This April, Ariel Sharratt & Mathias Kom (of The Burning Hell) will be bringing their 2020 album Never Work to life, collaborating with visual artist and indie rock legend Shotgun Jimmie in a multidisciplinary show (see UK dates below). The tour will be accompanied by a re-pressing of the long sold-out Never Work, and the release of a collaborative EP with Shotgun Jimmie, Hardly Working.
In his review of Never Work, Thomas Blake wrote for KLOF Mag:
Mathias Kom and Ariel Sharratt created some of the wittiest and wordiest songs of the last decade or so. Kom’s literary-slacker songwriting and the band’s lo-fi energy saw them touted as natural successors to the Silver Jews, and their hard-touring work ethic earned them a cult following, particularly in Europe. On their first album as a duo, 2015’s Don’t Believe The Hyperreal, they forged a new path as a kind of millennial Lee and Nancy.
Never Work, the duo’s second release away from the Burning Hell moniker is an album about how employment and production are changing as capitalism destroys itself…imagination is key here: this is a future peopled by utterly believable characters in uncannily recognisable scenarios, but the wealth of artistic and personal detail means these songs are more than just speculative microfictions.
Never Work Live Dates:
April 7 – Bristol – Strange Brew
April 9 – Newport – Le Pub
April 10 – Sheffield – Dorothy Pax
April 11 – Newcastle – Cluny
April 12 – Glasgow – Glad Café
April 13 – Eaglescliffe – P&E Social Club
April 14 – York – The Crescent
April 15 – Manchester – Gullivers
April 16 – Hebden Bridge – Trades Club
April 17 – London – The Water Rats
April 18 – Brighton – Hope & Ruin
April 19 – Smallhythe Place – Ellen Terry Theatre
April 20 – Ramsgate – Ramsgate Music Hall
Tickets: https://www.theburninghell.com/general-clean
Released April 5th 2024
NEVER WORK (Gold Edition) BB*ISLAND, LP: BBI 0381X
Bandcamp: https://theburninghell.bandcamp.com/album/never-work