The Blue Nile: C or D?

wowee.

absolutely lush.

PJ Moore and Co, eight track new album coming soon. Herald article here.

First track, "Need to Believe", available for download, along w/ album pre-order, at PJ Moore's site.

ooh good find!

There's obvs a hefty wodge of a-Ha in there too, but am I alone in hearing the Blue Nile's 'I Love this Life' in Harry Styles' 'As It Was'?

little piece in Tribune

Forty years ago, Glasgow band The Blue Nile released their first single. Their work was rooted in Glasgow itself, and the changes wrought by the shock of Thatcherism. https://t.co/j6VoGHLErq

— Tribune (@tribunemagazine) July 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fItoUZunua4

good piece and the live recording linked is immense

yo!

if any nileheads are up for it paul buchanan is selling a remastered 2LP 10th anniversary edition of mid air https://store.paulbuchanan.com

still waiting for my preorder to arrive!

PJ Moore has a new band:

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23031729.founding-member-blue-nile-pj-moore-teams-new-project-album/

Interestingly, only the single is available on streaming (Apple Music, anyway). It sounds good--very Blue Nile, as one would expect.

You can listen to another track on their website (and buy the album there)

https://www.pjmooreandco.com/music-1

this song from last year by Nigel's project Quiet City featuring vocals by Pat was incredible

Quiet City - Due North (Remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuYDC2zY3wM

I honestly don't know if I can think of a single artist/band whose first single (a-side and b-side taken together) is more perfectly fully realized, and totally sui generis. I've never heard pure joy captured more wonderfully and without any mawkishness in music than with "I Love This Life," and the world-weary wisdom and old-soul sadness of "The Second Act" is so moving (and rather shocking coming from a 25-year-old). And to think--they got *better* for the next decade, seems impossible.

OTM, I just fell hard for this single, "The Second Act" even more than the A-side. It's so elegantly sad and makes me wish they had spent more time using a more primitive drum machine.

“Drownin’ in The Blue Nile
You sent me ’The Downtown Lights’
I hadn’t heard it in a while”

(Rumoured to be a new Taylor Swift lyric)

the rumors are true

Taylor Swift brought me here

You scenester

CAMEL graciously acknowledging their influence on the BLUE NILE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD7JwGvGtYk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7r2EM-NsMo

matty did it 🥹

ill camel jawns thanks qualmsley