{"id":12513,"date":"2020-02-04T08:29:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T08:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=12513"},"modified":"2020-02-04T08:29:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T08:29:12","slug":"heavy-pettin-releases-first-new-ep-4-play-on-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2020\/02\/04\/heavy-pettin-releases-first-new-ep-4-play-on-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"HEAVY PETTIN’ Releases First New EP ‘4 Play’ on Valentines Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

HEAVY PETTIN<\/strong>‘ have announced the release of their first new EP ‘4Play<\/strong>‘ on Valentines Day – February 14, 2020. The first batch of new\u00a0HEAVY PETTIN<\/strong>‘ songs recorded in over 30 years. Pre-order the EP here:\u00a0https:\/\/heavypettinofficialmercandise.bigcartel.com<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Track Listing :<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Get Back To You
2. Tell Me Why
3. Who We Are
4. Hard to Hold<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘4Play<\/strong>‘ was recorded at SOR Studios Great Linford in Autumn 2019. Produced and mixed by Gordon Albert Bonnar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cover concept by Mike Badaracco and cover design by Andy Pilkington at Very Metal Art. B&W foro front cover by Adam Stone. Back inside cover by Michael Bruce – MB Photography Scotland. Inside front, and back cover photos by P.G.Brunelli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hamie<\/strong> has said: \u201c\u2026the demand and support for new HEAVY PETTIN<\/strong>‘ material has been so overwhelming, we are excited to say we\u2019re now working on brand new HP Album and other projects will also be released later in 2020\u2026 and it\u2019s going great!<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2020 touring season starts with The Monsters of Rock Cruise \u2018MORCX\u2019<\/strong> Feb 8th<\/sup> 2020 (Florida, Belize, & Mexico) and a Premier Launch for the bands EP 4 Play<\/strong> with Sirus Fm\u2019s<\/strong> Eddie Trunk<\/strong> and KNAC<\/strong>\u2019s Metal Will<\/strong> on the Worlds largest cruise ship Independence of the Sea<\/strong> before the band return to UK to headline Brofest UK <\/strong>on Feb 28th<\/sup> 2020, Also Heavy Pettin\u2019<\/strong> Headline laNau<\/strong> in Barcelona <\/strong>June 6th<\/sup> 2020 with many more dates to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HEAVY PETTIN<\/strong>‘ is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen (Hamie) Haymen – Vocals
Gordon Bonnar – Guitars, Vocals
Mick Ivory – Drums
Jez Parry – Bass, Vocals
Dave (Davo) Aitken – Guitars, Vocals<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HEAVY PETTIN<\/strong>‘ first stirred into action when vocalist Hamie, guitarists Gordon Bonnar and Punky Mendoza, drummer Gary Moat and bassist Brian Waugh first burst out of Glasgow in 1981. They were vibrant, priapic, anthemic and focused. As they showed on a three-track demo, and on the subsequent debut single for independent label Neat (\u2018Roll The Dice\u2019\/\u2019Love Xs Love<\/strong>\u2019), they were more than mere Def Leppard slaves. In fact, the Pettin\u2019 had an international sound that owed something to AC\/DC<\/strong>, UFO<\/strong>, Thin Lizzy<\/strong> and Foreigner<\/strong>, but also had its own raging momentum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not that the band found the road straightforward. But, thanks to a work ethic that took them around the country, plus a valuable session for Radio 1\u2019s prestigious \u2018Friday Rock Show\u2019, the band eventually landed a crucial deal with the major label Polydor Records. Moreover, their 1983 debut album (\u2018Lettin\u2019 Loose\u2019) was co-produced by the creative Mack together with Queen guitarist Brian May. Now, that\u2019s pedigree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amazingly, that album has survived more than 20 years of high-speed hi-tech developments intact. While other, more celebrated records have dated badly, \u2018Lettin\u2019 Loose\u2019 re-affirms the belief back then that the Pettin\u2019 would follow Leppard to big time stature. What went wrong at the time has little to do with the band, or lack of ambition\/talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In America, where they should have broken big long before Bon Jovi gave Love A Bad Name, they were held back by the label\u2019s insistence on an anaemic re-mix (as well as a title change to \u2018Heavy Pettin\u2019, which caused more confusion than anything else). If the band\u2019s essential, vital British brio had been left as conceived in the first place, who knows what might have been achieved. Still, a slot on the bill for the 1983 Reading Festival, the day that Black Sabbath infamously headlined when fronted by Ian Gillan, did them no harm and touring with Kiss<\/strong>, Ozzy,<\/strong> and Motley Crue<\/strong> helped the quintet\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later, the Pettin\u2019 return to the studio, this time with producer Mark Dearnley (who\u2019d worked with AC\/DC and Krokus). The result? \u2018Rock Ain\u2019t Dead\u2019, which surprised many with a slicker yet conversely tougher approach. The lads really had progressed, although ironically if things had gone to plan, this would have been produced by Lance Quinn, of Bon Jovi and Lita Ford fame. However, just hours before the band were due to fly to Philadelphia, to work with Quinn at his Warehouse Studios, the decision was taken by PolyGram (to whom both Heavy Pettin and Bon Jovi were signed in the US) that, instead, he should start work immediately on what was to be Jovi\u2019s second record, \u20187800 Degrees Fahrenheit\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps then, it should have been obvious that record company politics were to scupper Pettin in the crucial American market. Despite continuing to show up well in the UK, once again the US was to prove elusive \u2013 through no fault of the five musicians. In many respects, this was the point when the writing was scrawled over every available wall space. Regardless of their obvious determination and grassroots support in Britain, it seemed as if Pettin\u2019s realistic chance of significant international success had gone. A third album, \u2018The Big Bang\u2019, was released by FM Revolver in 1989. Although it still proved this lot were way ahead of so many others who were selling truckloads of units and getting acclaim from the media; as the 1980s faded into memory, so too did Heavy Pettin\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Driven by a desire, a passion and a capacity simply to invoke the magic and rapport the band enjoyed, they released Prodigal Songs in 2007. The album was well-received by their loyal fans and the limited pressing sold out making it a highly sought-after collector\u2019s item.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2017, original members Hamie, Punky, and Gordon joined by Jez Parry on bass and Michael Ivory on drums performed for the first time in 25 years at Scotland\u2019s Winter Storm. Reinvigorated, Heavy Pettin, now joined by ex-Gun guitarist Dave Aitken due to Punky hanging up his guitar and going into retirement, did several shows in 2018 including a 6 date UK tour, with 3 sold-out gigs in Nottingham, London and Edinburgh, as well as 2 sold-out headline gigs in Milton Keynes and Glasgow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2019\u00a0Heavy Pettin\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0assault started in North Wales with HRH AOR Festival, then off to Germany\u2019s Headbangers Open Air Festival in July, and Aug\/Sept tour including The Golden Age of Rock Festival Belgium, with\u00a0Dee Snider<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Angel<\/strong>, plus a mainland British tour with\u00a0RockGoddess<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/heavypettinofficial\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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