*Kelvingrove Bandstand, Glasgow*
A trawl through back-catalogue riches gave this Commonwealth Games party a more than sporting chance
During the Commonwealth Games 2014 opening ceremony, raspy tomcat Rod Stewart trolled a global audience of millions by insisting on playing Can't Stop Me Now, a functional but unloved song from his current album. On the other side of Glasgow, Belle and Sebastian take the opposite approach to headlining their own Games opening party, staged in a newly pristine 2,000-capacity venue, for whose restoration they campaigned.
"We thought we'd trawl through the back catalogue," says singer Stuart Murdoch. "We've got a lot of old songs that were written within a half-mile radius of here." It's not as if the host city's most cherished indie veterans don't have anything to promote their as-yet-untitled ninth studio album is set for release later this year, while Murdoch's crowdfunded movie fantasia God Help the Girl, his debut as writer and director, comes out next month. But if you subscribe to the theory that B&S were at their most bookishly magnificent in the early running, when they materialised out of nowhere in the late 90s with three staggeringly fully formed albums, the focus on vintage material is even more of a treat than the uncommonly sunny weather.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 13 hours ago.
A trawl through back-catalogue riches gave this Commonwealth Games party a more than sporting chance
During the Commonwealth Games 2014 opening ceremony, raspy tomcat Rod Stewart trolled a global audience of millions by insisting on playing Can't Stop Me Now, a functional but unloved song from his current album. On the other side of Glasgow, Belle and Sebastian take the opposite approach to headlining their own Games opening party, staged in a newly pristine 2,000-capacity venue, for whose restoration they campaigned.
"We thought we'd trawl through the back catalogue," says singer Stuart Murdoch. "We've got a lot of old songs that were written within a half-mile radius of here." It's not as if the host city's most cherished indie veterans don't have anything to promote their as-yet-untitled ninth studio album is set for release later this year, while Murdoch's crowdfunded movie fantasia God Help the Girl, his debut as writer and director, comes out next month. But if you subscribe to the theory that B&S were at their most bookishly magnificent in the early running, when they materialised out of nowhere in the late 90s with three staggeringly fully formed albums, the focus on vintage material is even more of a treat than the uncommonly sunny weather.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 13 hours ago.