Gurriers to feature on Music Venue Trust fundraising album with Wunderhorse, English Teacher, Opus Kink and more

Dublin rock band Gurriers have announced that they will feature on an upcoming compilation album to raise money for the Music Venue Trust and the UK Touring Artists Fund.

Arranged by English post-punk group Opus Kink, A Hideous Collection will include 24 tracks from 24 different artists, including Wunderhorse, Matt Maltese, English Teacher, Katy J Pearson, Lambrini Girls and more.

Opus Kink said the artist-led initiative aimed to support independent music venues and the artists who tour them at increasing costs.

"Touring independent music venues is like this: the most passionate organisers are the ones who do it on a shoestring and are often one bad season away from crumbling," Opus Kink said.

"Support for these venues and humans is starting to glimmer in the ashes through donations and awareness and the work of groups like MVT [Music Venue Trust], but as always, unfortunately, it must also take wresting a more fundamental and top-down offering from the industry to really stay the decimation of grassroots live music culture in this country. In the meantime, please enjoy the sounds of some of the artists who help to keep alive the places that birthed them and please buy this record so you can do that too."

Along with a foreword from BBC 6 Music DJ Steve Lamacq, the tracklist contains never-before-heard original songs, unreleased live recordings, demos, covers and more.

Opus Kink released their track 'Thank You Satan' as a single today, premiered this morning by Lamacq on BBC 6 Music.

Listen to 'Thank You Satan' below:

A Hideous Collection is set to be released on September 5 via Hideous Mink Records in partnership with SO Recordings. It will be available exclusively on vinyl and CD.

It is available for pre-order now on the Hideous Records online store.

See the full tracklist below:

VINYL 1
1A Steve Lamacq - A Foreword From Steve Lamacq
2A BIG SPECIAL - COOKED FISH
3A Katy J Pearson - Tonight
4A LUVCAT - He's My Man (live in Cologne)
5A Honeyglaze - Turn Out Right
6A Matt Maltese - Please Don't Kill Me
7B Opus Kink - Thank You Satan
8B Lambrini Girls - Big Dick Energy (live in Seattle)
9B Warmduscher - YAKUZA
10B TTSSFU - Upstairs
11B Hamish Hawk - Burning Up
12B Wunderhorse - Rain (live)

VINYL 2
1C Antony Szmierek - Independent Venue Week Poem
2C Friedberg - haha
3C HOT WAX - Chip My Teeth (Live at Rough Trade East)
4C Getdown Services - AONB
5C Gurriers - Approachable (Chris W. Ryan Version)
6C Nova Twins - Monsters (live)
7D cumgirl8 - Goblin
8D The Oozes - The Entertainer
9D Los Bitchos - Turkish Delight
10D Oracle Sisters - Wait For Me
11D English Teacher - Yorkshire Tapas
12D mary In The Junkyard - ghost (demo)