Comments on: Live in Edinburgh This Week – 20th April 2008 http://songbytoad.com/2008/04/live-in-edinburgh-this-week-20th-april-2008/ Independent music from Edinburgh, Scotland - with added gin and swearing. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:12:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Matthew http://songbytoad.com/2008/04/live-in-edinburgh-this-week-20th-april-2008/#comment-4288 Matthew Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:54:15 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1530#comment-4288 Well that is pretty much the plan. But this opportunity came up, I got a bit giddy and chanced my arm emailing her label. Who amazingly said yes. So there we go. I can't wait either, but I am nervous as fuck! Well that is pretty much the plan. But this opportunity came up, I got a bit giddy and chanced my arm emailing her label. Who amazingly said yes. So there we go. I can’t wait either, but I am nervous as fuck!

]]> By: The Daily Growl http://songbytoad.com/2008/04/live-in-edinburgh-this-week-20th-april-2008/#comment-4309 The Daily Growl Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:30:04 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1530#comment-4309 Fuck me, Matthew. The Toad sessions go from strength to strength. Here was me thinking that you'd be focusing on up-and-coming Edinburghers, not landing indie-folk superstars. OK, maybe that's overstating it a bit, but still, well done in setting up that one. Looking forward to it already... Fuck me, Matthew. The Toad sessions go from strength to strength. Here was me thinking that you’d be focusing on up-and-coming Edinburghers, not landing indie-folk superstars. OK, maybe that’s overstating it a bit, but still, well done in setting up that one. Looking forward to it already…

]]> By: Matthew http://songbytoad.com/2008/04/live-in-edinburgh-this-week-20th-april-2008/#comment-4290 Matthew Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:09:35 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1530#comment-4290 Well that should be this week, by the look of it. See you all there I'd imagine! Well that should be this week, by the look of it. See you all there I’d imagine!

]]> By: george best http://songbytoad.com/2008/04/live-in-edinburgh-this-week-20th-april-2008/#comment-4289 george best Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:16:32 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1530#comment-4289 if you haven't seen FR live lately, or heard the new album, might i suggest that you do both as soon as you get the chance. if you haven’t seen FR live lately, or heard the new album, might i suggest that you do both as soon as you get the chance.

]]> By: Campfires & Battlefields http://songbytoad.com/2008/04/live-in-edinburgh-this-week-20th-april-2008/#comment-4307 Campfires & Battlefields Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:02:05 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1530#comment-4307 I blush when I admit that I wore earplugs. Made all the difference in the world. There was absolute beauty beneath the shkronkalanche. I blush when I admit that I wore earplugs. Made all the difference in the world. There was absolute beauty beneath the shkronkalanche.

]]> By: Euan http://songbytoad.com/2008/04/live-in-edinburgh-this-week-20th-april-2008/#comment-4308 Euan Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:54:21 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1530#comment-4308 as I've said before - I'm not having a go at the twilight sad - I think their album is brilliant - but turning up and just making noise doesn't do it for me - if I want to be blown away by a wall of noise, I'll nip down the studio turn everything up to 10 and let rip. whilst their album is a fantastic piece of work, the beauty within it is lost live in this ridiculously over loud wall of noise - apart from perhaps the vocal. but i stress, I like them as a band and hope their second album is as good as the first. but having seen them live 3 times I won't be going back for a while. I never really enjoyed the beatles, so lets not go there but konk is a stupid album name regardless of where it came from. as I’ve said before – I’m not having a go at the twilight sad – I think their album is brilliant – but turning up and just making noise doesn’t do it for me – if I want to be blown away by a wall of noise, I’ll nip down the studio turn everything up to 10 and let rip. whilst their album is a fantastic piece of work, the beauty within it is lost live in this ridiculously over loud wall of noise – apart from perhaps the vocal. but i stress, I like them as a band and hope their second album is as good as the first. but having seen them live 3 times I won’t be going back for a while.

I never really enjoyed the beatles, so lets not go there but konk is a stupid album name regardless of where it came from.

]]> By: Matthew http://songbytoad.com/2008/04/live-in-edinburgh-this-week-20th-april-2008/#comment-4304 Matthew Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:59:32 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1530#comment-4304 Oooh - blog fight! Based on which up and coming Scottish indie band is the best, no less. If ever a bunch of people were arguing over the tiniest scrap of discrepancy in a gigantic ocean of agreement it would be this. But why stop all the fun now! When I saw Frightened Rabbit before Christmas they basically sounded like every other indie guitar band around which, given an album which I thought was really distinctive and original, I found disappointing. The Twilight Sad, on the other hand, are hardly innovative, but when their melody breaks through that storm of guitars it's like a ray of musical sunshine. That said I have heard folk say that they lose an awful lot when they are not overwhelming you with the sheer volume of the music, which I can accept may be true, although I've never witnessed it myself. The other thing I have to bear in mind is that I've only seen Frightened Rabbit once, so maybe I caught them on an off day, and I haven't heard the new album yet either, which some very reliable friends are salivating over, so I'm definitely open to having my mind changed on this one. Oooh – blog fight! Based on which up and coming Scottish indie band is the best, no less. If ever a bunch of people were arguing over the tiniest scrap of discrepancy in a gigantic ocean of agreement it would be this.

But why stop all the fun now!

When I saw Frightened Rabbit before Christmas they basically sounded like every other indie guitar band around which, given an album which I thought was really distinctive and original, I found disappointing. The Twilight Sad, on the other hand, are hardly innovative, but when their melody breaks through that storm of guitars it’s like a ray of musical sunshine.

That said I have heard folk say that they lose an awful lot when they are not overwhelming you with the sheer volume of the music, which I can accept may be true, although I’ve never witnessed it myself. The other thing I have to bear in mind is that I’ve only seen Frightened Rabbit once, so maybe I caught them on an off day, and I haven’t heard the new album yet either, which some very reliable friends are salivating over, so I’m definitely open to having my mind changed on this one.

]]> By: george best http://songbytoad.com/2008/04/live-in-edinburgh-this-week-20th-april-2008/#comment-4306 george best Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:07:46 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1530#comment-4306 i've seen the twilight sad and FR on the same bill and there's no comparison. the rabbit play clever catchy tunes and can switch from folk to pop to punk with ease. the sad are stuck in some eighties time warp where playing really loud self indulgent twaddle is considered 'art'. give me the rabbit any day. i’ve seen the twilight sad and FR on the same bill and there’s no comparison. the rabbit play clever catchy tunes and can switch from folk to pop to punk with ease. the sad are stuck in some eighties time warp where playing really loud self indulgent twaddle is considered ‘art’. give me the rabbit any day.

]]> By: Campfires & Battlefields http://songbytoad.com/2008/04/live-in-edinburgh-this-week-20th-april-2008/#comment-4305 Campfires & Battlefields Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:51:51 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1530#comment-4305 Oh, and wasn't "Konk" just the name of the studio where Kooks rekorded their keen, krazy-kool and indeed kromulent, new CD? What if the Beatles had named Abbey Road "Konk" instead? Would John Lennon be alive today? Oh, and wasn’t “Konk” just the name of the studio where Kooks rekorded their keen, krazy-kool and indeed kromulent, new CD? What if the Beatles had named Abbey Road “Konk” instead? Would John Lennon be alive today?

]]> By: Campfires & Battlefields http://songbytoad.com/2008/04/live-in-edinburgh-this-week-20th-april-2008/#comment-4298 Campfires & Battlefields Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:20:04 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1530#comment-4298 Although I'm from the States and therefore a miserable outcast I take great exception to Euan's implication that The Twilight Sad does anything other than make sweet sweet love to the live music listener. I had the pleasure of seeing them in a small club in Washington DC last October and was treated to an aural assault that left me feeling as though I had been pinned to the ground and subjected to a violation which, although possibly unconstitutional, was not entirely unpleasant. If there's higher praise than that, I'd like to hear it. Although I’m from the States and therefore a miserable outcast I take great exception to Euan’s implication that The Twilight Sad does anything other than make sweet sweet love to the live music listener. I had the pleasure of seeing them in a small club in Washington DC last October and was treated to an aural assault that left me feeling as though I had been pinned to the ground and subjected to a violation which, although possibly unconstitutional, was not entirely unpleasant. If there’s higher praise than that, I’d like to hear it.

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