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Heavenly - Portland Town (7" single - yellow vinyl)
Heavenly - Portland Town (7" single - yellow vinyl)
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PRE-ORDER NOW FOR RELEASE 18 JULY 2025
US customers will have their orders fulfilled by Jigsaw in the US, so the postage costs are not insane. EU/EEA customers, please order through www.skepwax.bandcamp.com.
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It’s been a long time coming – 29 years in fact – but influential indie pop band Heavenly are releasing a new 7" single, on yellow vinyl. (A full album will follow in February 2026.)
‘Portland Town’ is as effervescent a pop song as any of Heavenly’s past recordings, with duelling vocals from Amelia and Cathy; looping, twanging, ‘how-did-he-do-that’ guitar escapades from Peter, and a super-catchy melody. As so often with Heavenly, though, the lyrics have real bite.
The song embraces those who find themselves on the margins of a hostile world where maleness, straightness and conformity are in the ascendant. So why Portland? It has always been a sanctuary – one of those places where difference is celebrated, a place where, as the song puts it, anyone can fit in.
The B side is a cover version of a much-loved Only Ones song, ‘Someone Who Cares’.
Copies of the 7” single will be available with a special signed postcard at Heavenly’s only show of 2025, at Islington Assembly Hall, London on 19th July, as part of the Skep Wax Weekender. To avoid delivery charges, you can opt to order it for collection there.
Heavenly are also re-issuing their fourth album “Operation Heavenly,” originally released in 1996, on vinyl on 25 July 2025.
Heavenly are: Amelia Fletcher (guitar, vocals); Cathy Rogers (guitar, vocals); Rob Pursey (bass); Peter Momtchiloff (guitar); Ian Button (drums).
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