Cancel The Astronauts – I Am The President Of Your Fanclub (And Last Night I Followed You Home)
Ok, so after the tom foolery of Friday night (yes I do know Hasta La Vista is not Italian for goodbye) and the exceptional Live in Edinburgh by Bart (may I say Bart that that was the most comprehensive Live in Edinburgh ever sir) it’s time to get a little serious and write about some proper music. Normally I’d be reviewing this over at my own blog The Steinberg Principle, but Matthew’s crazy decision to let me, Bart and Dylan loose on his page is CTA’s lucky day as I have 2 weeks of mainstream blogging to enjoy. Hopefully this will get the guys, and others I write about out to a much wider audience.
For those of you who do not know Cancel The Astronauts they are such a nice bunch of lads. Possibly the nicest lads in the Edinburgh music scene, possibly the whole of Scotland, probably the world. They are quirky dressers, funky dancers and range from average height to unnaturally tall. And you know what, to top it all off they are also an absolutely cracking band. They were one of the first bands that Graeme and I put on at Trampoline having found them locked away in a practice space we both shared. Since that fateful day they have grown in stature and reputation in the past 2 years culminating with the release of this lovely little debut EP. Jake our old bass player and I tried to get them to call their first release ‘Fuck The Moon’ but the guys have gone for the much safer and more sensible title of ‘I Am The President Of Your Fanclub (And Last Night I Followed You Home)’ As well as being the EP title it’s also the title of the opening track of the EP and is an extremely catchy number indeed. Thats the thing about Cancel The Astronauts, all their songs are catchy and memorable and singalongtastic. Stand out tracks for me are without a doubt ‘Late In The City’ and ‘Lets Go Expo’ but the title track itself with it’s sinister and slightly creepy lyrics is a strong opener indeed. There’s a Talking Heads vibe about their music, perhaps a touch of Pulp in there too. I don’t know, but what I do know is that this EP makes me smile, a lot. I hope that it makes you all smile too. Enjoy.
Cancel The Astronauts – I Am The President Of Your Fanclub (And Last Night I Followed You Home)
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Cancel The Astronauts – Let’s Go Expo
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Apologies if the player doesn’t work. Dylan found a new hosting site for us and we seem to have a few teething problems. The songs won’t play on my computer. Can people let me know if they work at all. Thanks.
nope, not working here, luv
They took aaaaages to buffer for me first time, but after that they seem fine.
Did you mention something about hosting, Tart?
no luck here.
I heard this on Radio 1 earlier – I properly *squuueeee*’d
I emailed links to euan for these two… while you three work this out, xoxox
This is one catchy mo-fo of a song.
dav – how did you hear it?? or do you already know it?! trust matthew to leave us a site to upload songs to and then for it to mysteriously disappear from the web entirely!
Tart saved the day.
Thanks Tart.
You’re kind of like Penny to our Inspector Gadget.
CTA are one of the best bands doing the rounds in Edinburgh……fact
Have you lads broken Song by Toad already? I know the song already, it’s catchiness is only marginally outshined by the singers brilliant tracky b’s.
Nah, nothing broke.
Matthew set up an account at a hosting site which promptly vanished from the web, taking our MP3s with it. Then I found an alternative site which seems to focus so much on advertising it’s forgotten to provide its users with any bandwidth.
We have a number of alternatives currently under consideration, normal service will be resumed shortly.
Nothing’s changed at all.
There was no great disaster.
Dinky-dinky-ding..
clap, clap, clap, clap clap clap.
Shit, wrong song.
love this ep. i always thought they were was something of clap your hands say yeah! in CTA’s music. is it just me?
it’s an excellent ep. i’m not sure what’s in their music. a mish mash of many things i think. i’ve never really listened to clap your hands say yeah though so cannot comment there. i believe the lads got air time on steve lamaq and tom robinson last night though.
Fair play to the lads, I hear a lot of clap your hands say say yeah which in my book is no bad thing.
The player is working fine with me just listened to both songs. They’re great, especially President, it’s a super catchy pop song and pure simplicity too, always the best way. I love the lyrics too, nice and dark.
I don’t hear much Clap Your Hands but I think I know what you mean in terms of vocal delivery – Matthew isn’t as shouty though.
Will need to get hold of the full EP.
under new song by toad rules mr turnip, you are due us £1 for the spelling error.
What spelling error?
here and hear
You can’t go changing people’s posts, Dylan! That’s a £5 penalty on you.
oooohhhhh you guys are having so much fun when Toad is away!!!
Thanks Dylan, I owe you a pound. Check Euan getting all autocratic. The power is going to your head already euan.
Dylan is great…..
now look at what he has gone and done now….i think Dylan is just as autocratic as Euan.
for the record…i didn’t write Dylan is great
Neither did I…
euan’s just money making. all money could be fed into songbytoad records to help sustain their artists. i thought it was just economics myself.
why would i write it…..
New post already boys!
If you guys don’t post I’m going to have to start doing my job
Thanks to the wonder that is Blackberry (wish it was an iphone) we are keeping a beady eye on you lot….
Ooh – gin time! By the pool incidentally.
slightly late my ears but they do like, oh yes.