Brighton’s PROJECTOR Sign To Alcopop! Records + Reveal Video For New Single ‘Collision’ Out Now
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Announce October 2025 UK/EU Tour Dates
UK Presale: Thu 29th May @ 10am / General sale: Fri 30th May @ 10am
Tickets - https://linktr.ee/ProjectorOfficial
Alcopop! Records are delighted to announce that they have signed Brighton trio PROJECTOR. To celebrate the news, the band have revealed a video for their new single ‘Collision’ which is out now on all good digital service providers.
Commenting on the signing, label boss Jack Clothier said: “We’re absolutely made up to be signing Projector. That’s two of the best bands around in a week; I’m not sure how we got so lucky to be honest. Brighton is a heartland we’ve always loved, and the moment you listen to those huge, deep angular riffs that Projector produce, the cataclysmic underbelly busy ‘chaosing’ about while these dissonant melodies shimmer over the top...it’s like DITZ meets Scarfo (or The Pixies for those not into subversive 1997 alt-indie). Producer Ben Hampson called it “a fight in a big metal bin”—that’s a far better description TBH. So excited for you to hear everything that’s coming up! See you at the front yeah?”
Fresh from a March 2025 support slot with Canadian rock heavyweights Cleopatrick, the band will appear at Supersonic Block Party in Paris this weekend, and have just announced a run of UK/France October 2025 tour dates, with tickets on presale at 10am BST Thursday 29th May, and general sale this Friday 30th May at 10am BST.
Typical of the three piece’s approach to genre-splicing and sonic acrobatics, ‘Collision’ is a snappy 2 minutes and 30 seconds that begins as a convulsive slice of staccato art-rock à la Courting and Cheekface, before opening up into a soaring alt-rock chorus replete with playfully intertwining dual vocals from guitarist Edward and bassist Lucy.
Commenting on the track, guitarist Edward said: "Collision is based on Crash, a J.G Ballard Novel. It’s about a group of guys who hang out getting all turned on over car crashes. I tried to incorporate Ballard’s technique of describing human feelings and functions with mechanical language. It was very fun, but the song ended up sounding like it’s about a car who wants to fuck.”
Recorded and produced by Ben Hampson (DITZ, Lambrini Girls) and mastered by Katie Tavini, the official video for the new single was shot and directed by Avocado Baby Films.
"Being, as I am, from a long line of south London mechanics, but unable personally to change a wheel, I felt that a video set in a garage would honour that lineage whilst complementing Edward's deviant car-themed lyrics,” says bassist Lucy of the visuals. “We worked with our long-term collaborator Sam Morris of Avocado Baby Films, who has patiently brought our ideas to life for 2 years now with total DIY spirit."
Following the critical success of their 2024 debut album NOW WHEN WE TALK IT’S VIOLENCE (Venn Records), the genre-warping trio’s newest offering follows on from the arrival of March 2025 single ‘The Sham! The Sham! The Sham!’—a jagged, frenzied post-punk eruption that reaffirmed PROJECTOR’s reputation as one of the UK’s most sonically adventurous bands.
Their debut album NOW WHEN WE TALK IT’S VIOLENCE was a record that blended industrial brutalism with grunge-soaked paranoia and a pop sensibility that propelled PROJECTOR into the mainstream rock conversation.
The album’s DIY approach—recorded and produced by the band and long-term collaborator Ben Hampson—earned them praise for their uncompromising vision and sonic adventurism from The Line of Best Fit and other tastemakers, drawing radio support from the Gemma Bradley at BBC Radio 1, Amy Lamé, Tom Robinson and Steve Lamacq at BBC Radio 6 Music, and John Kennedy at Radio X.
Further new music and live dates will be revealed over the coming months.
Live Dates:
29-30/05 – Supersonic Block Party // Paris (FR)
08/10 – Reims // La Cartonnerie (FR)
09/10 – Rennes // L’Antipode (FR)
10/10 – Paris // Point Éphémère (FR)
11/10 – Lille // L’Aeronef (FR)
13/10 – Birmingham // Sunflower Lounge (UK)
14/10 – Sheffield // Hallamshire Hotel (UK)
15/10 – Manchester // 33 Oldham St (UK)
16/10 – Bristol // The Louisiana (UK)
17/10 – London // The Lower Third (UK)
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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.
Their March 2025 single finds the band at their most unhinged yet. A riotous blend of razor-sharp guitars, dissonant harmonies, and a propulsive rhythm section, ‘The Sham! The Sham! The Sham!’ channels the frenzied energy of their live performances into a controlled explosion of raw emotion and chaos.
Guitarist and singer Edward explains: “The Sham The Sham The Sham is a triptych depicting three characters, each of whom hold themselves in the highest regard and each of whom share a common contempt for their fellow man. This distaste is reflected in the music, a crass atonal amalgam of disparate genres and unpleasant clanking. Described by returning producer Ben Hampson as sounding like “a fight in a big metal bin”. The contempt is even extended to the listener. The lyrics written solely for the enjoyment of the writer, replete with references to Greek mythology, French cinema and other more bodily subjects.”
Listen to the previous single ‘The Sham! The Sham! The Sham!’ here:
https://lnk.to/TheShamTheShamTheSham
Listen to debut album Now When We Talk It’s Violence here:
https://lnk.to/NWWTIV
