{"id":415756,"date":"2026-04-24T20:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/415756\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T20:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:14:15","slug":"luvcat-looks-back-on-ghostly-looking-lover-on-spooky-new-single-vampire-at-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/415756\/","title":{"rendered":"Luvcat looks back on “ghostly-looking lover” on spooky new single ‘Vampire At The Beach\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luvcat<\/a> has shared a new single, \u2018Vampire At The Beach\u2019. You can listen to it below.<\/p>\n

The track will appear on the Liverpool singer-songwriter and NME 100 alumni<\/a>\u2018s upcoming EP of \u201cvampiric love songs and murderous ballads\u201d, \u2018Lovebites\u2019, out May 22 via AWAL. Pre-order\/pre-save here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI once had this ghostly-looking lover who had this unsettling hold over me,\u201d explained Luvcat of the inspiration behind her latest single. \u201cI was almost waiting for him to bite my neck. He truly had me clamped between his teeth.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued: \u201cWe were watching a [Federico] Fellini film and seeing all these golden bodies dripping with sweat on the silky rocks of an Italian beach. I was just thinking, I can\u2019t imagine being on a summer holiday with you. You\u2019re a vampire.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the eerie, skeletal and piano-led first verse, Luvcat sings: \u201cHad dreams of Anacapri\/ When I fell asleep with a film on TV\/ Fellini\u2019s golden bodies\/ Lapped by the sea like melted ice cream.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later, she describes her partner as \u201cmilky-skinned and amber-eyed\u201c, adding: \u201cThink I loved you since the day you died.\u201d<\/p>\n

The theatrical final part of \u2018Vampire At The Beach\u2019 features the lines: \u2018\u201dI wanna be your Lady Madonna\/ Waltz wooden through the squares together\/ Swear it was the second I saw ya\/ I knew, that you\/ Would fuck me up forever\/ Fuck me up forever\/ Fuck me up forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

A beach-set official video \u2013 inspired by Tim Burton\u2019s Sweeney Todd\u2026\u00a0\u2013 is set to premiere on YouTube at 5pm BST today (Friday April 24). Tune in above, where you can also check out the lyric video.<\/p>\n

\u2018Lovebites\u2019 will pick up where Luvcat\u2019s debut album, 2025\u2019s \u2018Vicious Delicious\u2019<\/a>, left off. However, her material is said to have taken a \u201cdarker turn\u201d with \u201cdeeper stories for fans to sink their teeth into\u201d.<\/p>\n

The EP also includes the song \u2018Silent Killer\u2019, which Luvcat debuted at a show in London earlier this year. This was inspired by an almost-fatal carbon monoxide leak at the artist\u2019s flat in Camberwell.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt nearly killed me and two of my bandmates. We\u2019d had a bit of a wild night. Instead of staying up into the early hours like always, everyone had gone to sleep in a sort of delirious stupor. We had to drag each other out, already half-conscious thanks to the leaking boiler,\u201d she remembered.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was also black mould which was slowly secretly poisoning us all. The flat was magical at first but then I think it wanted us out. We were losing our minds a little. I was thinking about how the monoxide and mould could send you so mad that you do something really, really bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

The EP will contain \u2018He\u2019s My Man (The Anniversary)\u2019<\/a> featuring John Cooper Clarke<\/a> and \u2018Electric Chair\u2019 featuring Pete Doherty<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n

Luvcat is due to open for The Waterboys<\/a> this summer, and will perform at Isle Of Wight Festival<\/a>, TRNSMT<\/a>, Boardmasters<\/a> and Neighbourhood Weekender<\/a>. She has previously supported The Libertines<\/a> and The Last Dinner Party<\/a>, and played last year\u2019s Glastonbury<\/a> and Reading & Leeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking to NME for a Cover interview last autumn<\/a>, Luvcat discussed the theme of dark romance on her debut album, and how she wanted to keep some mystery around herself as an artist.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m drawn to artists that I don\u2019t know everything about; there\u2019s more intrigue there,\u201d she said. \u201cI just wanted to slowly weave this intoxicating world and hopefully get a few people drunk on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luvcat put together an accompanying \u2018All Hallows\u2019 Eve\u2019 playlist for NME<\/a>, with songs by The Cramps<\/a>,\u00a0The Cure<\/a>,\u00a0Nina Simone<\/a>,\u00a0My Chemical Romance<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luvcat has shared a new single, \u2018Vampire At The Beach\u2019. You can listen to it below. The track…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278,641],"class_list":["post-415756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-pop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}