The Enemy Set To Release New Album In May 2012

Music Week have been eager to share the good news that The Enemy will be releasing their third album in May 2012, alongside a UK tour. Read Tim Ingham's story below and pop over to Music Week for lots more news from the music industry......

Cooking Vinyl has scored a coup by signing Coventry-based three-piece The Enemy, with a new album set for release in May next year.

They join the UK indie label on a royalty deal for the world release of the LP, which they begin work on at Kore studios in Acton this month - with The Bronx’s Joby J. Ford in the producer’s chair. They will be announcing live dates to coincide with the album’s release.

The Enemy were previously signed to Warner for Platinum-selling debut album We’ll Live and Die In These Towns (No.1, 2007), and Gold-selling follow-up Music For The People (No.2, 2009).

Lead singer Tom Clarke was outspoken about the signing - and his former label: “My experience of record labels is as follows: the big ones have got big lawyers who want to pull your pants down and fuck you for fun while telling you they're doing you a favour. And they are all about one thing – money.

“The smaller ones are about two things – people and music. Success is possible because, when a small team of enthusiastic people care, they are capable of creating something that no big label or their lawyers can buy, passion. You can't take 25% of net passion.

“Cooking Vinyl have got bags of passion, and look where it’s got them; The Prodigy put out some of their finest work on Cooking Vinyl, The Subways tugging at the Radio One A list, that's a guitar band on the A list in 2011. That is where passion gets you, and right now it's gotten us into the studio, excited, enthused and passionate about being a band again. Something which our previous label miserably failed to achieve.

“Long live Cooking Vinyl and all the proud people who make it what it is.”

The Enemy are managed by Nick Ember and David Bianchi for Various Artists Management, whose roster includes Reverend & The Makers, The Libertines, Carl Barat, Charli Xcx and Killing Joke.

*Source: Music Week / Tim Ingham

* OFFICIAL Enemy website: http://theenemy.com