Vehicle

Please Please You presentsVehicleThe Crescent, YorkWednesday 24th March, Doors 7.30pm This is a standing show Fall in love with wasting time on 'Miserable Vibes' by Leeds' Garage-Jangle quartet Vehicle, the new single from their debut album proper, Fumes, released on Esco Romanesco Records in March. A jangling slow-build of americana hustle, where every lyric is as sharp and ear-catching as the next, 'Miserable Vibes' is a prime cut from Vehicle's ever-blossoming oeuvre. Filtering a passion for vintage guitar-pop through a surrealistic lyrical lens of modern life in a Northern British City, the quartet are busy observing all those things the world has forgotten to remember, smoking in McDonald's among them. Hardly true to its name, here, it's Miserable Vibes only. Explaining more about the track, frontman/guitarist Michael Cable says: "A withdrawn nostalgia addict goes cold turkey, everything floats to the surface, the conclusion is an elusive one. Archive footage floats across the words- our hero doesn't know what era they're from anymore, the song is about the strange guilt of living in a present that borrows too heavily from the past. In the end it doesn't really matter - "I Love Wasting Time". Denim's 1992 album "Back in Denim" is a big influence on this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmJ8D4pZ5sQ With a pair of acclaimed singles to their name this year, Vehicle have been making moves. Gigging with numerous vintage pop contemporaries across the UK in Sharp Pins, The Tubs, Good Flying Birds, The Cindys, Holiday Ghosts, Formal Sppeedwear, Bramwell, Midding and The Paris Match, the band have won heaps of BBC 6music support (Craig Charles, Huw Stephens, Emily Pilbeam, New Music Fix, and Indie Forever) with Steve Lamacq declaring summer cut 'Escalators' his "song of the summer". There's also been early press nods from The Line of Best Fit, So Young, Stereogum, DIY, Far Out, Pretty Green, Shindig!, Hard of Hearing, and more. FFO: Sharp Pins, Good Flying Birds, Teenage Fanclub, The La's, C86 More about Vehicle and 'Fumes': Originating as the brainchild of Michael Cable (formerly of Perspex), Vehicle crawled out of watering holes across Leeds' flourishing and much-beloved DIY scene. Wryly describing themselves a 'hellpop beat combo', the band dole out bejangled garage-rock flavours, filtering their passions for the vintages of Merseybeat, British Invasion, 80s psych and americana through a surrealistic lens of modern life in Northern British city. The world of 'Fumes' is a world of Fisherman's Friend and; Counterfeit Tobacco; Grey crushed velvet and Satellite Towns; The kebab shops of Lincoln Green; Barry's Gold, Ginger Nuts and Danny's famous chilli; Leeds Bus Station, car parks and police interceptors. Taking its title from a dream Cable once had as an internationally acclaimed artist "formerly known as fumes'', the nine tracks across Vehicle's new record billow up mystically like plumes of smoke from pools of deep matter. Across its acerbic, humorous and surreal kitchen sink satires, 'Fumes' dredges up mucky gold from the corners of the subconscious, and all those things, Cable says "the world has forgotten to remember". Press: "Instantly endearing...like a latter-day Monkees doing a version of American Slacker Pop."Steve Lamacq (6Music) "Vehicle rewire guitar pop history"The Line of Best Fit "a heady, moreish, and a delicious surge of treble-maxxed guitars, melodic-as-fuck hooks and surrealistic ramble"So Young "fuzzy garage rock that recalls ? and the Mysterians or the 13th Floor Elevators. Vehicle are honing a sound from the '60s, similar to nostalgia-pop time travelers Sharp Pins."Stereogum "A really important part of the new music scene [in Leeds]. One of my favourite tunes, in terms of garage-rock, coming out of the UK in 2026"Matt Wilkinson (Apple Music) "masters of homesick-pop songwriting." DIY "Makes me feel like I need to don some flairs and walk with swagger down a back street somewhere"Emily Pilbeam (6Music) "Smart enough to know their influences, confident enough to twist them into something that feels like their own"Shindig! "wild-eyed and immediate...Leeds has one of the most in-form grassroots music scenes in the country and Vehicle are one of its very finest offerings."Hard of Hearing "everything that a great rock song should be."Far Out "gleaming with inverted blues ancestry and the white-hot zeal of counterculture"Louder Than War