I can guarantee that at university all the chicks wanted to get with the guy with the mic tech sheets and BBC radio studio technician certification…

Loneliest three years of my life.

and you’ve no idea how lucky you are to be men and not be suspect to be talking about gear… i go up to a guy and ask what kind of guitar he’s playing or what’s that thing called he’d done with his amp and i get that “oh you don’t really wanna know that, little girl” look. arrrgh

now, i’m off to google brown bunny

This is the first time I’d ever heard them play this stripped back, and they didn’t amp it up by much at the Summer Toad night a couple of weeks later, either, and that was fucking brilliant.

Those first two songs in particular are a couple of the best things I’ve heard in ages – absolutely brilliant.

I always thought the song was about a nice chilled glass of Zinfandel Rosé.

They’re very adept at this stripped down, acoustic stuff like we’ve got on the session here, whereas on record the loops and electronica often seem to come much more to the fore.

Then the full-band live show is different again, with rock drums (possibly with gated reverb!), electric guitar and an irresistible funky swagger.

What’s remarkable is how well the same songs take to each different interpretation.

I think it helps that they are a band that ‘ought’ to be heard sitting around playing together in a small room. But this is lovely.