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"The house is on fire"

	Patrick Swayze!	228 dni temu
	Hello, Wilkommen, Bon Matin, etc etc It is a fine Saturday morning (it actually is - the skies are pretty blue outside, which is a welcome change to dismal piss that's fallen from the skies through the week - I would have been, had the weather been decent last night, in the middle of a campsite in Callander just now and not in my bed at 8am with only my underpants on and my laptop across me) and what better way to bring in the day than by writing another thrilling blog? I've often said I'm unsure of who actually reads these (judging by the number of comments left after my epic novel from last weekend - very few...) but having spoken to a few friends, they say the actually enjoy these inane ramblings. Why? I do not know. The self-deprecating wit? The insight into being the bass player in noise-pop outfit Marlow? The fine use of similie and metaphor? (I did English Literature at University for four years, I need to channel my literary skills and techniques somewhere because I'm not utilising them at work putting stickers on boxes for eight-and-half hours a day...) I even have a friend currently living in Australia and she reads them - the word of Marlow spreads across oceans... So long may it continue! I wasn't too sure what to write about this morning - I suppose I can only really offer an update on what's happened in the last week or so coupled with some thoughts and feelings on love, life and literature. And that's yer lot. The week started well with a good practice in Edinburgh on the Monday night where we finished Low Winter Sun, a song that's fast becoming one of my favourites. The genesis of this song is actually a very strange one - I had a riff on the piano (!) that sounded like something that parodied Springsteen - not Springsteen himself, but one of these bands that have popped up in the last few years that make absolutely no effort to disguise the fact that they're ripping of The Boss and the E-Street Band (The Hold Steady, I'm looking in your direction) - that Kippy described as "too heroic". If you were to hear it, you'd be like, "Cool, which album is that off, The River or Born In The USA? Or is that something by one of "those" bands?". He was round at my house and we were trying to get something to take into practice for the next night and we were mucking around with bits and bobs, trying to see if we could use that piano riff (which was named "A River Runs Through America" for that special touch), my brother sitting in and trying to offer some advice, listening to Boy and October for inspiration and not really getting anywhere... Until one of us, I can't remember who, came up with the Em-D-Bm chord sequence for the verse (I'm giving all our secrets away here!). The rest of the song pretty much came from there. In practice, we had the idea that it should be a bit Friendly Fires-ish, with a spikey verse and uplifting chorus... and it all seemed to sort itself out after that. K-Man started using his Slicer unit to create this fragmented dancey signal, Quinny dusted the song in an icey reverb (fast becoming a speciality - it sounds pure and unique - the Marlow sound, nobody elses), I thumbed away at the roots notes (but do I care? Do I fuck, I could play augmented riffs, pentatonic scales, a million notes a minute all day long, but it sounds fucking crap compared to doing the simple thing - who the fuck wants to hear frantic bass work in Marlow anyway? Listen to us for the singing and the soundscapes, you want slapbass and all that, go and listen to the early RHCP stuff and never darken my door again) and Marky clattered away, getting this incredible drum sound... and we have a great song. In my mind, it sounds a bit like a cross between Friendly Fires and U2, but I think there's elements of My Bloody Valentine (a band I think we might begin to sound a bit like), Idlewild (the chorus sounds a bit like American English - remember that song? They could have "done a Snow Patrol" after that alnum but seemed doomed to remain on the fringes... Maybe that's the way they want it...) and The Blue Nile (the "breakdown" sounds like the middle section of A Walk Across The Rooftops)... But most of all, it sounds like MARLOW. You can listen to it and hear all these different elements from other bands, but most of all, it sounds like something that only we do, and that is something I'm immensely proud of. It's taken us a long time to get here, through the dull and uninventive "U2 tribute band" slurs to develop this. Painting with Music, or Guitar Socialism, whatever you want to describe it as. ***** I would like to point out that I had written a massive, a fucking massive blog, and for reasons only known to my computer, it clicked out of the page, and I had only saved the opening paragraphs. I do not have the patience to write it all out again, so I'll summarise. I AM FUCKING DISTRAUGHT. ***** Town Hall: Went OK, few sound problems, didn't play too well, but we seemed to go down favourably with the crowd. I like playing on big stages like that. Cassette show: Balls up after the venue lost their license and we're no longer playing anymore. I had written a huge and detailed description on what happened, but it's lost. We were very disappointed to be missing out on playing with a high calibre of band, but there will be other times... ROAD HOUSE: Possibly one of the campest but brilliant films I've ever seen, Craig from San Sebastian loaned me it (look at me, name dropping!) and I thoroughly recommend that you watch it too. King Tut's, 24th April: Get involved, this could be a really big night for us. Tickets £5, I'll have them by tonight and then we can get it on the go. Make sure YOU are there. And that's pretty much it. I had written all the way up to King Tut's and then lost all that work. Fucking gutter when that happens, it really is. There was so much to tell you. Look how detailed the opening paragraphs were. And looks at what followed. Fucking hell, I am raging, this took me nearly two hours to type up, and I fucking lost it all. There was some pure poetry in there too. So I conclude on a sombre note. Have a listen to Peace At Last by The Blue Nile - it's actually very good. Don't go in there thinking it'll be like A Walk Acriss The Rooftops or Hats, it's much different to that. I didn't like it at first, but after a few listens, it's a strong album. I am sorry that you are not able to see all the detail that I had written earlier. I hate my fucking computer. Craig G Telfer, The heartbroken blogger :-(
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