REAL FARMER

THE STRAIGHTEST LINE

“Because I walked the straightest line

I lost my way inside

Out that’s where I go

Drugs that’s all I know”

Real Farmer, released new single, The Straightest Line through Peter Doherty’s Strap Originals, yesterday (Wednesday 10th January). The Straightest Line is the second single, along with Inner City to be lifted from Real Farmer’s debut album, Compare What’s There, which is due for release on 8th March 2024, To celebrate the release the band have announced five headline shows in London, Exeter,Oxford, Bristol and Nottingham. Preorder Compare What’s There here now on limited edition coloured vinyl and digital download:

As active members of the vibrant local music scene with their wonderfully infectious punk noise, Real Farmer’s debut album Compare What’s There finds guitarist/vocalist Peter van der Ploeg, bassist/vocalist Marrit Meinema, singer Jeroen Klootsema and drummer Leon Harms concocting fast-paced, driving songs with wiry riffs, propelling drums, and winding melodies. Each track stands on its own, both expressing a nostalgia for a different time and reflecting the time and place the songs were written in, showing the multifaceted personalities that make up Real Farmer.

Groningen is one of the youngest cities in Europe, thanks in part to a ‘do it yourself’ nonprofit attitude, of which Real Farmer have become an integral part. If you weren’t born when the MC5, the Stooges or the Pixies were kicking out the jams, make Real Farmer your new jam. I promise you won’t be disappointed.

About the single “Straightest Line”:

“ It’s about walking the straightest line, which means to lead a clean life: to work out, eat healthy, stay away from drugs and alcohol. Often this way of living is seen as the one size fits all solution to any type of mental struggle, yet its rigidity can become a very debilitating and alienating thing.”

Compare What’s There was produced by Niek Van Den Driesschen and recorded at Far Out Sound Studios in Rotterdam.

Real Farmer will be playing six shows for Independent Venue Week in January and February on the ‘Triple Dutch Tour’ with fellow Dutch up-and-comers Personal Trainer (including members of Real Farmer) and The Klittens. In March the band are on the road again supporting Bull in Brighton along with five headline shows. The full dates are:

Listen to ‘The Straightest Line’ here how