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Andy played me this the other day. Stunning. Great lyric. Frog- God Once Loved a Woman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jpYDohvzmo
Hello MadysC. Welcome to the board. It’s lovely to have you.
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This is the best part of parenting. Filling them with shit loads of cool experiences. And that cane be a gig or it can be fiddly winks on a rainy day or building forts with covers or dancing in the kitchen. Good on you. Glad you made the trip. Vive La France!
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Unfortunately that happens. It’s hard to stop. At least here you know it’s us.
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Belle and Sebastian at The Vic Bar, Glasgow School School of Art. One of their first gigs. I’d known Stuart for 4 years. His best friend Ciara (person on the cover of Sinister) was the sister of my best friend Jude so we would see us in the hallway from time to time. Anyways I was not expecting what I saw. Proper genius level songwriting and the band were totally locked. Just saw them in Hollywood the other night playing that very album. So many incredible bands to have come out of our wee city.
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Ahhhh The Groovy Dougie Fanclub. BRING IT BACK!!!!!
Hey Leslivon,
We are from Glasgow and mostly, Glasgow folk are that way. It’s always cool to meet folk after the show and we always try to do it. I remember one time on a tour in the US ages ago, we were all jet lagged and had had a very technically challenging show. Our tour manager at the time said there were a lot of fans outside but there was a side door we could exit “quietly” I remember thinking hmmm I don’t know about this… So we packed up and exited and were walking up the alley when suddenly we heard a scream and then our tour manager shouted RUN and we all just bolted and fans were chasing us up the alley and their screams soon turned into expletive laden tirades “Fuck youuuu Travis” “Fucking assholes!!” etc. It was horrible. Lesson learned 🙂
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Not us. I’ll have the brass look into it. We have had various other Travis’s post songs in that platform which have logged as us. Some quite exotic music and others. Takes ages to fix it. Thanks for flagging.
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I’m always amazed to see fights break out in a Travis audience. Always alcohol related. Always to do with one person telling someone else to shut up or put their phone away. I was at the Belle and Sebastian show on Friday and Saturday this week in LA at the Hollywood Palladium. On the Saturday we were standing and 2 couples came in and shouted loudly at each other throughout the first half of the set. I eventually turned around and told them I knew the band and if they wanted, I could go and ask the sound guy to turn it down a bit so they could hear themselves better. One of them got fighty but his girlfriend tamped it out and they went elsewhere.
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There are no plans to do that album live as yet. It’s interesting, because for a long time I couldn’t listen to the record… not that I listen to our records after we finish them. By the time we finish them they have been listened to death. It’s more maybe that it left a foul taste in my mouth. I was whipped hard for more singles and more singles, so much so that I was left feeling the album was never good enough. Afew of years ago I listened to it again and was overwhelmed. It was really good. My Eyes, Closer, Selfish Jean, Big Chair. I HATE Eyes Wide Open…. oh god it’s awful. My favorite part of the recording was double tracking the baseline with timpani drums to get the desired “Lust for Life” feel we were after. That was one of the first covers we played when we rehearsed above The Horseshoe Bar in Glasgow in 1996. I think it was because it was on the Trainspoting soundtrack.
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Hey Elfy
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The re-issued albums on vinyl were the albums we recorded on Independiente. They sold their catalogue of songs to Concord. Andy Mac, who was my A&R man and who owned Independiente stipulated to them that they re-issue the back catalogue. So those 5 albums made the re-issue. Ode was released on PIAS (Play It Again Sam), Where You Stand was released on another and Everything at once was released on yet another. I am pretty sure these will get a re-issue on vinyl. Ode is an interesting record. It was a project album, recorded to a brief. Write an album in 2 weeks, tour it for 2 weeks to eke out the creases, then record on 8 track multitrack and mix it in 2 weeks. The resulting songs were patchy. There are still some very good moments. J. Smith being one of my favorites. Neils drumming is sensational and we recruited the Crouch End Festival choir to sing the latin part at the end, which was translated from English to Latin by the person who “Writing to Reach You” was written about’s dad, who was an Italian scholar at Strathclyde University. He was fluent in latin.
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Hey Caz. What a hard thing for a young person to lose their mum. That moment in the show felt like the room doubled in size with all the people we were thinking of joining us. We will return to NZ one day soon. We couldn’t this time because of timings and available venues or some other non band reason. Take care and thanks for posting X
Hey Peggy-Sierra. That’s a lovely story. Thanks for doing that for that kid. We are so lucky to have this short lease on life. Some are shorter than others. Lovely to have you back on the board.
On a technical note, Re. Pictures, I think you can post pictures but you need to do it in a code way. I asked an ai what to do. It seems that it is a little bit complicated but once you get used to it, it’s easy. Here is what it said
“Since the forum allows unrestricted HTML, you can embed an image using a standard HTML
tag:
html< img src="https : / /your-image-url.com/image.jpg" alt="description of image ">
To get a URL for your image, you’d first need to host it somewhere publicly accessible, such as:
Imgur (imgur.com) — free, easy image hosting
Google Photos — share a public link
Flickr, Postimg, or similar — free image hostsThen just paste the direct image URL into the src attribute. For example:
html< img src="https : //i.imgur.com /abc123.j pg" alt="my photo">
You can also control the size:
html< img src="https : //i. imgur.com /abc123. jpg" alt="my photo" width=" 500">
Just type or paste that directly into the message box and hit Submit.
Hey Sirius. What was your old board name? Yeah it’s so cool. For me it will always be connected to the late 90’s when the website got started. Of course it picked up significantly in the 00’s and then sort of died off when the tsunami of new social media arrived. The tide has rolled out again though and the board lives.
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