A song written on a guitar once owned by Butch Vig has been released by the band Giant Killers with a share of the proceeds going to help suicide prevention.
‘When This Time is Over’ released on May 24, across all platforms on Little Genius Productions will raise money for the Campaign Against Living Miserably.
The single follows the critically acclaimed ‘Songs For The Small Places’, which was released three decades after it was recorded.
Band members Jamie Wortley and Michael Brown were originally signed to RCA in 1995 when they released two singles – however the album they recorded never saw the light of day.
“We’re now committed to a string of single releases throughout 2024 starting with, ‘When This Time is Over’. The song has a great back story; it was the first one we wrote as Giant Killers, and it was written on a guitar owned by Butch Vig.
“The guitar was in the safe keeping of our mate Simon Gunning, the artist manager who looked after Vig’s later incarnation as Garbage. We knocked around Simon’s office after business hours because we lived in relative poverty in an empty office down the corridor and his place was well… warmer. We’d seen Butch playing that guitar so often when he visited Simon on business, we picked it up in the hope his magic might rub off from his fingers and onto our musical endeavors.”
The band has just announced they will be opening the main stage at the Shiiine On Festival in November.
