Manchester, UK’s Aerial Salad are set to return to the fray with a brand new five track EP, Roi De L’Herbe, that will be released on the 27th June on vinyl and digital formats via Venn Records. The band have now shared a brand new video for King Of The Grass, one of the EP’s most spirited, infectiously melodic and pure fun songs. The track is a tribute and celebration of Aerial Salad’s bass player Mike ‘Wimbo’ Wimbleton, not only does Mike possess the best moustache in punk rock since Husker Du‘s Greg Norton, he also works for the council and is the prime operator of a badass sit-down lawn mover.

“I wanted a song where we could celebrate Wimbo, He is truly one of Manchester’s most treasured musicians, genuinely, most people that know Wimbo would take a bullet for him, the same can’t be said for some other “so-called-legends”- no one I know is taking a physical bullet for Noel Gallagher after coughing up the best part of 300 quid to see him. Anyways, musical, mythical or moderate legend Mike Wimbo works at the council to help us pay for things like this EP and this music video, it’s a horrible job some days when it’s crashing down with rain and he’s picking up dead cats off pavements, but he has a positivity and enthusiasm for not letting “the bastards” grind him down, it’s inspiring, in a lot of ways, we all have our own grass, that looming dark cloud that comes to haunt your Sunday evenings, but fuck it, he’s the king of the grass our Mike, go be the king of your own grass, it’s now or never.” (guitarist and singer Jamie Munro)

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