Daily Dose: Boy Azooga, “Do The Standing Still”
The track is a cover of Welsh punk band The Table's 1977 original
Photo courtesy of the artist Music Features Boy Azooga
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U.K.-based post-punk band Boy Azooga have shared the video for their cover of “Do The Standing Still,” originally by Welsh punk rockers The Table. The cover comes as Boy Azooga’s first standalone track since the release of their debut album, 1, 2 Kung Fu!, out now through Heavenly Recordings.
The track is an homage to the sort of music that makes up Boy Azooga’s musical bedrock: The chromatic, thumping punk of the Welsh original finds its mirror in some of the band’s sludgier productions, like Kung Fu! lead single “Loner Boogie.” And while Boy Azooga disco up the original’s gang shouts with a slick compressed vocal line, that, too, falls in line with what The Table were all about, which was staunch un-toughness. Boy Azooga frontman Davey Newington shared his reasoning on the choice of song in a statement:
[The Table] were signed to Virgin Records just as the punk thing was becoming harder. In response, the single cover shows the band stood in the women’s lingerie department of Oxford Street’s Marks & Spencer’s store … As huge comic book fans, the songs lyrics reference multiple Marvel Comic Fantastic Four titles amongst the other chaos … Apparently people used to rush the dance floor and stand still for the duration of the song when it came on in clubs or when the band played it live.
That satirical, eye-rolling response to British punk posturing is a sentiment that informs Boy Azooga’s disco-inspired, krautrock-borrowing take on the hard-edged hardcore music of their homeland. It’s a match made in heaven—or wherever punks go.
Listen to “Do The Standing Still” below. Boy Azooga will be touring the U.S. this fall—find those dates further down.
Boy Azooga Fall U.S. Tour Dates:
October
24 – Brooklyn, N.Y. @ Rough Trade
25 – Philadelphia, Pa. @ Kung Fu Necktie
28 – Seattle, Wash. @ Barboza
29 – Portland, Ore. @ Holocene
30 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ The Echo
November
01 – San Francisco, Calif. @ Cafe Du Nord