| Beachy Head | |
| Cover: | Veronica Falls Beachy Head cover.jpg |
| Border: | yes |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Veronica Falls |
| Album: | Veronica Falls |
| Released: | 14 June 2010 (UK) 21 September 2010 (US) |
| Recorded: | 2010 |
| Genre: | Alternative |
| Length: | 2:34 |
| Label: | No Pain in Pop (UK) Captured Tracks (US) |
| Producer: | Veronica Falls |
| Chronology: | Veronica Falls |
| Prev Title: | Found Love in a Graveyard |
| Prev Year: | 2010 |
| Next Title: | Bad Feeling |
| Next Year: | 2011 |
"Beachy Head" is a song by British indie pop band Veronica Falls. The song was first released in the UK by independent record label No Pain in Pop on 14 June 2010, as a single with the B-side "Staying Here".[1] The US release on 21 September 2010 came exactly one year before the release of the band's first album, Veronica Falls.[2]
Allmusic picked "Beachy Head" as one of the highlights of the album.[3] Consequence of Sound found a connection between this song and the band's first single "Found Love in a Graveyard" and wrote: "On the deceptively upbeat "Found Love in a Graveyard", Veronica Falls tell the tale of falling for a ghost, and dips into surf-rock on the irresistible "Beachy Head", an ode of longing for a popular suicide locale."[4] The referenced locale is Beachy Head in East Sussex, the highest seaside cliff in Great Britain. The site is notorious for its frequent employment in suicides.[5]
A music video directed by Phillipa Bloomfield was released in June 2010.[6]