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The song, written by frontman Matthew Murphy, tells the story of his addiction to anti-depressants, which he had been taking to combat his anxiety and which he said made him "a mess". He claims that the main reason he felt he had to come off the pills was the fact that he was gaining weight, which inspires the line, "Then there's the extra two ...
Singer Matthew Murphy told XFM about the sound of the new single: "I don't think we consciously thought we'd make a synth-pop-whatever record. It just happened. There are a lot more keyboards and I didn't play as much guitar. It's quite an angsty, anxious song, wanting to run away from everything. A lot of our songs are escapist, I think." [2]
The Wombats performing in 2007. The trio met as teenagers in 2003 while studying at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.Lead singer and guitarist Matthew Murphy and drummer Dan Haggis are both from Liverpool, with Murphy having grown up in Woolton and Haggis having grown up in Garston, while bassist Tord Øverland Knudsen is a Norwegian immigrant from Elverum.
Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life is the fourth major studio album by British rock band The Wombats. The album was released on 9 February 2018. [ 2 ] The first single from the album, " Lemon to a Knife Fight ", was released on 7 November 2017.
The song was made available to download on 8 October 2007, with a physical release one week later. It is based on a drunken night out experienced by lead singer Matthew Murphy at Le Bateau, a nightclub in the band's home city of Liverpool , during which he and his then-girlfriend danced on a table to " Love Will Tear Us Apart " by Joy Division .
As shown in The Crown season six, Princess Diana called her eldest son "Wombat." Here's why.
"Moving to New York" is the debut single by the English band the Wombats, taken from their debut album A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation. It was originally released as a non-album single on 7-inch, in limited edition packaging, on 26 October 2006; it was re-released on 14 January 2008, two months after the release of the album.
Princess Diana's sweet nickname for her eldest son, Prince William, features in the final season of The Crown.In the show, she calls him "Wombat," which was actually a real nickname she had for him.