The Joy Hotel

We are delighted to welcome The Joy Hotel for an instore performance and signing in support of their album Ceremony (released 19th July 2024) at Assai Records Glasgow, on the 22nd July 2024, at 5.30pm. CD + 1 Priority Entry 5.30pm £15* 2 x CD + 2 Priority Entry 5.30pm £30* Blue with White Splatter and Red with White Splatter Colour Vinyl LP + 1 Priority Entry 5.30pm £30* Please select "Collect instore Glasgow" at checkout. Tracklist: 1. I Decline 2. Forever Tender Blue 3. First Joy 4. Jeremiah 5. Black Balloon 6. Rapid Eye Movement 7. Old Man's Eyes 8. While You're Young 9. No Use 10. Twenty Three (A Comedy) - Part 1 11. Twenty Three (A Comedy) - Part 2 12. Killing Time 13. Small Mercy Glasgow septet The Joy Hotel are announcing their debut album Ceremony with the release of its lead single, the surging and rapturous 'Jeremiah'. It’s a song that grapples with the idea of approaching unknowns, and how conflicting attitudes illicit different responses to the same situation. More directly, it’s about staring death in the face and choosing how to come to terms with it. Newly signed to SO Recordings and with a debut album proper in hand, The Joy Hotel have become a word-of-mouth success story in the Scottish DIY scene, and have since taken their live show across the UK and Europe, playing festivals including Hidden Door, Doune the Rabbit Hole, Connect, TRNSMT, Twisterella, Latitude, Sound City and The Great Escape. The band spent eleven days at Rockfield, the legendary studio in Monmouth, Wales, recording live-to-tape. When they left, they had a sound. It is often contradictory, in that it combines the songwriting sensibilities of pop and country with arrangements reminiscent of the psychedelic scene of the 60s, six-part vocal harmonies with elements of noise rock, beautiful balladry with a sense of humour, and a cinematic quality. The result of those eleven days is debut album Ceremony, a record that searches for the profound in the seemingly routine, and reaches out with arms wide open to wring celebration out of each moment. Ceremony will be accompanied by a short film documenting the creation of the album called ‘Come The Ringing Bell’.