Jack Hues announces new live EP from Canterbury

Wang Chung frontman Jack Hues has announced that he will release a new free three-track EP, Canterbury Live, today. The new EP celebrates one year since Hues' debut solo album Primitif was released and acts as a taster for his second solo album, due this summer.

The three track EP features renditions of Whitstable Beach, The Look Of Love and Astrology recorded at the Gulbenkian Theatre in Canterbury on October 1 last year. The show took place during a brief relaxation of the pandemic lockdown rules and Jack describes that it happened at all as "miraculous".

"I began writing and recording in a little apartment in the heart of Canterbury and added amazing musicians, friends and family to the mix. I wove musical threads through the songs creating connections, confections, diversions and dispersions. It has taken me a long time to release a solo album so there is a lot to say and it has to be a double album to carry that weight of years and experience. The emotional landscape is primal, the means of production were basic, if not exactly primitive... so it became Primitif.

"We were scheduled to do an album launch gig on the day of release, 21March 2020, but lockdown was just beginning and it was postponed. We randomly selected October 1 as the alternative date thinking it will all be over by then... But the date stayed in the Gulbenkian diary, we tried a rehearsal with a smaller band than we initially intended in order to comply with the restrictions. It was great to play again - we kept going and the gig happened, people came out to see us - it was miraculous that we managed to walk out on that stage!"

You can watch a video of Hues performing Astrology at the Gulbeknian Theatre below.

Get Canterbury Live EP.

Jack Hues: Canterbury Live EP
1. Whitstable Beach
2. The Look Of Love
3. Astrology

Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine which he founded for Future Publishing in 2009. He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including Wonderous Stories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock.