‘Mersault’ – Meursault’s 4 Star Mojo Review
You know it never occurred to me that Meursault’s band name would prove so tricky to spell, but first the BBC and now Mojo magazine have managed to spell it incorrectly, and both in different ways. When they were played on Gideon Coe last week they were on the track listing as Meuersault, and now their brilliant review in this month’s Mojo starts with them being referred to as Mersault. God knows how that’s going to affect any of our potential sales, but I hope we don’t have too many people give on looking for a band that might not drop easily out of a Google search. I’ve written a page on the label site with both misspellings in the URL and the title, which is about all I can think of.
Anyway, what a fucking great review eh? Well done lads. The album can be pre-ordered here, in advance of a 15th December release date, or bought at the Song, by Toad Christmas Party next Friday at the Bowery.
Aaron Schroeder – Hooray For You
Mazaltov to all concerned
This is fucking brililant news.
And I don’t think you have anything to worry about spelling wise.
If someone’s genuinely interested in find out more, they’ll not stop at the first hurdle. And whilst googling “mersault” brings back nonsense (as expected), anyone with half a brain would try either the album or label name next. Both of which are quite unique (and spelt correctly).
Tip top.
Can someone explain to me who the Reid brothers are?
And Guy Garvey – Neil will be flattered. Does that make him the ‘thinking woman’s baldy crumpet’ then?
On the subject of misspellings, Bart, yours is a brililant one.
top bombing.
aye
Get ckufed.
Also, googling “mersault edinburgh” brings back the desired results.
I spend too much time on the internet.
Thnaks Bart, that’s reassuring.
Surely you know that the Reid Brothers are The Jesus & Mary Chain. Don’t you live in Scotland?
That’s a top notch review. You, sir, are on your way. Go Mareso!
I’ve never really listened to the Jesus & Mary Chain, C&B, would you believe? I thought be might have been talking about the Proclaimers. I would walk 500 miles just to piss on your bonfire.
It’s better than my first pronunciation on air: “Mere Salt”
On the suibject of being on air – shouldn’t you be uploading last night’s podcast?
Suibject? Fucking hell. It’s all Bart’s fault.
Well if you want something to truly test the power of your speakers you can’t do much better than Psychocandy.
I really, really should finally get my head out of my arse and buy a copy of that, eh.
Congracatulations!
Cheers mate. I’m as pleased as Kate Beckinsale’s knickers and it’s not even my album.
Actually, Toad, we had a bit of an issue with last night’s show. We’ve had a very fucking nasty Trojan on the computers here over the last week & if fucked up the whole system – inclusing all the audio procxessing software etc. I thought I had cleaned the fucker out BUT last night, during the show, with the interview sections all pre mixed, ready for me & she to chat & gabble betwixt them, the virus pulled a fanny on us &, before we were even on air, dismantled the audio output capabilities of the broadcast system I use – therefore we were flying blind/deaf.
By all accounts the Trojan also fucked about with the running order/positioning of the pre-mixed in sections, so we chatted on to our pre-positioned gabble sections as everything else about us, as oblivious as we were, mixed itself 20 seconds this way, 30 seconds that way, completely fucking up the entire smooth tunning & linear mix.
Fortunately, the commentary from TWoTH & I was recorded on a separate track so I can pull that, remix the sections with the interviews & that & we will be re-broadcasting the whole show this Saturday afternoon at 12pm Midday. Publicity etc. will be spat out this evening.
Fucking hell. What a bloody nightmare. I’ve yet to have anything like that happen to me, but it’s only a matter of time.
Buy Darklands and Barbed Wire Kisses too while you’re at it. After that the quality falls off a fucking cliff.
Language, sir, language.
I tell you, man, I have been pulling my fucking hair out since last Thursday. I have to back-up all my programs & do a complete re-install of Windows & whatnot. That’ll happen this Saturday AFTER I stream the podcasted version of the show live.
I invited so many people to listen in, & I believe they did, for that fucking nonsense to happen.
By the by, re: Fisk & Ida Maria etc. I got a text from him last night – he was at the Bristol gig of V.V. Brown & Ida Maria & had somehow, Christ knows how, most certainly on the back of the show, blagged a fucking guestlist pass via the tour manager! He tried to talk to V.V. Brown (to tell her I had stopped him saying even more disparaging things about her during the show) but I think he was told to fuck off. He said Ida sang shit, but looked at him direct in the eye during the whole of ‘I Like You So Much Better When You’re Naked’, like she wanted him to get undressed again. He ended up giving her a (un-specified) present & told her he had traveled alone hoping she & he could talk more about what they didn’t cover in the interview. I think he was told to fuck off.
Congratulations all round!
Congratulations all round, it’s a great album, and as someone who runs a label, I know how important these things feel!
Well quite – how important they feel. I will be really interested to see what produces the most in terms of actual sales though. Either way, it feels fucking nice for the first full album release.
DC – don’t you have a basement you can chain him up in, if just for his own protection, until this particular urge peters out. That’s just mental. Never mind the fact that it’s all associated with TWR, irrespective of what he may have said, and it’s therefore not just his own doorstep he’s shitting on.
Conrgats! And oh yes, do get you some Psychocandy sir! It’s on constant play here at Chez Tart for the pure reverby-genius that is the Reid brothers. For me, and perhaps for many of us here in the U.S. that is the Scottish sound of the 90s we know and love. I’m so looking forward to hearing all of Marsualt’s upcoming tunes, xoxox
You know, even the bloke who did the handwriting for the album cover couldn’t get the fucking name right. And he’s been a friend of Neil’s for years. Fucking daft. Go Moo Salt.
the kays debut ep is known as I can’t beleive you are here……it’s a sublte mistake, but when you get 500 copies of it and there’s nothing to be done it’s a nightmare. simple solution – do not get a dyslexic to do the art work – and if you do, do not get another dyslexic to check all the spellings…….lesson well and truly learned.
Oh my dancing Christ! What a fucking nightmare. I simultaneously can’t laugh and can’t not laugh at that – that’s awful!
i like to think he meant the proclaimers.
Yeah me too. It sounds better that way.
i’d give it 5 stars,
congratulations to all at meserlt and sing, by tod
x
I can live with four.
Toad, as if by magic, I just received an email from V.V. Brown with regards to last night’s encounter. She explained she gave him short shrift, but felt a little mean about it afterwards calling him ‘harmless’. Clueless morefuckinglike. I had telephoned him as soon as he texted me, instructing him to stay away from the both of them but he informed me he had already approached them.
I’m going to incarcerate him Misery style — but, in case he has any ideas of healing & trying to escape in 18months, not only will I block & twock the fucker’s ankles I’ll take a scalpel blade to each of his achilles tendons before hand. That should hold the dozy cunt.
hahaha – david shrigley’s handwriting on the sleeve of the hallam foe soundtrack makes U/N/P/O/C look like U/N/P/O/L and, unbelievably, whoever uploaded the track titles to gracenote seems to have copied them from the back of the cd… meaning that itunes now has an artist called U/N/P/O/C and an artist called U/N/P/O/L, which really made a mess of things i can tell you.
anyway good work meursault and good work matthew!!!! the album deserves no less. really look forward to the relaunch – is there new packaging?
WOOHOO!!! Congratulations!!!
I’m personally also a fan of the Reid Brothers (&co) “Honey’s Dead” album. Admittedly largely because the accompanying Rollercoaster tour date in Glasgow was my first ever gig. And that really is and always will be the zenith of my music-loving credibility. Definitely more favourable than a ‘reverence’ to the MacDonald brothers at least. Congratulations!
The Jesus & Mary Chain were only any good when rave champion & God of Rock ‘n’ Roll Bobby Gillespie was playing drums for them. If anyone disagrees you can call me on 07792 659877 & we can sling insults back & forth until my red pills wear off & I’ll come looking for you to discuss many, many things vaguely related to the original point (but generally ending up on the Stone Roses). We might eventually go for a drink, perhaps even a meal. Do you like the cinema? Nothing foriegn or arty, though. If you have a lisp & like to dress a bit indie, then you’re definitely worth a try. But you mustn’t be chubby. Well, chubby’s okay, I suppose, but not chubby enough that your belly button hollow is visible through the material of a tight t-shirt. Or fat legs. I don’t think people with fat legs wash between them often enough. Basically, whgat I’m saying is, no pigs. I don’t want to waste my time if you’re that fat I have to find stuff with a torch. But, listen, I’m not saying I’d have sex with you straight away; sometimes I like to have a nap after a keebab. Actually, maybe I should have started that by saying this was meant for any women reading this blog. Don’t get me wrong, I like gays. But I’m not convinced it’s a proper lifestyle. Lesbians are okay, though. Any lesbians in?
no, I think he’s referring to The Proclaimers (though as a music journo paid a pretty penny for one wee paragraph you’d think he’d be able to avoid a) misspelling the band name and b) making an extremely ambiguous reference as part of the description).
congrats by the way! can’t wait to get my own copy
BRILLIANT NEWS!!! I give it a stoic 10/5 gold stars. Brilliant.
Instant glossy mag. coverage. Makes me fucking sick.
Please can I point out that my runt of a record label is currently selling Aaron Schroeder’s debut for £1.99?
http://www.letterboxrecords.com if you wish to support struggling, underground labels. Not like the sell-outs you hear about on these pages(!)
Did someone say ‘jealous’?
Ally, it’s entirely possible that it wasn’t James who misspelled the album title. And the Proclaimers/J&MC reference wasn’t ambiguous, I was just being a smart arse. Again. Sorry.
And Gav, it’s really a case of suitability, nothing else. This album genuinely does have the potential to be very popular. I’ll be releasing lots of other stuff later this year which doesn’t have the same commercial potential. This record, though, really is good.
Oh, and can I point out that Aaron Shroeder really is good and that £1.99 is a genuine bargain.
oh thank goodness I’m a fat lesbian, nick, you worthless slug
Was that aimed at you, Tart? Was it aimed at anyone? I’m reading it and I’m not sure I have any idea what on earth he’s on about. It’s almost like a comment from a totally different and unrelated thread somehow ended up appearing here.
I didn’t think being gay was a “lifestyle” anyway? I thought it was just about choice of sexual partners, but then what would I know. Do you describe it as a lifestyle, Tart? Did it come with a list of suitable restaurants and acceptable decorating tips? Ah well. That wins prize for most random and borderline looney bin-worthy post on here in a while, and that takes some doing. If you want to trade insults with Tarty Tart, old chap, good luck to you. I’ll just get some popcorn.
Emily – we are putting it all together this weekend and it is all new and designed by the lads. Bloody art students. It’ll be dead nice though, but we may have some long days coming up.
In vaguely related news, you know a band has hit the mainstream when things like this show up in your search terms: meursault the furnace torrent.
Nice. Welcome to the 21st Century, lads.
At least they spelt it right.
Guffaw. Yes, small mercies and all that.
Actually, that wasn’t Nick. It was just the ‘voice’ of Nick. I’m surprised the IP didn’t give it away, Toad? Saying that, TWoTH was thoroughly confused by it, thinking it was Fisk, & thought he’d had a breakdown on-line.
It’s essentially an idea of the type of conversation I get when he’s off meds., which seems to be happening more & more regularly recently.
Apols to Tart – not a word of it true, meant/felt/representative of my own brainmouth or worth any (Meur)sa(u)lt.
&, oh, it is based on things he has said. So, no, it wasn’t aimed at anyone in particular at all.
I didn’t pay a lot of attention to the IP address. Are you sure it’s Fisk who’s the crazy one, DC? Fucksake, tell the Lady of the House to give you back your pills.
I was bored. & sick of pissing about with virus scanners & whatnot.
Understandable. Still slightly mad, but understandable.
I think we’ll end up listening to your re-broadcast while we’re making Meursault albums on Saturday.
MeerKat will be played on next week’s show, so if you want to let me know about any special launch parties or owt related to the band/album then do so before Sunday (by email) so I can slot in a factoid or two during broadcast.
oh and I was sooo hoping for some sport with nick today, damn! I was just cranking him up to see where he’d go with it, apologies for appearing unnecessarily prickly – I’m most certainly not! Always happy to volunteer my lesbian side for sexual services, wink, wink…
(still confused on who the slug is, but loved his expose on how to find the hidden, allegedly smelly bits)
xoxox
restaurant advice freely given as well!