PREGOBLIN

NOBODY LIKES ME – BABii REWORK out now

DEBUT ALBUM PREGOBLIN II(23/02/24)

“ PREGOBLIN II’s genre-straddling dexterity and melodic riches mark it out as a loser classic fit to rank alongside Beck and Daniel Johnston. The tunes are memorable and the execution’s forward-facing and inspired” ★★★★MOJO MAGAZINE

PREGOBLIN release a rework, by BABii, of their latest single Nobody Likes Me, with special guest vocalist Jessica Winter, through Strap Originals on 26th January. Nobody Likes Me single was premiered on Lauren Laverne’s BBC6 show-and is available to stream/purchase here:Nobody Likes Me

BABii says: “I was working on my new album at the end of last year when PREGOBLIN asked me if I wanted to mess around with their song. I gave it a listen and knew I could make it hit really hard, so that’s what I did!”

Nobody Likes Me, with its defiant lyrical mantra, is a deliciously infectious slab of disco pop. It is the third earworm to be released from the forthcoming album PREGOBLIN II, which is coming on 23rd February 2024. Previous singles from the album include These Hands AKA Danny Knife featuring Peter Doherty and Big Hitters featuring Armand Schaubroeck

The video for Nobody Likes Me was directed and filmed by Alex Sebley, Phoebe May Ford & Sophie at Coppin at Cheybassa Lodge (Rest Home), Hayling Island, Portsmouth watch NOBODY LIKES ME video

Says Alex: “Recently I was caring for my mum, in the last few months of her life, and this video kind of fits with that experience. My friend Vicki Knight is a nurse at a local care home and she gave me the idea. I would see Vicki at the pub between visiting with my mum.”

Packed with sublime melodies and unforgettable tragi-comic lyricism,PREGOBLIN II was recorded in Brixton and Margate and can be preordered on vinyl and CD here: PREGOBLIN II

Having toured with Peter Doherty and recently sold out their own headline shows at the Windmill in London and Left of the Dial Festival in Rotterdam. During January/February PREGOBLIN support Dutch 3-piece Pip Blom, Rotterdam multi instrumentalist Harry Merry & The Libertines and also perform at Simple Things festival in Bristol.

JANUARY

25th Thursday Milton Keynes MK11 (with the Libertines)

FEBRUARY

2nd Friday London Amp Studios (with Harry Merry)

17th Saturday Leicester Academy 2 (with Pip Blom)

19th Monday Cambridge Junction 2 (with Pip Blom)

20th Tuesday Brighton Chalk (with Pip Blom)

21st Wednesday London Heaven (with Pip Blom)

24th Saturday Bristol Simple Things Festival

The creative journey to this point has been labyrinthine and frequently painful. As far back as the early ’10s, Sebley was registering his embryonic talent alongside Lias and Nathan Saoudi in The Saudis, the chaotic pre-Fat White Family ensemble where he played guitar and co-authored raw, post-punk material including FWF’s breakthrough tune ‘Touch The Leather,’ before departing the band just as its ascent began.

PREGOBLIN II is a strange name for a debut album. For the artist who created it, Alex Sebley aka PREGOBLIN, its astonishingly heartfelt and brilliantly catchy assemblage of songs is the culmination of a tortuous genesis period. Its release finally, he hopes, will usher in a fresh, more positive chapter for him, a sequel to all the misery and bullshit up to this point – hence the title.

PREGOBLIN receive a healthy 50,000 plays a month on Spotify. Previous singles include: Combustion which to date has amassed 2.2M streams and was dubbed ‘Single of the year’ in The Quietus. Other PREGOBLIN songs include Anna (flowers Won’t Grow), Love Letters, Snakes & Oranges and Wimpy & Wimpy Lovewith the Pop Group.