Brighton’s PROJECTOR Reveal Tilehouse Session Live Video For ‘Hope Springs Eternal’
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November 2025 EU Support Tour w/ Swim School
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Brighton trio PROJECTOR are today pleased to reveal a Tilehouse Session live video for their latest single ‘Hope Springs Eternal’, out now via all good digital service providers.
Pure analogue recordings from bands playing 100% live to analogue tape, the Tilehouse Sessions are recorded by Luke Oldfield to a 16-track 2-inch Studer A800 tape machine at Tilehouse Studios—a vintage recording studio set in the UK countryside outside of West London, specialising in analogue tape recording.
Visit the studio website for more details: https://www.tilehousestudios.com
The session was mixed digitally by Luie Stylianou, and the video was filmed and edited by Ryan Crossland and Francesca Rossi.
Commenting on the experience, bassist/vocalist Lucy Sheehan said: “I’ve been a fan of the studio and Luke’s work since I first heard The Wytches, so it was a real treat to record at Tilehouse. Spending a day in a cosy studio full of beautiful old gear and natural light, tucked away in the trees, was our idea of a perfect day. We’re really pleased with how the recordings came out and so grateful to Luie Stylianou for setting this up.”
A pummelling slab of distortion-heavy grunge that stomps its way menacingly to an unexpectedly melodic denouement, ‘Hope Springs Eternal’ is the latest track to be taken from the band’s recently-released second album, Contempt, out now via new label home Alcopop! Records.
Recorded and produced by Ben Hampson (DITZ, Lambrini Girls) and mastered by Katie Tavini, the new album follows on from the critical success of their 2024 debut NOW WHEN WE TALK IT’S VIOLENCE (Venn Records).
Early singles ‘The Sham! The Sham! The Sham!’, ‘Collision’, ‘It Surely Has Been Hell’ and ‘Migraine’ were released over the course of the year, picking up support from BBC 6music, Radio X, BBC introducing, Amazing Radio, The Line of Best Fit, Get In Her Ears and more.
Kicking off their live year supporting Canadian rock heavyweights Cleopatrick back in March, the band recently wrapped a run of UK/France October 2025 headline tour dates, and head out on a string of November 2025 EU support dates with Scottish indie rock band Swim School later this month (see below for listings).
“We’ve been in withdrawal since we got back from our headline tour, so we can’t wait to head out again,” says Sheehan on the upcoming dates. “It’s gonna be great watching Swim School every night. I honestly spent one of the best days of my life in Antwerp last year so I can’t wait to play there.”
Projector’s new album Contempt is out now via Alcopop! Records
Live Dates:
22/11 – Cologne // Helios 37 (DE) *
23/11 – Berlin // Kantine am Berghain (DE) *
25/11 – Rotterdam // Rotown (NL) *
26/11 – Antwerp // Kavka (BE) *
27/11 – Aarau // Kiff (CH) *
28/11 – Paris // Supersonic (FR) *
* w/ Swim School
Tickets: https://linktr.ee/ProjectorOfficial
Contempt album tracklist:
1. The Sham! The Sham! The Sham!
2. Collision
4. Migraine
5. Phantom Limb
6. O Well
7. S.O.M.O.D.
9. It's True
10. Communion
11. Happy to be Here
12. Who Loves You, Baby?
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Since they formed in 2018, Brighton’s PROJECTOR have stubbornly gone their own way. Bringing angular industrial drum machines to hook laden alt-rock, and lush melody to frenzied post-punk, the band have never hesitated to prioritise sonic breadth and an experimental attitude to pop. It’s this confidence in craft that have lead them to tour Europe with rock giants Cleopatrick while simultaneously haunting the airplay of BBC Radio 6’s left field Steve Lamacq and Amy Lamé shows.
PROJECTOR deal in nuance of expression and the true insanity and grit of modern life, psyche and politics (although they don’t like to talk about lyrics.) With the same attitude to recording, PROJECTOR have kept a firm grip over their creative output by producing and recording themselves for the last few years.
PROJECTOR’s debut album ‘NOW WHEN WE TALK IT’S VIOLENCE’ moves effortlessly between artful derangement, aggression and the pop hooks that have regularly seen the band gatecrash the mainstream rock scene. At times it’s drenched in the dark, industrial brutalism of Joy Division, at others it’s a spectacular of hyperactive, Squid-flavoured rant-pop. The album features climaxes that stagger into acid-soaked country, warped with drum machines and lush harmonies, before leaping into blisteringly paranoid Incesticide-era grunge, topped with melting Lana Del Rey-flavour choruses.
Above all, the band’s tightly wound intensity drives the album with the strange fervour of early Pixies that reflects the energy of their live show. PROJECTOR celebrated their debut with a UK and EU tour, starting February 2024.
