THE ULTRA VIOLETS

SEX

The Ultra Violets are an indie pop rock quintet from Cornwall comprising Perran Nicholls on vocals, guitar, Marc Willoughby on lead guitar, vocals, Adam Knucky on bass, Stuart Morrall on keys, vocals and Tyler Harris on drums.

The band’s debut single ‘ROMANCE’ was mixed by Dave Sanderson (Reverend & The Makers producer), and was released in April 2021.
It’s a song telling a story celebrating love between two people. The track gained the band airplay on the likes of Radio X and Amazing Radio.

“…their debut single ‘Romance’ has festival main stage written all over it.” – ClunkMag

The bands follow up single, ‘WATERGATE BAY’, was released in October 2021 and was aptly dubbed to be “definitely a crowd- pleaser” by RGM Mag and thus confirmed by a chorus singing 6000 strong audience whilst the band were playing support to pop legends McFly.

“I love that, so good, The Ultra Violets, Watergate Bay, there is a romance about it!” – Janice Long,
BBC Radio Wales.

To date, The Ultra Violets have supported indie legends The Pigeon Detectives and Space aswell as pop legends McFly. Playing stages at Boardmasters, Leopallooza and the Isle of Wight festival

The band are now back with their latest offering the tongue in cheek twist in the tale tune ‘SEX’.

‘SEX’ is a rock n roll anthem which while may seem a fun throw away quip, actually deals with a more serious subject matter. Perran recalls the tale of how the tune came to be in existence.

‘“Sex’ came about after Marc was telling me this unfortunate story about his friend, the next day I picked up the guitar as the story was still fresh in my mind. I had the melody first, so I kept singing the main hook. SEX SEX SEX over and over, then I remembered the details Marc had told me the previous night, so I started pencilling it in to fit the melody.

The gist of the story goes…
Boy meets girl …. the twosome were both heavily into each other, so a few dates later they are on a night out and it’s all going really well. Things are intensifying so when the end of the night comes, they go back to her house, there’s only one thing on the cards and after hours of lust building, she says to him let’s have (SEX SEX SEX) the inevitable happened… or shall I say didn’t happen, the pressure of it all , the pure intensity from this encounter, meant the poor lad…. you guessed it.. he couldn’t get it up, and it left the girl confused and upset, she couldn’t understand his situation at all and she broke things off soon after. Savage.

And the line “and I know no one talks about it, so I’m gonna sing about, yeah I’m gonna sing
about it” is about that no one ever talks about erectile dysfunction, so this song is for all the guys who find it all a bit too much sometimes, we stand with you… as we’ve all been there!”

So, while the subject matter of the track may have a more serious message, the actual tune itself is a pure rock n roll anthem filled with fuzzing guitars, distorted gravely vocals and massive chorus chanting hook lines.