SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW

I did intend to make more regular postings while away on holiday, but the internet connection at the small resort we were staying at was on the slow side and to be honest, I couldn't be arsed. But it means that I've a small bank of pre-prepared snatches of words and music that I'll get round to putting up over the Festive period, and then I'll begin 2008 anew with some freshness and hopefully more enthusiasm than of late.

Am I the only one who detests it when a band, having made a commercial breakthrough, go into their back catalogue and re-release flop singles. It happens all the time. Well almost.

It would have been really easy for Franz Ferdinand to shove out their spectacularly catchy debut but non-chart debut single Darts of Pleasure and watch the cash roll in. Instead, they re-recorded it completely, gave it a different name, and made it available elsewhere as a b-side.

And a right good job they did of the remake if you ask me:-

mp3 : Franz Ferdinand - Words So Leisured

It will be interesting to see what their next LP sounds like having kind of fallen foul of the taste police last time out. Good luck to them (the band that is......not the taste police).

To tidy a few things up.......... I've now sorted out the link to the remix of Come Clean (thanks to Ed for letting me know), and a few words also to Kurt on April Showers.

I first heard the band back in 1984 when a flatmate by the name of Graeme Peaston bought the single and played it to death. As far as I know, it was the only recording ever released, with Everytime We Say Goodbye being the b-side. I never saw them perform live....in fact I'm not sure if they ever did. As I mentioned in the July posting on the band, Beatrice Colin was at the time, the other half of James Grant (Friends Again and Love & Money) and she later became a journalist/writer.

And finally.....I hope you've all bought We're All Going To Die - my 7" vinyl copy arrived in the post this morning. If you click on the link on the right hand side, you'll get a further link via Malcolm's site to a free download of a previously unavailable Arab Strap song called To All A Good Night. You can also, from there, go to the site of Aidan Moffat where there's all sorts of goodies on offer courtesy of the bearded genius.

Bye for now.