TINA SANDWICH kicked off 2024 in style last week with a sold-out headline show at King Tuts as part of their New Year’s Revolution series.
The singer well and truly brought the Glasgow crowd out of their post-festive slump – bringing heaps of star power and high-energy pop-rock tunes to the hallowed stage, while setting social media alight with a fervently-received cover of ‘Perfect (Exceeder)’ from the Saltburn soundtrack.
Her original material shone just as brightly – with her recent single ‘Joni’ given a star turn just days after its release. Unveiled on 2nd January, it shows a new side to the singer – channelling the punchy, pop-punk energy of previous tracks into a poignant moment of nostalgia and reflection. More stripped back than we’ve heard before, her yearning vocals and heartfelt lyrics are given time to shine over a light, wistful instrumental that shows hints of The Cure and The Cranberries. Written from a place of loneliness and homsickness, there’s definitely glimmers of hope to take from her thoughtful reflections.
Speaking about the track, she said: I wrote it in the low ebb of a blue black winter. Having not long moved to Glasgow, I was lonely and oftentimes confused. Could you really choose your home? Decide on a place and make one there?
‘Slowly I did. Home became a familiar Burns poem in a far-flung bookshop. Tracing the lines of a new transport system til they felt like veins. Hearing flickers of a song by The Cranberries, after it goes viral on TikTok. My fingertips settling in on the same shapes on new guitars. Spending half an hour in a record shop just to listen to Joni Mitchell’s Blue, as though it were an eavesdropped conversation.
‘The days are getting longer now. They’ll get shorter again and longer again and we’ll soothe ourselves in between.’
Tina Sandwich plays a homecoming show in Aberdeen on 15th February with Glasgow punks Gallus.
Check out ‘Joni’ below.
