Watch English Teacher perform massive new song ‘Billboards’
nme.comEnglish Teacher have performed a new song called ‘Billboards’ – check out the footage below.The Mercury Prize-winning band and former NME Cover stars have played the track four times this year, according to Setlist.FM.
Its most recent outing was during a show in Montreal last Sunday (September 22).English Teacher were supporting IDLES on their current North American tour.
A fan-shot video of the latest ‘Billboards’ performance has since emerged online.Opening with an arpeggiated piano part, the track finds frontwoman Lily Fontaine singing about “a vital message that the Earth should see“.
She later recalls “screaming at a life in front of me“.After a tempo switch, Fontaine mentions the billboards in Leicester Square and says she’ll “purchase all the adverts on TV” before the song progresses into a soaring declaration of love.“If happiness wore a face / It would steal your smile, eyes / And carve them into the Hollywood Hills,” Fontaine sings, with a powerful and thumping instrumental then segueing into a shuffling outro. “‘Cause I know / If I ask him to give me a sign, he will.”Watch English Teacher perform ‘Billboards’ here:Earlier this month, English Teacher won this year’s Mercury Prize for their acclaimed 2024 debut album ‘This Could Be Texas’.
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