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Beyond the Blues Thank You

Thank you to everyone who has bought and shared our new single ‘Beyond the Blues’ this week, for supporting new original music and for great comments, all very much appreciated. Some of you may remember the tune from our last tour. For the single, we recorded it with Hal’s original lyrics. This is his backstory: “It’s both a celebration and a lament, about age, death and the passing of cultural icons. Seeing how the passage of time makes the past recede, I was feeling conscious of the way that the cultural power of rock music was slipping into history, hence all the name drops referring to the heyday of rock, psychedelia and hippydom – when these things all felt so vital and relevant. (See if you can spot ’em all!).”

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Hal, John, Lou & Matt

Video filmed by Simon Baxter of Factor Fifty Films. If you’d like to buy the single we’d be very grateful. It’s on all the usual digital platforms, and Bandcamp is the one we recommend.

We filmed the video at O’Rileys, Hull. It’s an independent venue where we play, rehearse and have recorded the drum tracks for the new album. We’ve been back there this week recording the last few album backing tracks.

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Beyond the Blues is released on Scratch Plate Records via Label Worx. Thanks to Beat Filter PR. Hope you enjoy it, and if you listen and download it, thank you.

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Recording the New Album

Great to be back at O’Rileys this week, recording drum tracks for the album. Sounding goooood! Songs and arrangements are spot on. Really pleased! 

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Our newest single Beyond the Blues is released on Scratch Plate Records via Label Worx. Thanks to Beat Filter PR. Hope you enjoy it, and if you listen and download it, thank you.

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New Single Out Today!

Undead Guitars Turn Red Guitars Blue With New Single – ‘Beyond The Blues’

Ta daaa! We are delighted to announce that our (ace!) new single, ‘Beyond the Blues’ is out today. You can get it now on all the usual digital channels and from Bandcamp here: 

Released on Scratch Plate Records via Label Worx. Thanks to Beat Filter PR. Hope you enjoy it, and if you listen and download it, thank you.

The Lowdown

Red Guitars Hallam Lewis, John Rowley, Lou Duffy-Howard, and Matt Higgins release their third single as a four piece, under their current name, Undead Guitars. 

Beyond the Blues is released on January 30th 2026 on all the usual digital platforms and Bandcamp, via Scratch Plate Records.

The band’s new single is a spacey reflection on how music has changed through the last 40 years. 

Singer and songwriter Hallam Lewis explains: “It’s both a celebration and a lament, about age, death and the passing of cultural icons. Seeing how the passage of time makes the past recede, I was feeling conscious of the way that the cultural power of rock music was slipping into history, hence all the name drops referring to the heyday of rock, psychedelia and hippydom – when these things all felt so vital and relevant. (See if you can spot ’em all!). I also remembered Derek Jarman talking about the colour of death being blue and I dipped into that – Beyond the Blues. I love the atmospheric dubby echoes in the music, ‘disappearing into the ether’, and the almost inadvertent flavours of Ennio Morricone feed into the whole “riding off into the sunset” feel – our very own psychedelic spaghetti western.”

Watch the official video here: 

Video was filmed at O’Riley’s Music Venue in Hull by Simon Baxter of Factor Fifty Films. 

Undead Guitars last single ‘Blazing Zombies’ in October followed the band’s 2024 single ‘Ho Ho Hum’, released to raise funds for refugee charities Breaking Barriers and The Refugee Council.

This year the four founding Red Guitars members continue work on a new album with Hallam on lead vocals. The band are preparing for live shows next year, information to follow on the band’s website and social media pages: https://linktr.ee/Undead_Guitars

‘Beyond the Blues’ by Undead Guitars Scratch Plate Records Cat No SPR668 distributed by Label Worx is available from 30th January on Bandcamp and all the usual digital outlets.

Bandcamp link: https://undeadguitars.bandcamp.com/track/beyond-the-blues

Website: https://undeadguitars.co.uk/

Credits:

Beyond the Blues by Undead Guitars, formerly Red Guitars members: Hallam Lewis lead vocals and guitars, John Rowley guitar, Lou Duffy-Howard bass and backing vocals, Matt Higgins drums and percussion. Written by Hallam Lewis. Recorded and produced by Undead Guitars. Drums recorded at O’Rileys Music Venue, Hull. Video produced by Simon Baxter of Factor Fifty Films, filmed at O’Rileys Hull,

For more information and links to social media: https://linktr.ee/Undead_Guitars

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Red or Undead, we’re comin’ at ya!

New single, Beyond the Blues, Jan 30th. Undead Guitars turn Red Guitars Blue.

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Undead Guitars turn Red Guitars Blue 

New Single, Beyond the Blues, coming on January 30th 2026

via Scratch Plate Records and Label Worx

Undead Guitars: Hal, John, Lou and Matt

Thanks to Beat Filter PR

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Podcast Chat to Greg in Texas

I was invited to talk to Texas podcaster Greg Shanks for his Pale Blooms And Beyond show the other weekend. So, here I am burbling away about Red Guitars and other musical escapades. Thanks to Greg for the invitation.

I watched a few of his videos, very entertaining and insightful, Paul Trynka and Dave Wolfenden both notably good, so have a click around his channel for more. (Lou) 

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Good Technology Cowboy Video

Thanks to Bob Osborne’s Different Noises for his review and play of our Red Guitars x Jake Angel Good Technology Cowboy Mix and video.

“Founding Red Guitars member Lou Duffy-Howard collaborated with Nashville-based producer Jake Angel on a radical rework of Good Technology, dubbed the Cowboy Mix. The remix fuses rattlesnake slide guitar, fretless bass, and country hip-hop beats with distorted call-and-response vocals.  Lou restructured the vocal phrasing into a question–answer format, added new bass lines, and panned the responses for spatial effect. The accompanying video features surreal western imagery, including a bull moving in sync with the guitar solo. This mix stands apart from the official extended remix, offering a Dust Bowl-inflected reinterpretation of Red Guitars’ iconic critique of consumer tech.” Bob Osborne’s Rituals of Infinity, October 2025.

Listen to the show here: 

On Substack: https://bobosborne.substack.com/p/rituals-of-infinity

Or on Podbean: https://enlightenment.podbean.com/e/different-noises-115/

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