Clowns by The Elegant Chasers

It’s easy to dwell. To be angry and upset about situations that have conspired against you. To feel cheated. It’s even easier when this has happened more than once. Then paranoia kicks in. There are those that will massage the paranoia and try and blame anyone but the culprits - i.e., themselves. The reality is it’s hard to shake off that feeling. Inevitably time is a healer but it still feels that justice was never served. Clowns was written from the perspective of The Company Man for most of the song…The Clown! Lyrically I took inspiration from the people that hurt me most in the last decade or so. People who I thought I could trust. But it was just the same old story, just like many of you who have suffered under the corporate kings, rogues, rats, fools, the pretenders, the charlatans, the clowns. Call them what you like, they deliver the same outcome, a stab in the back, and quite often you’re thrown out to the wolves. You could even apply the same principle to our government but it would be easy to call it a song about Boris, it’s not. Some defiance is shown on the chorus, this time from the victim and in this case my perspective - “I’ll kick you down with the corner of my big shoe, upset the clowns.” As if to say I’ll have my say one day… and that day is Friday April 22nd.
Musically I wanted something dirty, catchy and with a huge riff. The tremolo effect at the start is a recurring theme throughout. Partly inspired by the REM song “What’s The Frequency Kenneth.” I wanted the listener to be engaged as the song reaches its final guitar solo and crescendo. “The camera clicks as I take the stage with my make up running dry, the contracts null, the jokes on me, I never read the warning signs…” Those Clowns have had several days in the sun and their time is now up. Upset the Clowns? This song may just do that.

Clowns is Performed, Produced, Mixed & Mastered by Maz Loizou. A full-length HD video will also be available on YouTube.

Just like on Foo Fighters' debut album there is 1 mastermind behind The Chasers, Maz Loizou. Having been made redundant he retrained as a fire alarm engineer. Feeling cheated & drained he wrote songs around a derelict London. First 4 singles received 20000 streams. Debut Album Sentimental Dust dropped in '22, But Maz disappeared from the limelight. However the Chasers are back with a bang in 2024!