Boston Manor unleash heavy new single, Sliding Doors

Following on from February single Container, Boston Manor have shared another excellent (and pretty damn heavy) track called Sliding Doors.

The song arrives ahead of this month’s sold-out UK headline tour, and as the title suggests it came about after frontman Henry Cox began reflecting on “all of the decisions that I’ve made that have led me to the life I have and how circumstantial a lot of it is”.

He explains: “It got me thinking about how Boston Manor started. I’d had a few conversations with Dan [Cunniff, bass] and Mike [Cunniff, lead guitar] – who I barely knew at the time – about starting a band. But at that time I was in art school in a different city and I had a bunch of other stuff going on. I was also starting like two other bands with different people so I figured it was just something that you talk about.”

Of the very specific origins of the band, Henry continues that, “I’d gone home to visit my parents for the weekend and had taken a bus up to north shore to go and visit a friend, I was on my way home and the bus basically crashed. It wasn’t bad, no-one was hurt or anything, but I had to get off. It was super late and buses basically stop running at that time in parts of Blackpool. I had been texting Mike and it turned out the bus had crashed at the bottom of his street, so I just went round to his. We basically ended up writing the first song from our demo that night. We played our first show a few weeks later.

“If that car hadn’t pulled out on that bus, we probably never would’ve started Boston Manor and been all the places we’ve been, I wouldn’t have met my wife and half of my friends. I don’t know if I would even be playing music now.”

Stream Sliding Doors now:

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Catch Boston Manor at the following UK dates:

April

5 Newcastle World HQ
6 Sheffield Yellow Arch
7 Edinburgh The Caves
9 Norwich Art Centre
10 Birkenhead Future Yard CIC
11 Oxford O2 Academy
12 London Oslo Hackney

July

10 2000trees Festival

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