, Doncaster

23rd Feb @ Barfly, Cardiff

24th Feb @ 93  Feet East, London

25th Feb @ The Rainbow, Birmingham

26th Feb @ Elbow Rooms, Leeds

27th Feb @ Roadhouse, Manchester