Electrelane

You'd think after time #2 or #3 you'd learn your lesson ...

Oh no! The bassist is a girl who was in the year above me at school. and is a very, very nice person, she is quite tiny though, so maybe that's why.

The other thing is Le Mans and that other Spanish band that aren't Le Mans.

I'm going to see them tonight, anyway, as long as it isn't sold out.

btw I like The Power Out a lot more than Stereolab, or at least most Stereolab. It sends me.

Yes! Well, on "Enter Laughing," anyway. Can't quite put my finger on which VU songs this sounds like.

Mia Clarke is like Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo was 15 years ago. The coolest guitarist in the world. She's like this tiny rock fairy with a guitar that's almost bigger than her. More importantly I must say that I think she's the most beautiful human being I've ever seen. Whenever she'd move the hair that fell over her face and smile shyly(she has a great smile) to the crowd I melted. I think we made eye contact once! I am so completly in love with her and I will never EVER complain when girls go crazy for male rock stars. I get it now! I UNDERSTAND

there's another electrelane thread, isn't there? i'm sure i posted on it. hmm.

I have just discovered their album "Axes"... christ, this is great. I was a bit surprised by how straight-down-the-line they were with their up-and-at-em rock sounds, given that I usually expect Wire cover stars to be all noodley and inaccessible. Being straight-down-the-line is a good thing, mind... it's like the rock version of being anti-rockist.

The cover of "The Partisan" is my new favourite tune.

we raced together! i think electrelane put on the better set that night, IMHO.

Definitely: ever since Axes I've been wondering what their plan was on this front, whether they'd come back to being a pop band on the next record, or whether each LP would mix in both modes (which The Power Out mostly did), or find some third way that left the question behind -- no matter what, it seems like a good sign about a band's vitality that they'd have a few different directions they could profitably go in. I'll be interested to hear this one, especially if it fits their trend of getting increasingly, umm, "historical" from album to album.

i had no idea a new album was coming out! where have i been? albini on board? what's the scoop? i am wicked psyched to hear this already!

"We have decided that the upcoming gigs will be our last for the foreseeable future," the band wrote. "After ten years of much fun and hard work, we have realised that we all need a break and time to do other things. This was a tough decision for us to make, but ultimately a positive one.

"A big thank you to everyone who has come to our shows, put on our shows, and bought our records over the years. It means a lot to us. We're really grateful to have had the opportunity to play gigs all over the world and to meet so many lovely people. This last year has been especially enjoyable and we feel happy about moving on with all these good memories to look back on. At the moment we haven't made any band plans for the future but we're going to have a break and see what happens.

"Love, Electrelane"

this makes me v sad in my heart

Power Out and No Calls have aged very well. They seem more distinctive, even more in their own little sound world, than in the 00s

Axes as well!

this show is so great...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR63neoReGQ

Haven’t seen anything more about the reunion but Verity Susman has a new band Memorials that’s releasing a double album and touring the UK this spring.

With Matt from Wire.

lol that Susman's website link to her band actually leads to memorials (dot) com, to buy funeral related items.

Pretty into the Memorials albums on first listen!

happy 20th to the power out

Still love it and listen to it regularly.

New EP from Verity’s new band, Memorials

https://memorialsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/centre-pompidou-ep

It’s lovely!!

I saw them supporting Stereolab last year. tbf I didn't enjoy it that much but I had dragged a friend along who hadn't even heard Stereolab before so I was probably too focused on trying to make sure my friend was having a good time than enjoying the gig (he did in fact love Stereolab esp the last half of the set when they played the longer songs, so I probably shouldn't've worried)