RUDE GIRL REVUE
RUDE GIRL REVUE TO RELEASE HOLIDAY 45 ON JUMP UP RECORDS, 10/16
The all-female, all-star ska/reggae crew, Rude Girl Revue will be giving the holiday gift of new music to their fans with the release of two brand new, original songs on this year’s Jump Up Records Holiday 45, to be released on November 16. The disc kicks off with “Behind Every Santa, There’s A Mrs. Clause”, a vintage-inspired tune that would fit nicely between tracks by Brenda Lee and The Beach Boys, while tweaking the old “behind every good man, there’s a good woman” adage for the holidays. It is backed by “Slay Belles”, a dub reggae sound collage of femme empowerment partially inspired by the bitch tracks of drag queens. Both songs were recorded at Version City Studios with NYC ska capo King Django engineering the session. Django himself mixed “Slay Belles”, while Hub City Stompers’ guitarist Rob George mixed “…Mrs. Clause”.
This holiday 45 will be released on Night Two of Slackfest Chicago, which is being held at Reggie’s on November 15-16, and at which Rude Girl Revue will be direct support for NYC’s Jamaican rock’n’roll stallwards, The Slackers. With joyful artwork by Ben Heighton, this will be a limited pressing of 500 records on red, white, and green vinyl.