Micko & The Mellotronics Announce New Single
Micko & The Mellotronics have announced their new single, “Would You Believe It”, set for release on 31st July 2025 via Landline Records.
“Would You Believe It” is a song about first moments and last moments, and frontman Micko Westmoreland’s experience of each. Sonically indebted to the new wave era, the track finds Micko journeying to the heart of it all, declaring, “Do what you can to make it okay, find a peace, prepare the way.” The initial inspiration for the song came from Micko’s father, as he explains:
“The phrase that holds the song’s title, my Dad said to me when suffering pneumonia in hospital, he was so pleased to see me! The line of course holds contradictory meanings and I knew there was a song in there but had to wait a few years for the rest of it to turn up. Its lyrical coda came by way of my old chum Neil Innes. When my son was born he said to me, you realise what we are put here to do. Make more of ourselves.”
Micko is joined on the track by Paul Cuddeford on guitar and ebow, Budge Magraw on bass, and Jan Noble on drums (both ex-Cesarians). The Mellotronics frontman worked closely with Cuddeford, in particular, on the arrangements for the new album in between his commitments with Holy Holy, The Boomtown Rats and his solo work. Chris Kimsey (The Rolling Stones), a friend of Micko’s, was involved in production advice on the track.
The new track is also accompanied by a black-and-white music video, directed by Cameron Poole, which sees Micko wading through water fully dressed. “I realised I had to get in the water,” the singer explains, “and that would hold considerable meaning in itself with notions of rebirth, cleansing and transformation. That became the purpose of the film and is also the lyrical centre of the song. The use of black and white and creative colour was put together by Cameron and I. It was the second time we had worked together and we both felt had crystallised into something symbiotic to the song.”
“Would You Believe It” marks the first single from Micko & The Mellotronics’ upcoming album ‘The Trinity’, scheduled for release in early 2026. Thematically, the record takes from the experience of mid-life issues, reflections on the past, politics with a small “p” and social observation. Human behaviour and its motivations have always been key elements in Westmoreland’s work.
About Micko & The Mellotronics:
The Mellotronics formed in 2017 with the intention of turning Micko Westmoreland’s songwriting skills into a dynamic live prospect, and released their debut album ‘1/2 Dove 1/2 Pigeon’ in 2020. The new incarnation of The Mellotronics sees Micko’s rabble-rousing vocals and spiky, agitational guitar work augmented perfectly by the crack squad of drummer Jan Noble and Budge Magraw on bass (both previously from The Cesarians). Paul Cuddeford (Boomtown Rats) moonlights when in town.
Since then they’ve been busy cutting their teeth with a series of shows around the capital and beyond, making return visits to the 100 Club in Oxford Street and earning multiple requests for support slots from acts as established as Evan Dando (Lemonheads), The Woodentops (who Micko now plays guitar with), David Devant & His Spirit Wife, Blue Orchids, Sheep on Drugs, The Television Personalities and The Monochrome Set. Bringing a new dimension of sharp and economic post-punk/new wave attitude to the diverse Westmoreland songbook, they’ve been already been favourably compared to The Jam, PiL, Wire, XTC and Pulp as well as the mean, lean but undeniably powerful sound of Idles or Shame. The Mellotronics however have their own sound although the above references may spring to mind.
Feature Image Photo Credit: Peter Tainsh
Micko & The Mellotronics will release their new single on “Would You Believe It”, on Thursday 31st July via Landline Records.
Pre-save here: https://republicofmusic.lnk.to/WouldYouBelieveIt
Thursday 31st July – Paper Dress Vintage, London (with Cult Figures)
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