Comments on: Live in Edinburgh This Week – 7th December 2008

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:07:35 +0000

I was thinking more Final Straw and Midnight Organ Fight.

By: Euan

Euan — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:30:23 +0000

i listened to when everything….this morning on the bus and the comparison to frightened rabbit – other than the odd word prenounciation still baffles me mr toad. i just don’t hear it!

By: Rampant Chutney Consumerism

Rampant Chutney Consumerism — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:24:41 +0000

i’ve lived ‘How to be dead’ some many times……

By: Euan

Euan — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:17:33 +0000

I have to say – my wife absolutely loved final straw when it came out and when i first heard some of the tunes on zane lowe’s session i was impressed. it’s the shit that has followed since that really gets me down. how to be dead is still a brilliant tune.

By: drunkcountry

drunkcountry — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:48:59 +0000

Cheers Toad.

It’s a strange business, I suppose. I remember when the Jo Whiney-endorsed ads started appearing on ITV declaring them the best new British band & Final Straw the best album of the year blah di blah & I thought ‘o well, there goes their credibility- they’ll be jimcrowed into the Travis/Coldplay coffee table pigeon hole now & nothing good will come of it’.

I wonder if they then naturally progressed into the frappachino-lite they now knock out or they saw it as a career/direction move worth risking in order to shift units & remain relevant to the irrelevant music buying masses? It would have beena good album to end on, but as it is…

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:24:04 +0000

Very nicely expressed, DC. I prefer When It’s All Over, obviously, but I’ve never heard Final Straw described so sympathetically before. Makes me want to go home and stick it on the stereo, that does.

By: Drunk Country

Drunk Country — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:22:56 +0000

I thought that is sounded like an album devoid of pressure, like they had nothing to prove or lose. Therefore the sound was looser, their attitude & playing genuinely angry & the overall feel was just an entirely different band – kind of relieved in a way, but ‘listen to us – we’re a good fucking band & you’ve missed your opportunity’. That’s what I took from it at the time (nothing to do with the title) & still think that. There’s a marked progression from the first two albums & I think it’s their best effort purely on the basis that is was an eloquent suicide note.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:12:26 +0000

Ed – I always assumed that was where the name came from, but I’d never thought of it as more meaningful than that. If you have their first two, then I’d suggest you probably don’t need anything else by them. When It’s All Over is really good, and I don’t think they’ve matched it before or since, honestly. Mind you, in the dowload era it’s pretty easy to find out for yourself. Chasing Cars was dreadful though, and I haven’t bothered to listen to the recent one.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:09:35 +0000

At least I don’t love Snow Patrol like everyone else round here!

By: thesteinbergprinciple

thesteinbergprinciple — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:02:35 +0000

dylan – you smell!!!