- 2025-08-27
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MUSIC
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Overmono Premieres New Version of High Contrast's “If We Ever” on BBC Radio 1
London-based electronic music duo Overmono, consisting of Tom Russell and Ed Russell, premieresd a new version of Welsh-based DJ High Contrast's “If We Ever” on BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Sian Eleri.
The original version of the song was released by High Contrast in 2007 from his third studio album “Tough Guys Don't Dance”.
The duo first performed the song at Bristol's Love Saves The Day back in May. The track then went viral after their Glastonbury set in June.
Following the buzz around the song, the duo contacted High Contrast directly and officially released it.
The track was written by Lincoln Barrett and produced by Overmono.
Overmono said of the song, “High Contrast used to work in this record shop in Cardiff called Catapult Records. We lived on the other side of the city, but Tom would go and buy records from him there all the time. I'm pretty sure it was the first record shop I went to after I bought Tom a voucher for his birthday one year. 'Tough Guys Can't Dance' was one of those records that was just everywhere, we were all battering it, and “If We Ever” was the anthem. Ahead of summer this year, we started working on our own version of If We Ever just for fun, but the reaction was so wild, we ended up playing it in every set.”- Overmono told Sian Eleri about the song, “I used to buy records of High Contrast and Catapult Records in Cardiff when I was a wee nipper. It was so I remember when it was released originally. It was that I left school. And so around that, like, I remember the whole record just being like an absolute, it was like a mind blowing record. And it was just one of those records that, like everyone at school was just hammering loads, and you like driving around, like going to parties and whatever. And it would always just be that record. So it was, if I feel like it was something that was, for me particularly, was like a really formative record. And 'If We Ever' in particular, was just like an absolute massive tune on there. And so we wanted to do, let's do our own version of it at some point.”
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Photo by Jasmina Wood - source : BBC Radio 1
