Comedian James Acaster launches new band The Wow! Scenario, sharing jazz driven single ‘Zacuti’ featuring BC Camplight

Comedian James Acaster has launched a new band and shared their first single ‘Zacuti’ featuring BC Camplight – find all the details below. The Wow! Scenario has been in the making for 20 years and is finally completed by Acaster’s friend Graeme Wicks, BC Camplight and Emma Daman. They have announced their debut album ‘Stand in the Star. A Verse and a Chorus’, which is due for release on October 23 via Bella Union. You can pre-order it here. The band have also shared the first taster from the record, the jazz driven ‘Zacuti’, which you can listen to below. Formed in Kettering in 2004, Acaster and Wicks “had already decided to call it a day when they recorded all of their songs in December 2007 with producer Chris Hamilton” according to a press release. It went on to say the band name itself “came from a drunk audience member trying to tell them they didn’t have ‘the X factor'” but repeatedly got the term “wrong instead saying: ‘You don’t have the wow scenario, guys. You need to get the wow scenario'”. They went back to the record with Hamilton in 2018, scrapped the vocals and re-recorded the vocal melodies on saxophone, clarinet and fiddle, with the intention of releasing it as an i...