I'M INSIDE, I'M OUTSIDE, I'M WITH YOU, WITHOUT YOU......

   

She might not quite know where she is and whether or not she has company, but this is a nice little bit of ambient/pop music from the summer of '99.

mp3 : Dot Allison - Message Personnel

I can't admit to buying this single back in the day it appeared, but I did pick it up on one of my sojourns into a second hand shop.

Dot Allison first came to my attention as the vocalist with One Dove, a band that had a fair bit of success in the early 90s with a sound that led more than one journalist to call them the Scottish equivalent of St Etienne. But they and she weren't acts that I paid too much attention to although I have a couple of One Dove CD singles sitting in the collection.

I probably wouldn't have picked up Message Personnel other than the fact it was only £2 and the b-side had some promise as far as I was concerned:-

mp3 : Dot Allison - Message Personnel (Arab Strap Remix)

This, in my humble opinion, is a superior recording to the original. It really has got the feel of the Strap circa the Philophobia era (which is no surprise given it was around then that this single emerged). I listen to this and still think at some point the dulcet tones of Aidan Moffat will come in and give us a tale of sexual shenanigans and drug-taking in Falkirk.....

Oh and the guitar playing on this single is courtesy of Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine fame.....

Happy Listening

(This was the post written but pulled the day I closed down TVV last month.....so in a sense, this is hopefully things getting back to normal)