You say Bananarama! We say Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat!
Yes, Chemikal’s dynamic duo are back with a subdued take on Bananarama’s 1983 hit (and not a wrench or Mack truck in sight). The track’s taken from the pair’s latest EP (also entitled Cruel Summer, and also features the tracks “Box it Up”, “Man of the Cloth” and “Lonely Weekend”. Sounds like the usual cheery fare, then…
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After poking its head into yesterday’s Music Monday, Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat’s “The Copper Top” now has a video available for your viewing pleasure. It’s funereal in pretty much a literal sense, but with a lot of charm and not a small amount of wit – as you’d expect from Moffat. The Funeral You’ve Worked Your Whole Life For, indeed; and the pair have been waiting a while to get this together. Since Wells provided music for Arab Strap’s Monday at the Hug and Pint, in fact. Well, after all these years the collaboration is finally due: “The Copper Top” is taken from forthcoming LP Everything’s Getting Older, which is out on 10th May.
Mondays are for going on a crime spree
Kids on a crime spree – Sweet Tooth (via widget)
Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat – The Copper Top (via their own page)
Dan Hubbard and the Humadors – The Last Time You See Me (via soundcloud)
Grandpa Was A Lion – Funeral March For A Black King Because Nobody Loves A Genius Child (via bandcamp)
He’s My Brother, She’s My Sister – Escape Tonight (via band’s page)
Out now from Chemikal Underground is something that’s a bit of a departure for them: a first audiobook release. The Year of Open Doors is an anthology of new short fiction showcasing writers from and/or writing in Scotland. Edited by Rodge Glass (Writer in Residence at Strathclyde University, and the Somerset Maugham award winning author of novels No Fireworks and Hope for Newborns as well as Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography), it’s a collection which tries to bring together the best new work being from the Northern Regions of the UK. As pointed out by Glass in the introduction to the volume, it’s envisioned as an introduction and a set of open doors for a group of new authors. I have to say, on a personal level I also appreciate the reference to Catherine Carswell’s criminally under-read 1920 novel Open the Door!
The Music Slut approves of this new artwork for the cover of former Arab Strapper Aidan Moffat’s (or Aidan John Moffat as he’s styling himself) new LP 10 Short Songs for Modern Lovers.
“A brief, intimate portrait of an artist past his prime. Four years after their split, former Arab Strap vocalist Aidan Moffat still struggles to come to terms with the breakdown of the band, and in particular his relationship with ex-song-writing partner Malcolm Middleton.”
A brilliant new release from the former Arab Strap vocalist!
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