Month: August 2023

Red Guitars x Jake Angel  Good Technology (Cowboy Mix) New Single, Video & Tour

NEWSFLASH! New Red Guitars x Jake Angel Good Technology Cowboy Remix is to be released on 1st September ahead of our UK tour. You can find out more and watch the video now. YEEHAH! 

With their complete and original line-up about to kick off a 40^th anniversary UK tour, seminal 80’s post-punk outfit Red Guitars mark an unexpected collaboration with country hip-hop pioneer Jake Angel with the September 1^st release of Good Technology (Cowboy Mix), an other-worldly rework of the Hull band’s debut single and number one indie chart hit, with rattlesnake slides, menacing fretless bass and distorted call & response vocals. 

The Red Guitars x Jake Angel – Good Technology (Cowboy Mix) was mixed by Red Guitars Lou Duffy-Howard in collaboration with Nashville based producer Jake Angel. The track will be released as a free download on Bandcamp, this link will be live on September 1st: https://redguitars.bandcamp.com/track/red-guitars-x-jake-angel-good-technology-cowboy-mix

“When the 40th anniversary of Good Technology was coming into view we had the original master tape baked and digitised, so we had the original stems to work with. John took the lead on the official extended remix and I worked on the additional Cowboy Mix. We’re all fans of the wild west and our drummer Matt’s nephew is Jake Angel, who lives in Nashville and produces country hip hop beats. I picked one of his beats to work with, mixed the original stems and added a new live fretless bass to the track. I changed the scan of the vocals and separated each line so that it became a kind of question and answer, adding a slight distortion to the answer and panning it slightly to one side. I made the video to go with it, and I particularly like the way that in the guitar solo the bull moves from left to right as the solo does the same.” Red Guitar Lou Duffy-Howard

“That video is a VIBE!”  Jake Angel Beats

‘Freaking hell – or a more sweary version of that!!!! It’s ACE – totally different mood to the Extended Mix, but both distinctively & brilliantly evocative.’

‘Powerful juxtaposition of atmospheric Dust Bowl resonators & rattlesnake slides & menacing fretless bass weaving a serpentine path through the beats; panning, distorted vocal echoes & the screaming tortured guitar a potent sonic “J’Accuse”‘ Junkyard of Silenced Poets

Good Technology 2023 UK Tour

Tickets and Info: https://www.aegpresents.co.uk/events/detail/red-guitars-1

Monday 4th September Manchester, Night & Day

Wednesday 6th September Newcastle, Cluny2

Thursday 7th September  Glasgow, Attic Garage

Friday 8th September Leeds, Old Woollen 

Sunday 10th September Sheffield, Dorothy Pax

Tuesday 12th September Bristol, Exchange

Wednesday 13th September The Joiners, Southampton

Thursday 14th September Birmingham, Academy 3

Saturday 16th September Waterfront, Norwich

Sunday 17th September London, 100 Club 

Monday 18th September Oxford, The Bullingdon

Wednesday 20th September Brighton, Chalk