― Dr. C, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Snotty Moore, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Old Fart - fantastically eloquent post: from an English perspective I think the reason why the folk-pop connection gets made is that in England you're never that far away from a big city, and the population is much more evenly spread out, whereas the more rural parts of Scotland, geographically, *are* more isolated, and this leads to all sorts of lazy generalisations. Also the age-old English problem with reconciling modernity with their narrow idea of being Celtic: Celts generally don't see it as a contradiction, English people unfortunately tend to. I'm sure there *is* an urban / rural divide though - how else could the Scottish Labour Party have started calling the SNP "Tartan Tories" when the SNP's central principle is anathema to the Conservative and *Unionist* Party?
With early Simple Minds I could always sense an obsession with Europe and travel: the lazy critical line here is that this was a desire to escape and get away from English dominance. Am I right or is this another myth?
― Robin Carmody, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Billy Dods, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Saturday, 14 December 2002 20:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 15 December 2002 11:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
Every single one of these bands should have their musical instruments taken away and thrown into the Firth of Forth.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Sunday, 15 December 2002 15:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 15 December 2002 16:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Callum (Callum), Sunday, 15 December 2002 16:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Sunday, 15 December 2002 20:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
BD: No, I suspect it's probably more of a desire to emulate their heroes, Berlin era Bowie, Kraftwerk and anything coming out of Conny Plank's studio.
are there any other bands which have come out of glasgow (??) which have an obsession with the 'berlin set'? I know yummy fur are big on it. (any others?) I'm curious as to what makes that era of music (roxy, eno, bowie, iggy, lou, nina hagen, liliput) seductive to glaswegians if it even does.
one of the reasons yummy fur never cut it fr me (and this harks back to the fiery furnaces thread and numerous smiths threads) was what seemed to me an almost puritanical approach to iconography and images. look at how delicious a range of 'influences' they have, it could have been put to so much more affect, which wd perhaps helped mobilise thr magic a bit more. I bet they wouldn't have sneered at video installations.
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 13:56 (twenty years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 13:57 (twenty years ago) link
― the bellefox, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 15:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 15:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 15:52 (twenty years ago) link
― the bellefox, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 16:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 16:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 16:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 16:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 16:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Andy K (Andy K), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 17:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 17:27 (twenty years ago) link
"We Could Send Letters" clearly has a chorus, and a great one at that.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 22:57 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 23:00 (twenty years ago) link