It's all stacking up for Zico Chain - a pilgrimage through New Mexico to complete the debut album; the live show bigged up by childhood heroes Duff and Slash; opening Download at Donington; US label execs booking trips to Shoreditch council estates to meet ‘em; being tipped as frontrunners of the new rise of Brit Rock. Does it get any better?

….well, yeah it does - Zico Chain's new single "Anemia" is the rawest of riffs championing the long way to the top for the underdog..... "I don't wish for a life of open doors, I feel much bigger than this." Anemia follows the Radio One Rock Show Record Of The Week ‘Where Would You Rather Be?’, and is released on 13th August.

Zico Chain are three lads in their early twenties, who have distilled the punk riffola of Motorhead, the druggy vision of QOTSA, the musical skills of the White Stripes, and a 21st century homegrown social consciousness. It’s a potent brew, worthy of a hard-rocking, hard-living, hard-thinking east London outfit.

LIVE DATES

August

1st Bristol Carling Academy

2nd Trowbridge Terry’s

3rd Plymouth White Rabbit

4th Yeovil Collision Course Festival

5th Leeds Collision Course Festival

7th Sheffield Leadmill

8th Birmingham Carling Academy

9th Glasgow Barfly

10th Aberdeen Tunnels

11th Arbroath Viewfield Hotel

13th Newcastle Carling Academy

14th York Fibbers

15th London Barfly