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Great gig tonight. Farewell to my favourite Scottish band who aren't Mogwai.

The acoustic finale with Packs of Three, (something else I can't remember - Here We Go maybe?), Loch Leven, Soaps and Shy Retirer was nothing short of brilliant - and it was fitting that they finished with just Aiden and Malcolm on stage for the encore following the mentalness of the First Big Weekend (with added balloons!).

Where should I start, discography-wise?

I'd start with the Cunted Circus live album (you really can't go wrong with any of the live releases) and Philophobia. Then, in no particular order - Elephant Shoe, The Red Thread, Monday at the Hug and Pint. There's always the new Ten Years Of Tears compilation as well.

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 01:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, and also 'The Week Never Starts Round Here'

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 01:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd have liked to have been at this tonight. I've seen them a few times, always patchy, but it sounds brilliant. I still rank The Night Before The Funeral high. Grimly OTM about the Red Thread.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 01:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Nice wee quote from Aidan in his Sunday Herald article:

We never did become the kind of rock stars we'd read about, but I would genuinely rather mean a lot to a little that a little to a lot.

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link

you'll always be a bigger man than me, grimly.

― colin0Hara (colin_o_hara), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 02:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks for the recommendations!

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 09:30 (seventeen years ago) link

malcolm middleton's two solo albums, however, have rocked my world: i remember i spent a large part of 2005 bigging up the last one on ILM, but the only other person who cared was marcello. ach.

I missed this bit. I really enjoyed both of his solo albums. Possibly more than Arab Strap's output.

― tissp! (tissp!), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I just got the new L. Pierre in the mail.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

i really like "hug & pint"

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

How is it? I haven't actually heard anything of Moffat's solo stuff.

(actually, didn't he do the fukd id thing with the Exorcist theme remix on it?)

xpost

― tissp! (tissp!), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

It's one of the greatest instrumental records of all-time and deserves a place amongst the pantheon of Bach, Mozart, Davis, GY!BE etc etc etc.

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Not really, but it's quite good in a meandering fucking-around-with-stuff kind of way. A good crash-out record.

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I like the idea of that, actually

― tissp! (tissp!), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

new l pierre album, 'dip', is truly sublime.
6 tracks - 38 minutes.
no laptop beats, very pure and organic, with a theme of nature throughout (seaguls/sea noises open and close the album, as per the cover art).
rather special i must say.

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

i wasn't too impressed by aidan's first one - good in parts - and haven't heard much he's done solo since. but you might be convincing me here, dudes.

― grimly fiendish (simon), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I too really like Malcolm Middleton's solo stuff. I feel I have now been suitably sold on Aiden Moffat's ventures, I just need to hear them now.

(xpost, or maybe not)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

My post was referring to 'Touchpool', not 'dip', which I've yet to hear.

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I will always wuv Malcolm for playing to a tiny audience at an early (the first?) Winchester Club and then coming back for more a few months later.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

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