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The Brute Chorus
12+ albums
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The Brute Chorus on Twitter The Brute Chorus on Facebook The Brute Chorus on Soundcloud The Brute Chorus have been combining garage, blues and folk music with a scattering of Biblical stories, nursery rhymes and fairy tales since 2008. Their enormously accessible sound has managed to escape any generalised genre pigeon-holing, instead they’ve been carving out their own genuine, word-of-mouth buzz from their exciting live shows. They began taking it to the people with a monthly residency at Camden’s infamous Hawley Arms pub. The band’s first releases, charming offerings of psyched-out garage-folk (Chateau/The Cuckoo & The Stolen Heart featuring a duet with Chew Lips front woman Tigs) were put out on the Hawley Arms backed Bumpman Records and received widespread acclaim from Steve Lamacq, Zane Lowe, NME, The Fly amongst others. The scuzzy blues-folk quartet took their splendidly raucous live shows on the road with a host of festival appearances including Glastonbury (BBC Introducing stage), Camden Crawl, Great Escape, Secret Garden Party, Belladrum, Standon & Kendal Calling. As well as touring with the likes of Vincent Vincent & The Villains, Martha Wainwright, Rumble Strips, Ida Maria and even a trip to the seaside with Peggy Sue as well as numerous headline UK and European shows. This led to the recording of the Brute Chorus' debut album. Made in one heart-stopping take in front of 300 of their most loyal fans at The Roundhouse’s FreeDM studios. They begged, borrowed an
