Peter Bibby shares new single ‘Fun Guy’
Peter Bibby | Photo credit - Natalie Hewitt
“Bibby is a master of the gritty earworm..” - MOJO
Today, Perth misfit Peter Bibby shares his new single ‘Fun Guy’, off his new album Drama King, out May 31 on Spinning Top Records.
‘Fun Guy’ is an in-your-face up-tempo rocker, which you can almost picture Bibby doing calisthenics at a furious pace while shouting lyrics such as “these get-togethers don’t do nothing for me / I’ve got better things to do with my energy." ’Fun Guy’ continues Bibby's penchant for writing honest tunes for the working class.
“I was just really over all the silliness and getting wasted and all dumb behaviour that is considered ‘fun'." admits Bibby. “A lot of the songs on the album are the result of situations where I was drunk or dealing with the drama that comes from it all. It suggests a period of change, and honing in on the shitty situations which have inspired it.”
Bibby further shares “It’s a fun song about quitting fun. A bit gross, a bit self deprecative, a bit of a banger. Rather than a drum loop, we just went full drum machine with this one, taking a few hints from Suicide’s first album. We laid this whole thing down in a few hours on my first day in the studio, setting the tone for a disgustingly productive few weeks.”
Watch the video for ‘Fun Guy’ here
Peter Bibby recently announced the Drama King Australian tour, which will see Bibby’s Big Horse band saddle up for a 4 night residency at the Buffalo Club in Fremantle and then onto shows in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. Full tour details below.
Drama King was produced by first-time collaborator Dan Luscombe, whose work with fellow Aussie breakouts The Drones and Amyl and the Sniffers convinced Bibby he’d be in safe hands. Bibby later travelled to Los Angeles to mix the album with White Denim’s Josh Block, a frequent collaborator with Leon Bridges.
“It was the first time I'd worked with a producer, and I prepared for it knowing that my songs were going to get chopped up and shortened,” Bibby recalls. “I’m glad I did, because for the most part, Dan was like, oh, you've already solved every problem I had with these. He was completely underselling himself, because he shaped and sculpted every song on the record into a far more beautiful and articulate thing than I could have on my own."
“Where Dan shaped and sculpted the songs into superior arrangements, Josh made them sound better than I ever thought they could sound,” Bibby says.
And while the material on Drama King may have come together without major incident, its lyrics reflect Bibby’s evolution from hard-partying prankster to a more enlightened, responsible human who now knows when enough is really enough.
FREO RESIDENCY DATES
Thu 02 May - Buffalo Club - Fremantle, WA
Thu 09 May - Buffalo Club - Fremantle, WA
Thu 23 May - Buffalo Club - Fremantle, WA
Thu 30 May - Buffalo Club - Fremantle, WA
SPINNING TOP AND SELECT MUSIC PRESENTS PETER BIBBY DRAMA KING AUSTRALIAN TOUR
Thu 20 Jun – The Valley Loft - Brisbane, QLD
Fri 21 Jun – Mary's Underground - Sydney, NSW
Sat 22 Jun – Howler, Melbourne - VIC
Sat 29 Jun – Jive - Adelaide, SA.
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