This girl is Irish and has red hair – so might just be my idea of a perfect girl. That said, she’s also massively talented. My brother’s girlfriend posted one or two of her videos on Facebook and I have to admit, this is the most impressed I’ve been with a female singer-songwriter for a while (possibly since Emmy the Great’s first album). This girl looks to be one of these prolific Youtubers, with a fuckload of cover version videos from (presumably) her bedroom, but I’d be unsurprised if she crops up on the radio or in the charts soon. This song’s called Sixteen, but check out the other videos as well.
Straight off the back of their first three gigs, Crusades have been getting a lot of awesome attention, which is well deserved. Last night their track Pseudo Andro was played on national radio by Ally McCrae on his Introducing… show. Being referred to as, “Like At The Drive In but more hardcore” is a pretty big deal.
Anyway, if you’ve been living under a rock – or in Paisley, or somewhere equally culturally deprived – and you haven’t yet heard the band, you can check out and download the track for free here.
If you’d like to see it and more like it live, you should hit up The Captain’s Rest on Wednesday night to see the boys support The Darien Venture. It’ll only cost you £4 and it should be a cosy little evening. I’ll be propping up the bar as usual, so feel free to buy me a pint.
A few of my friends have formed a band called Crusades and they’re playing their first show on the 21st of this month with Blacklisters, Shapes & Citizens at Bar Bloc. I’ll be heading along to see what kind of noise they make. You should too.
More vanity today I’m afraid. I don’t really have much else to post at the moment. I’ve been working on some words and recording riffs and verses in snatches. Nothing’s finished, nothing’s polished. I recorded this in my living room a couple of months ago and I’ve just taken the privacy settings off of it on Youtube. It’s one of my favourite songs, one of my favourite bands, but I’m not saying it’s a good version – I just like finding songs I can easily sing in my own accent.
I’m jamming with friends today. I’d honestly forgotten how difficult it is, after years of playing with the same, accomplished musicians, to start a band and get used to new people and their playing styles. I’m not sure if the band will come to anything, but I’ll hopefully get a few more ego-stroking Youtube videos out of it.
So I finally decided to man up and set some of the random videos I’ve uploaded to Youtube over the past year to public. I tend to record these when I don’t have time to do anything more in-depth but I want to remember how a particular song goes. They end up on Youtube when I want to show them to someone, normally a band-mate or my brother. Here’s one that’s at least short and sweet.
I’d forgotten about this song until my friend Lesley posted it on Facebook this week. Something Mark showed me over a year go, this track – by some fellow Glaswegians – has the best chorus/outro I’ve heard in a long time. It’s pretty good.
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