saint etienne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L04zUYuBuh8

https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/camel-coat-little-chef

20th anniversary of Good Humor show at the British Library on Sunday was amazing! A few people were slagging off the sound quality afterwards, but seemed fine to me (although was right at front by the speaker stack). Not a space designed to ever have gigs anyway. Genuinely surprised not to see any [at least former] ilxors among the crowd (maybe some went on Saturday).

Great dj set from Lawrence to kick things off - does he only have one set of clothes? Maybe he has lots of those blue & white caps.
Delightfully obscure naturally - the three most recognisable tracks he played were Sheena Easton's Machinery, Argent's Hold Your Head Up and Trainspotters' High Rise.

Current band are awesome. Drummer (whose name I didn't catch) and Gerard Johnson on keys dressed like Austin Powers. Bennett brothers were good, Debsey astounding - provided triangle, shaker, cowbell and melodica as well as backing vox.

Setlist:

Good Humor:
Woodcabin
Sylvie
Split Screen
Mr. Donut
Goodnight Jack
Lose That Girl
The Bad Photographer
Been So Long
Postman
Erica America
Dutch TV

Hit List:

Hill Street Connection
Hug My Soul
Take It All In
Magpie Eyes
Camel Coat
Like a Motorway
Tonight
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Nothing Can Stop Us

Encore:
Hobart Paving
You're in a Bad Way
He's on the Phone

And my copies of Mondo Casino and Surrey in hand. A fine thing!

How is 'Surrey?'

Asleep At the Wheels of Steel and Foxbase Beta are the next vinyl editions being released.

I have lots of spare St Etienne ltd editions, looking for the Tonight 12" if anyone has one and wants to trade for something else.

Hey that is the one with our (Club Clique’s) remix on the B-side. It’s one of the better things we did I think, if I do say so myself.

Asleep At the Wheels of Steel and Foxbase Beta are the next vinyl editions being released.

― omar little,

That's great news about Foxbase Beta. I was hoping they'd do that one. Any idea when it's supposed to be coming out?

Ok, it looks like the pre-order is going up next Wednesday. Cool!

Reminder - preordering now

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyKBVeyXQAEa9t5.jpg

holy SHIT

The RSD2019 single is now on Spotify and I assume other streaming services:
https://open.spotify.com/album/2LhbBZHNtRb8lDynsqAS72?si=QLq61U6YS-OhnOoL-9HU-w

New vinyl pressing of Misadventures Of Saint Etienne with free signed Christmas card and CD available to pre-order from Friday here…https://t.co/vs8sc8177b pic.twitter.com/aGi2FA23iB

— Saint Etienne (@bobpetesarah) November 19, 2019

The cd is two new tracks

no Christmas gigs then?

Misadventures is the last of the vinyl LPs I need from Saint Etienne, so i'm so happy this was announced. I didn't want to pay $$$ for a copy on Discogs.

Available to order now. Their Greedbag site is being a bit buggy this morning (extra traffic?) so you may need to refresh a few times before you can bag stuff.

Woke up super early, just in time for them to pause the sale for US folks like me to have a chance to buy. Doh! Oh well, hopefully it doesn't go live during my commute to work.

Part of a new song on their Instagram, seemingly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hau8CF-jzs

I've Been Trying To Tell You out 10 september

Music Again
Pond House
Fonteyn
Little K
Blue Kite
I Remember It Well
Penlop
Broad River

they've described it as their first sample-based album since So Tough

One longs for Sound of Water/Places to Visit part 2 and maybe this will be it, approx? Lush textures and wordless cooing is the most gratifying StEt mode and it did feel like they had decisively stepped away from this sort of thing over the past 3 albums, so, fingers crossed

Imagery and video is very Dazed magazine 🤔

Their website has details of the various versions. The 2cd Good Humor was easy to find as a Seattle fan, but missed out on the original Words & Music 2cd drop. Hoping for a similar 2cd version with outtakes, but pre-ordered the DVD/CD version. Hearing Jane Weaver's "Solarised" has me stoked for new St. E.

Waaaahh...so much good stuff on their website sold out/out of stock...it's not fair!

Fell off the wagon after Finisterre (which I really liked) but the teasing of this new one has me intrigued.

omg

yes

new song sounds great! new album cover with shirtless dude putting girl in a headlock is less awesome

he's putting his arm around her...?

pond house sounds goood, perfect vibes technopolis otm

Headlock wtf

I don't care for it

Oh, it's a Dualdisc!

So, CD on one side, DVD on the other...

how did they find these 20 year old models lmao

Although the pictures don't suggest that... (re: DualDisc)

haha, Dualdisc™️ releases ended in 2009 nobody manufactures them anymore

That's what I thought, but you wouldn't put it past them..

(it says "dual disc" format, but)

I'm not totally sold on these new songs. The opener really feels like a slog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWs4uXfI8KE

How dare you (have a perfectly fine and valid individual opinion that might still be wrong somehow but anyway :-D ).

Is there a remix disc? That was the best part of the last one.

St Etienne without bangers seems wrong.

The deluxe CD version has a DVD with the film, but I think that's it.

good for a b-side, terrible for an album opener

Is it just me or is there a weird trebly compression thing on Pond House? If it’s on purpose it kinda ruins this otherwise lush song for me

Oh, I like "Music Again".

that was really boring!

Pond Life is better, but the repetition of the Natalie Imbruglia sample gets a bit annoying towards the end.

Interview about the new album in today's Observer:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/sep/05/saint-etienne-ive-been-trying-to-tell-you-interview-bfi-season