After nearly two years, Parlour Bells performs live for the first time as part of the Malden Music Series on August 7, 2021. The event is outdoors and FREE to the public. 1-6PM, 88 Pleasant Street, Malden. Sponsored by the excellent SUM Studios.

Parlour Bells became a thing in 2010. So celebrating our first decade making music was a BIT unusual this year to say the least. That being said, we actually managed to get away with quite a bit. So, as we hobble into 2021 with everyone else, we are excited to debut not only this new single but our new member, Allison Sigrist. With Allison we share a love of Freddie and Bowie and above all KEYBOARDS. Listen to what we’ve accomplished, musically together, though still quite far apart! This is SUPERCOMPUTER.

The second dispatch from our quarantine-be-damned collection of new original recordings Survival of the Patient: The Antibody Sessions is available now.  

Boston Emissions with Anngelle Wood Interview – At Home with Goddamn Glenn of Parlour Bells

Anngelle and Glenn discuss how they are both adapting to making and showcasing music during the pandemic. Lots of ideas for what might be next for the new normal in music.

Like everyone else, Parlour Bells has reassessed what would be possible in the months to come. The rough plan we had was to enter the studio and record our next release, To Be Or Not To Behave.

Making a new record for us always involves a number of engineers, creatives and vendors. A lot of hardworking people.

We’re eager for the day we can get back in a proper studio. Frankly, we’re eager for the day we can simply see each other and rock out in the same room. But distance has scattered us and we find ourselves having to make do with very little.

That being said, Parlour Bells might be uniquely suited for this scrappy moment. I may author the songs, but they are mere sketches until I share with my visionary bandmates who, with their immense talent, bring my silly ideas to life.

In the early days of this thing, I was encouraged watching how fast my wife and so many others quickly adapted their skills and expertise to new formats. It’s rare to see a generation mobilize and acclimate like we have now. It’s inspiring. Parlour Bells is adapting as well.

Survival of the Patient: The Antibody Sessions from Parlour Bells will be a developing compilation of sketches aspiring to become something more. It will be Parlour Bells working remotely and away from each other. Our first smoke signal from the isolation camp is called The Ballad of Felix Moncla. Something that feels appropriately lonely and alien.

I hope Parlour Bells can help you kill some time. Kill some time with us. And wash those hands…we’ll all be putting them together again someday soon.

G

The “Tape” is Real. The first music video from Parlour Bells in 5 years, “Sanctuary Cities,” has arrived!

The first full length album from Parlour Bells, Waylaid in the Melée, is now available for download and streaming on Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music and more!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 7/29/15

Boston’s own glittery rock powerhouse Parlour Bells will perform on Sunday 8/2/15 at Blue Hills Bank Pavilion in support of legendary English 80s pop ensemble Culture Club. Perhaps one of the most representative bands of the 1980s, Culture Club, fronted by iconic singer Boy George, gave us international hits such as “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me”, “Time (Clock of the Heart)”, “I’ll Tumble 4 Ya”, “Church of the Poison Mind”, “Karma Chameleon” and “Miss Me Blind.”

Parlour Bells recently returned from a fantastic showing at The Outlaw Roadshow in Nashville, and then helped its hometown bid farewell to Boston’s beloved TT the Bear’s the Place on 7/22/15. Fronted by the eye-shadowy and theatrical Goddamn Glenn, Parlour Bells delivers the blistering, soulful guitar virtuosity of Boston’s great Nathaniel Leavitt, infectious basslines of Brendan Boogie, the shimmering synth, grace and power of Magen Tracy, and the visceral thunder of Paul Myers on drums. This impeccably dressed, stylish band was named one of Boston’s Ten Top live acts by The Improper Bostonian, has been cited as one of Boston’s best by CBS, and has scored two Boston Music Awards nominations. In 2013 their video for barroom anthem “Bachelor Hours” earned a Video of the Year Nomination. And in 2014, Parlour Bells was nominated Live Artist of the Year.

Since forming in 2010, Parlour Bells has seduced its audience with boozy, sexy anthems like Pet Names, Speak Up, O Holiday and You Don’t Wear That Dress, The Dress Wears You (featuring Morphine’s Dana Colley on sax). They caught the attention of guitarist Dave Navarro with their acoustic cover of Jane’s Addiction’s “Classic Girl.” Recently, the band has been teasing out singles like “Wetware” and “Celebrities On Ice,” science fiction rockers which will culminate in the band’s first ever full length release, expected in 2016.

On a personal note, Parlour Bells singer Goddamn Glenn considers Culture Club to be one of his earliest glam pop rock influences. He considers the exoticism and avante garde persona of Boy George to be fundamental to that of his own.

Culture Club
w Parlour Bells
Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
Boston MA
8/2/15, 7:30PM
Tickets Available at LiveNation