An Official Missive from The House of SHOUSE, Clarifying the Origin and Intention of “Love Tonight” - the Underground Anthem of Love Sweeping the Globe (Years After its Release)
Love Tonight is a song of connectedness and togetherness, uniting the world in solidarity during a time of isolation, and now in ecstatic love during a time of release.
Who among us can define the true origins of Love Tonight?
Sometime in the early 2010’s Jack and Ed of SHOUSE were visiting friends in Chautauqua, upstate New York. After a long night of strange meetings and chance encounters, they were invited to an ageing recording studio near the Chautauqua Lake.
The studio, built deep underground, was like a time capsule from the height of the Disco era. They were warmly welcomed into the collective of musicians, who were still living out their glory days after all those decades, and spent a long night creating music together.
After returning back home to Australia, they began to reflect on their night deep underground. Although most of the night would remain in Chautauqua, one particular fragment returned with them. One melody. One hook.
In that little bunker in Chautauqua Jack and Ed were introduced to a spirit that has remained with them.
In that spirit Love Tonight was born.
For many years SHOUSE would play the song Love Tonight in local shows around Melbourne. It became a commonly chanted refrain on dancefloors, at warehouse parties, and at techno raves throughout Melbourne’s North. The momentum demanded they record the song.
In the collective spirit of Chautauqua SHOUSE asked many artists from Melbourne’s thriving underground electronic scene to help record the song. Creating a beautiful choir of friends and comrades, SHOUSE recorded the anthem in a warehouse deep in industrial Brunswick.
The song, created by and for the small Melbourne scene, has been simmering away throughout different networks for years. From the deepest dance clubs of Eastern Europe & Russia, to hazy hedonistic rituals of Burning Man, the endless sunsets of Tulum, or boats on the Mediterranean. Wherever there was vibe, Love Tonight would play on the soundtrack.
But it was only in 2020, a time of global pandemic, that the song, play by play, passed along word to ear, and stream by stream, spread across the globe.
Love Tonight has become so many things for so many people. A declaration of love during a time of isolation. A demonstration of solidarity. A cry of collective strength.
No matter what obstacles we face, we can all come together to help each other out, to sing each other's songs, show each other love and pull each other up when we’re down.
Now, as dancefloors open and we begin to come together again, the song is becoming an anthem of release. The song creates a moment on the dancefloor, uniting us as we shake the isolation out of our limbs. A chant, a refrain, a hymn of connectedness and of the ecstatic: the love of moving and singing together as one.
As we reach the middle of 2021, four years after release, the support for Love Tonight continues to grow, finding its refrain echo across places of dance across the world, commandeered by a multiverse of DJs, Digital Stores, & Radios.
Thankful for the embrace of Love Tonight, SHOUSE are once again dreaming of Chautauqua. Jack and Ed have spent much of 2020 locked down in Melbourne and are ready to reach out across the world in the spirit of Love Tonight.
That is all we need.
All the above are attributable as quotes to SHOUSE & those seeking veracity can find it at www.shouseshouse.com
