Comments on: The Pastels/Electrelane/The Royal We – The Bongo Club, Edinburgh, Sunday 29th April 2007

By: Song, by Toad

Song, by Toad — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:20:27 +0000

[...] no. I was ruined for this album long before I ever heard it, my dear readers. The reason? Well I saw them live, an experience which blows this record clean out of the [...]

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sun, 06 May 2007 21:50:30 +0000

The voice of experience and true knowledge has spoken! I’m going to follow Liz’s advice I think and buy the singles collection.

By: JC

JC — Sun, 06 May 2007 19:19:14 +0000

Oh I should like to point out a couple of things on re-reading what I said a moment ago.

Everyone is free to slag off royalty, and in many households (including Vinyl Towers), we do. But to so in certain public areas is a dangerous pastime…

Also….be aware that the mp3 from The Pastels that accompanies this posting is far more polished, professsional and tuneful than 90% of their other songs.

By: JC

JC — Sun, 06 May 2007 19:16:00 +0000

As an old bloke who has seen and heard much, I must advise that The Pastels should be approached with much caution. There’s some stuff I’ve quite enjoyed over the years, but not enough to make me rush out and actually buy any of the CDs.

But as you say, they are a bit like royalty in terms of Scottish indie-pop cos you can’t say out loud that you don’t reall love them…

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 01 May 2007 15:22:20 +0000

You're probably right. As Ed points out in his review, they seemed quite put out by the technical problems which, however irritating, didn't really seem like their fault. This almost certainly didn't help the performance at all. I was only disappointed because I know very little about them and was rather expecting to think they were great. I'll start with the singles collection instead.

By: Liz

Liz — Tue, 01 May 2007 15:17:29 +0000

The Pastels singles collection isn’t bad, actually. One of my favorite bands, but I’ve found the tone of their lives sets really depends on the type of crowd they play for. If they’re with ‘their kind’ they can really be quite good.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:47:01 +0000

I just thought it was an excellent expression, and splendidly dismissive too. A little harsh on the band, ultimately, because by the end of the set I quite liked them, but I quoted it because I thought it was funny.

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:11:26 +0000

Hi Mr. Toad,
the member of the party concerned doesn’t know whether she is flattered or not by her comment being repeated on the blog, uncredited, but I think she’s flattered overall. Still feeling blown away by Electrelane, and frustrated that the Pastels didn’t blow me away as much as I hoped they would. Will post my review later, Ed