La Rue, Lava - Prince of Bologna

Speedy Wunderground founder and producer-in-demand, Dan Carey, first discovered Lava while attending a festival. He says “I was wandering around Latitude Festival in 2021 and came across Lava La Rue, and watched their set. When it finished, I remember thinking that I’d seen the coolest person ever. I wanted to make a record with them… and 5 years later, I finally got to make a Lava La Rue Speedy Single!”

The resulting single, “Prince Of Bologna”, is a high adrenaline melange of motorik overdriven guitars, organ, and raucous digitally augmented drumming that just breaks the 2-minute mark. The track was written and co-produced with Tomasso Medica (Husky Loops), and is an ode to overheard conversations with lyrics such as “I think Turnstile is for girls”, “I’m rejecting my OBE”, and “I am famous! On Reddit!”.

Speaking on the single Lava says, “Prince of Bologna is lyrically a speed date of conversations I’ve overheard. sort of like a love poem to getting fragments of other people's opinions in the smoking area of the George Tavern.

Tommaso, my dear friend from Bologna, had found a beat up 70s Italian organ with a built-in vintage drum machine that we pretty much jammed the whole initial idea on in 30 mins at 1am in his flat in Tulse Hill.

I showed the idea to Dan Carey, and he told me to get the band in his studio to flesh it out into a full Speedy Wunderground single - straight recorded live on to tape as a full band, lights off, yada yada.”