Life Without Buildings

I'm finally seeing visual footage of my life's soundtrack

Stuart Murdoch in the audience at the end stops clapping way too early IMO.

xxp She uses notes in a lot of her spoken word performances.

This was so great to see

of COURSE she's jumping around everywhere :D

When I saw them there were notes for only 2 songs I think, maybe The Leanover & New Town? Even then it seemed more of an affectation or a comfort, rather than actually relying on them for a memory aide. The band were really tight but visually static, and then this whirling dervish monopolising the full stage space

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3atVbiV_Ow

totally missed that last lot of thread updates. amazing!!

so i searched and these were also on youtube...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxIbwsauQMk
New Town

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uOHEueVGdg
Juno

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWJW5-26IXg
Let's Get Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MySIwLnSQU
Young Offenders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5uICT2o5ME
Live in Paris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7n9ELcXnJ8
Life Without Buildings Live at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow

am i tripping or something? are all these videos actually really real? i'm flipping out here

Was only (only!) coming here to post this, a recent interview here with Robert Dallas Gray (formerly Robert Johnston):
https://arcane-delights.com/2021/11/21/robert-dallas-gray-life-without-buildings-interview/

also an AG Cook remix of The Leanover which tbh i'm not totally sure about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSv6MzFVzc0

and i don't think i ever heard this before...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qkkbGMGYgU
Daylighting (b-side of Young Offenders)

Fuck I missed the earlier revive too!

Was already in bits by three quarters of the way through the Leanover

last thing: never knew sue was from leighton buzzard, she would've been in the year above my sister at school there. wonder if she remembers her at all? will find out at christmas

anyhow, leighton buzzard: the baron knights, kajagoogoo, silver bullet, and now sue tompkins. talk about punching above your weight :)

xp: aww! amazing isn't it?

final post i swear: sue did a track with el hombre trajeado in 2016!! how the heck did i not know this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bY8RiDuqTI

my god that live Juno is beautiful

also hayley tompkins

https://www.themoderninstitute.com/artists/hayley-tompkins

okay this killed me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKkpuLYlcF4

so i searched and these were also on youtube...

I was at this

|||||||| !!!!!!!!

I was at the Transmission Gallery one.

thanks so much for the new links

bagsie first dibs on stirmonster's memories if the component parts of his brain ever come up for auction.

btw optimo is given the love in that Robert Dallas Gray interview i linked to above :)

i just read that! robert and his friends were the very first regulars the club had and came almost religiously for the first year or so when not so many people attended. i'm not sure why LWB never performed there. memory is an interesting thing as i am 99.9% sure that television song he recalls hearing wasn't ever played.

Nick's Youtube link got me curious and it looks like Sue has done a number of solo/guest vocals:
- "Country Grammer", a 2004 solo track
- "Raid" / "Turnover", a 2015 solo 7"
- "Do It Puritan!" with El Hombre Trajeado in 2016
- "Special Long Version (Demo)" with Russell Haswell in 2018
- 5 tracks with TSX on recur³ followed by 4 tracks with TSX on recur² in 2019/2020

Given her slow build-up of work the last 5 years, I wonder if she's planning a proper solo or new band LP.

time for a comeback to show these Wet Dry Leg Cleaning posers how real random talk songs should be performed

Tompkins and Haswell have performed as a duo a few times now. I once saw them browsing DVDs in the Fopp on Union Street in Glasgow.

I saw LWB in London one time, with Piano Magic I think. In Highbury, just near the Garage, can't remember the venue name. No trace of it online. Maybe I dreamed it?

I saw the same bill but it was in Camden in a basement. Right after Artists Rifles

yep, they played in brighton with piano magic too, round about the time of 'low birth weight' but i didn't go for some idiotic reason, genius that i am

I think Michael Jones of this parish and I saw the mystery Highbury venue Piano Magic support slot too - iirc it felt like a theatre space? A few actor friends of mine were there and seemed to be friends with Sue, which made me think they were some kind of improv/performance art thing, which slightly put me off. Saw them again a few months later, on some random NME bill with a friend's band at the LA2 and they completely won me over - so much so that by the time they played the Spitz a few months after that, they were pretty much my favourite band. And they split up :(

I've doubtless mentioned this numerous times in this thread, but I saw them support The Strokes at the latter's debut headline show at the Barfly, and the Strokes were amazing - much better than I ever saw them again - but there was an unlikely magic to LWB that was sublime, and it felt like the indie scene was swapping this weird sublime music for stuff aimed squarely at the cash register. I guess it was similar to when Britpop began to coalesce and flex its commercial muscle.

final post i swear: sue did a track with el hombre trajeado in 2016!! how the heck did i not know this?

boops!

guess there's a repress of 'any other city' in the works...

hmm how interesting. wonder who else is in this series https://t.co/A9ctd3KxCD

— Robert Dallas Gray (@rdg_music) July 26, 2023

Only 500 of that first one? Maybe there'll be nice liners.

The previous represses look to be still around... e.g., Rough Trade website

kinda of hoping for some added extras tbh, 'love trinity' on vinyl would be an absolute dream

btw if you're into solo guitar stuff, you might be interested in rdg's forthcoming solo album. sounding very lovely to me...

https://robertdallasgray.bandcamp.com/track/stolen-moments

Yeah, I'm happy with my WYR pressing from 2014, but I might replace it if a new one comes with the Love Trinity tracks.

I did the artwork for the WYR pressing. Meaning I put the existing artwork in a new templates, shuffled around a few logos and dates etc. Was an honor.

I would be happy if it was the live album on vinyl.

I guess something is happening today

Huge news coming this afternoon.
Sign up to our mailout for first dibs

Head here: https://t.co/KD1VvQUxOD pic.twitter.com/c8gmSVL2c0

— monorail music (@Monorail_Music) August 21, 2023

nice thanks. i'd probably down with international shipping just for a lyric sheet lol

So it's a slightly deluxe version of the regular tracklist of the album.

LIFE WITHOUT BUILDINGS: Any Other City
The Glasgow School 02

Monorail Edition: 250 on colour vinyl Handstamped+numbered folder with Sue Tompkins Lyric book, flyers, final gig ticket + 2 badgeshttps://t.co/F5f5NxMkn6

The most special of groups,
So much love for this LP pic.twitter.com/s4tqSPUqCT

— monorail music (@Monorail_Music) August 21, 2023

one for the guit nerds:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyGpOt0Kb3T/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

In EADGAE btw

awesome. always wondered what tuning he used, so simple once you know

Good to see albums being reissued 'From Glasgow' not from complete and utter cunts