Well, you did help Wellerman become rather a massive chart hit. No, we don’t want to slag it off, we just don’t want to hear it for a while. Tom: Whereas Wellerman is a pint of Mead. We want When You’re Out screamed in Wetherspoons up and down the country. Sam: You’re right – maybe a pina colada blended with something. A When You’re Out cocktail is a really good idea actually. Mae: It feels like a cheeky drink, like it’s got some pink gin in it. I’m not responsible for my actions when that happens.Ī post shared by Official Charts of, if When You’re Out was a cocktail, what kind of drink are we talking? Mae: Right? Imagine hearing this song in a club for the first time. It’s cool to get this track to a new audience – just in time for clubs to open I hope. There was a lot of waiting and it was looking tricky for a while, but we got to a point where everyone was happy in the end. Tom: It was incredibly difficult! The writers are from America and they were hard to get to at first.
Was getting clearance to sample the song tricky? Then we had to get the labels and management to sort out all the politics. We’ve always been in the same circles as Mae and we wanted to do a track together, and the range we made this at made it perfect for Mae and she kindly said yes. Sam: Me and Tom heard the track - it came on shuffle somewhere, probably down the pub - and we immediately looked at each other and were like, we need to rework this. Hands up, whose bright idea was it to rework Kandi’s Don’t Think I’m Not? We discussed that and more when we jumped on the phone with the pair and Mae to discuss their new track. Pre-Wellerman, Billen Ted’s journey to the top of the charts is an unlikely one both were members of death metal bands before they turned their hands to dance music. In case you missed it, social media is currently awash of 2000s nostalgia, and on When You're Out Billen Ted have managed to find that sweet spot by reworking a gem that feels familiar, but wasn’t so successful that they can’t play around with it (their version has a new verse and pre-chorus). The vocals come courtesy rising pop star Mae Muller, whose 2020 single Therapist and EP No One Else, Not Even You are well worth checking out. The track is a fresh spin on Kandi’s Don’t Think I’m Not, turning the R&B-pop classic into a 2 minute and 30 second sugar rush of dance-pop.
Their follow-up single When You’re Out – released today (June 4) – is exactly that. After landing one of the biggest hits of the year so far with their dance-pop remix of sea shanty Wellerman, the duo – Tom Hollings and Sam Brennan - are committed to keep delivering music that is, in their words, all about “having fun, good times - and doesn’t take itself too seriously”.
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