The Zutons warm up for Glastonbury with soulful new single ‘Pauline’

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Glastonbury 2024 set, The Zutons have shared a new single, ‘Pauline’. Check it out below.The Liverpool band released their first album in 16 years, ‘The Big Decider’, on April 26, and ‘Pauline’ is the third single to come from the record.It’s a soulful-sounding track with plenty of groove and a real celebratory feel complete with saxophone, proving that the four-piece haven’t lost their spark over the last decade and a half.“Pauline is a song about all the women who have ever helped me in my life and the times you bump into them after years of not seeing them,” said frontman Dave McCabe. “You see how each other have grown but they still very much have the same spark about them.

Aunties, cousins, mums, nans and most of all my wife. It’s my ode to them all. Because without these women I wouldn’t be the man I am today.”Recently, McCabe opened up about the band’s biggest hit, ‘Valerie’, too.

While it was a success for The Zutons in 2006, it gained a whole new level of popularity when Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse released a cover the following year.He told NME in Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!

that the cover came about after Winehouse told him to “fuck off”, saying: “I walked out of the house in the strop, and she followed me and pleaded: ‘Please come back.