The Bad Seeds
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Glasgow Academy, 5th November 2004. They were touring Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus, and had the four gospel singers from that album in tow with them. They did a fifty-minute set of the new songs - which were a serious return to form and a career peak in and of themselves…

The live version of Fourth Time Around on the fourth Bootleg Series.

The 'it' I revisited being The Man Who, not The Invisible Band. It's still shit. Like my phrasing.

Travis
Being a thirteen year-old Glaswegian at the time of its release, I was nationalistically obligated to love The Man Who, the same way every kid beginning to get into music always roots for local guys made good before they develop their own strong musical personality (if I were that age just now I'd probably feel…

Songs From Northern Britain
Are Teenage Fanclub really not so well known/liked outside Scotland, even in indie circles? Even now, they're still pretty universally beloved on the Glaswegian indie scene in particular - Norman Blake especially is very much a kind of father figure to a lot of younger bands, playing…

Toby Young
Do Americans know who Toby Young is? He's such a prick that Will Self was once moved to throwing him on a bonfire. It didn't take, sadly. He really is a prick.

Go back to your home on Whore Island.

Ironsides?
Did he have those installed to keep his regular sides from splitting? Y'know, from all the over-eating? Amirightfolks? High five!

Daniel Johnston
It wasn't at a festival, but was another kind of 'had to be there moment': I work in a Glasgow arts venue, and earlier this summer we were lucky enough to host one of Daniel Johnston's three UK shows where his backing band were James McNew from Yo La Tengo, Norman Blake from Teenage Fanclub, Mark…

Ain't nothing wrong with being Canadian. Just wanted to explain away my ignorance of the upcoming election there.

Can I just make clear, as the thread-starter, that I'm not actually Canadian either? Cheers.

+5 internets for George.

Unfortunately Canadian, incidentally, would be an awesome band/label name. Unfortunately Scottish doesn't have the same ring. Unfortunately Glaswegian, maybe…

Well…
I could lie about it and pretend I'm American just to hear the track. But that would seem at odds with its ethical aims. Plus, I would be afraid that Jeff Tweedy might find out… somehow, and do… something.

Deadpan
Yeah, it seems a clear-cut case of straight-faced irony. If it wasn't already clear, I think the section on the flood makes it so, 'possibly trapped sea-birds' in particular. Without wanting to seem snippy, I'm surprised the AV Club of all places has its doubts.

:D
"One of the girl's totally has divorced parents. :( " = best use of an emoticon, ever. Kudos, Rabin, you magnificent bastard you.

Not available anywhere:
The Sniper, by Edward Dmytryk. Caught it on FilmFour (Channel Four in the UK's free-view movie channel) a couple of months back when they snuck it out at some ungodly hour of the night and (no pun intended) it blew me away. Amazingly ahead of its time for 1952, a clear influence on everything…

From all the masturbating?

"that big LP called Life"
I always knew Sammy Davis Jr. would dig Sly & The Family Stone.

Whatever, I'm just excited I managed to get 'DEFINITION' followed by 'RE:DEFINITION' in an article with a Mos Def reference.