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Mary Chang on Monday, 17th June 2013 at 4:00 pm
London’s Treetop Flyers recently filmed this live performance ‘Houses are Burning’, from their debut album ‘The Mountain Moves’ with the Blind Club, and it sounds absolutely brilliant. Watch the video below. Forget those smartphones, Coldplay…raise those lighters!
For a taste of Treetop Flyers live, you can read my review of their recent gig at Edinburgh Electric Circus here.
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Mary Chang on Wednesday, 12th June 2013 at 6:00 pm
Dublin’s Delorentos – who recently won the Meteor Choice Award for Album of the Year for their third album ‘Little Sparks’ released last year – have a new promo video out for their song ‘Petardu’. Not sure who or what Petardu is, but we like it so much, we’re also sharing an acoustic live version of the song that was released in January. Watch and enjoy both below.
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Mary Chang on Tuesday, 11th June 2013 at 4:00 pm
Canadian twin sisters Tegan and Sara stopped into the Crypt Sessions earlier this month to record to video this gorgeous version of ‘I Was a Fool’, their new single released this week on Vapor/Warner. It’s about to get emotional, folks. Watch the video below.
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Mary Chang on Monday, 10th June 2013 at 4:00 pm
Lead singer Daniel Balk of the Postelles recently was filmed playing this spare acoustic version of the band’s ‘Heavy Hands’, from their new album ‘And It Shook Me’, out now. Watch the performance below. Gold stars to whoever can identify this patch of English countryside. I’m clueless!
Header photo by Lennon Gregory
When you’re a fan of a band – any band – I think there’s certain expectations you have when you go see that said band live. Even if you prayed for days on end, there are certain songs that you just know will never show up in a set list. Despite my greatest wish to see ‘Stars’, ‘The Crookes Laundry Murder 1922′ and ‘I Remember Moonlight’ played live by the Crookes, I always have assumed I’ll never see them live. The time has passed; two out of three of those are of the 2011 ‘Chasing After Ghosts’ / Alex Saunders era and therefore unlikely to be pulled out for public consumption again.
I had a similar resignation when it came to ‘The I Love You Bridge’, the last track on ‘Hold Fast’; it’s so different from the rest of the album in tempo and raucousness, and admittedly, it can be a bit of a downer, depending on the way you look at the words, so I just never expected it to pop up in a Crookes live set list. However, at last month’s Fierce Panda 19th Birthday Slamdown in the deft hands – literally – of singer George Waite performing this song, written about the iconic Sheffield landmark, with a guitar. All alone onstage and under a single spotlight, his performance was, in a word, breathtaking. As a singer, I get chills just thinking about it. “It’s a magic trick / an escape from this…who cares she told him no / it’s the gesture, don’t you know? / we’ll cling on and we won’t let go”: if you ever needed hope, this is the song to give it to you in spades.
The other video I have for you is for ‘Honey’, which is probably best known to Crookes fans as the b-side to ‘Afterglow’, the first single to be released from ‘Hold Fast’. In stark contrast, it’s a hard rocking number, as you will see from the energetic performance below, but it has equally thought-provoking lines: “I want to die with sunshine on my face…I’d rip out my pages to be someone else.” Likewise with ‘The I Love You Bridge’, I wasn’t expecting to hear this in London and I just keep thinking, what a wonderful treat they gave us fans. Watch both videos below – enjoy!
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Mary Chang on Thursday, 6th June 2013 at 4:00 pm
Header photo by Lennon Gregory
The incredibly gracious boys from Morecambe, Lancashire the Heartbreaks sat down with me for a chat and also performed a track in session for us and our friends at Sound Influx, and that’s coming up soon on TGTF. In the meantime, enjoy this video of the band performing ‘I Didn’t Think It Would Hurt to Think of You’, which they used to close out their set at the Scala last month. They played alongside other Panda acts the Crookes and Hey Sholay.
Read the entirety of my review of Fierce Panda’s 19th Birthday Slamdown at the Scala on the 21st, including a video of new song ‘Fair Stood the Wind’ performed, right this way.
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