Vamberator has teamed up with The Woodentops’ Rolo McGinty for a “I Need Contact” remix single on New Reality Records. The single features remixes of “I Need Contact” and “Creature in My House,” alongside a new video and a customised USB release. Vamberator consists of the duo Jemaur (Jem) Tayle (Shelleyan Orphan) and Boris Williams (The Cure). The original version of “I Need Contact” appears on Vamberator’s debut album “Age of Loneliness” (Unifaun Productions / Maracash, January 2025).

Rolo McGinty’s revision keeps Jem Tayle’s sparse piano framework and adds cellist Asakura Momoka. Tayle says: “The theme is loneliness in its many forms. The loss of loved ones, places, and the struggling need to connect with nature as it slowly disappears. Does a creature in the throes of extinction understand its plight? Does it continue to seek out a mate against all the odds?”

McGinty adds: “I kidnapped a cellist and down to the dungeon of decibels we went. Adding the cello made it more timeless … I added the audio of a very old diesel train … It’s very quiet in the mix, adding merely an atmosphere: industrial amongst the sombre string quartet tones.”

Our colleagues from Cold War Night Life premiered the video, calling the track “a slow-burning, cinematic remix … blending fragile strings and industrial hums into Tayle’s piano ballad.”

About Vamberator

Vamberator was formed in 2024 by Jemaur (Jem) Tayle (vocals, keys, songwriting) and Boris Williams (drums; ex-The Cure) after their work in Shelleyan Orphan and subsequent projects. The band is UK-based and records a pop/rock hybrid drawing on soul, art-pop, glam, and chamber-pop lineages noted in early coverage of their debut.

“Age of Loneliness” was released January 24, 2025, on Unifaun Productions / Maracash (CD, later digital). In 2025, New Reality Records issued two McGinty collaborations: “Creature in My House (Rolo McGinty Mix)” (August 12) and “I Need Contact (Rolo McGinty Mix)” (November 5), available digitally and on a limited USB format.

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Jem Tayle (Shelleyan Orphan) and Boris Williams (The Cure) have founded a new project, Vamberator.

Jem describes the transition from Shelleyan Orphan to Vamberator as follows: “After Caroline Crawley’s passing, I had been offered the chance to make a solo album. I had been writing on and off without a focus and not having someone to bounce off was new to me. Boris is family, and we have played together with Shelleyan Orphan live and in the studio on and off for years, so it felt very natural for us to work on this together. I am extremely fortunate to have a drummer of his calibre pounding out the rhythms on this album.”

Vamberator’s debut single, “Sleep the Giant of Sleeps” is from the forthcoming album “Age of Loneliness” (Unifaun Productions), and also features regular collaborator Charlie Jones (Goldfrapp, The Cult, Robert Plant et al) on bass.

Asked to describe the themes and inspirations behind the new single, Jem says: “Chasing trains, chasing dogs, chasing dreams, they always get away. Pushing your way through that froth on a daydream, sharing the gloom with ghouls and procrastinating – it’s all part of the daily merry-go-round. But there is always an unseen presence that comes to the rescue, sometimes in dreams, sometimes in the middle of the night as you cool yourself in front of that open fridge. It’s relentless though, and here it comes again, but there’s so much to do, but close your eyes and there she is again.”

“Sleep the Giant of Sleeps” by Vamberator is out now from Bandcamp, Spotify, and all the usual digital music stores worldwide.

Bernard - Side-Line Staff

Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!

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