Abbe May has returned from a hiatus this year in glorious fashion, dropping her comeback single ‘Are We Flirting?’ earlier this year, and following it up now with a new one titled ‘Doomsday Clock’.
One of the first tracks written for upcoming record Bitchcraft, it features ominous overtones wrought of tolling bells and a gospel choir made up of May and fellow singers Joni Hogan and Odette Mercy.
“My lifeline really was the great love I feel for my infant niece and nephews. It really made me see beyond myself, that I needed to do something more meaningful than pursue this whole sex, drugs and rock and roll thing. I want them to have a good future here on earth.
“I want to try at least to help guide them through a better world than the one I currently see being wilfully destroyed through greed, manipulation and stupidity. I am just a singer but I may as well use my voice for good if it can in any way make the world better for them.”
‘Doomsday Clock’ is a direct response to the current political climate, an expression of May’s clear discontent.
“I am disturbed by the political climate in Australia. We seem to live in a country that is more concerned with #censusfail than about our government’s horrifying abuses of the human rights of refugees. We have lost our way and it bodes very badly for our future.
“We are being told to fear refugees by the very people we should be focusing our suspicions on – the vast majority of politicians and the big business they work for. They are the ones keeping everyone hungry. They sold us the trickle down lie. Not the refugees.
“History has shown how conservative governments deliberately fan the flames of the fear of the ‘other’ to keep control and to distract us. They deliberately gut funding for the arts and for education so as to keep us uninformed and therefore unarmed against their policies which are overwhelmingly geared toward creating massive class divide. This is not a time for artists to be silent. We have a job to do.”
Bitchcraft is released in Australia On August 26 through Luxury Cat Records.
Abbe May – Doomsday Clock Tour 2016
Thu Nov 17 – Newtown Social Club – Sydney Nsw
Fri Nov 18 – Transit Bar – Canberra Act
Sat Nov 19 – Rad Bar – Wollongong Nsw
Thu Nov 24 – Northcote Social Club – Melbourne Vic
Fri Nov 25 – The Grand Hotel – Mornington Vic
Sat Nov 26 – Queenscliff Music Festival – Queenslciff Vic
Fri Dec 2 – The Workers Club – Geelong Vic
Sat Dec 3 – The Grace Emily – Adelaide Sa
Fri Dec 9 – The Beach Hotel – Byron Bay Nsw
Sat Dec 10 – The Bearded Lady – Brisbane Qld
Fri Dec 16 – Jack Rabbit Slims – Perth Wa
