Beats, Shoots And Leaves
Last year we used the phrase “growing pains” to describe the difficulties of getting (re-)organised. Skin stretching, bones busting, shooting outwards, haphazard and Alice-like, banging into obstacles, constrained by walls and windows. This Spring has been a more positive phase of growth, as last week’s mini-tour demonstrated.
Four nights in Portsmouth, Brighton, Maidstone and Gillingham, performing a set whose intensity only increased as the week wore on. A mixture of old favourites, songs from the forthcoming album and a couple of brand new numbers (The Counting Song and Big Top Disaster Scenario) receiving their stage debuts.
Here are a few murky videos (Maidstone was LOUD, forgive the odd squelch every now and then)… darkened mementos for everyone who was there and hopefully a good enough second-best for those who couldn’t make it.
nice and sweaty performances boys, v much enjoyed ;0) x
Loving the revamped version of Dorothy Deserves. Did you use REAL handclaps for it? I remember a friend once told me that in the credits of some Boston album they make it clear that the handclaps used in More Than A Feeling are genuine hand handclaps. Not synthetic handclaps that any old asshole with a casio could use.
No, not Boston. They used REAL hands. (I don’t believe it stated whether the hands were THEIR hands used for the clapping…)
peace outty!
dAn. x
it really was a most beautiful night at The barge
hope to see you soon
Those are our real dirty palms slapping the skin, be sure of it!