The plan had been to go into Glasgow city centre for the organised festivities and subsequently post a review of the gig featuring The View and The Fratellis – maybe even put up a few of my own photos. But the appalling weather – heavy rain and winds gusting up to 70mph – led to the event being cancelled on safety grounds. Mrs Villian was still feeling a bit groggy from this cold/flu bug that’s doing the rounds, so we ended up with a very low-key evening.
So instead I’ve decided to focus on a band previously mentioned in the blog who might just crack it big in 2007.
I saw The Pierces support Albert Hammond Jr a short while back, and was reasonably impressed by them. As I said before, the band consists of two sisters – Alison & Catherine Pierce. They were backed in concert by (as I later learned) a sort of New York indie-supergroup with blokes from Longwave, Fischerspooner, the Jon Spencer Blues Experience and Mooney Suzuki. I also found out that Catherine (the blonde) is the girlfriend of Albert Hammond Jr.
I suppose it would be easy to turn on the cynicism tap and argue that a combination of the striking good looks of the sisters, and the connections they have in the biz, are the things that will take them places.
But, on the evidence of what I heard in concert, these girls do have a lot of talent and, more importantly, a bunch of decent songs.
It is really difficult to pin them down with a particular label – for instance there was some folk, some blues, some pop and some almost Latino-style dance grooves during the 40 minutes or so they were on stage. I understand that their debut LP is coming out in early 2007, and I’ll be keeping an eye out for it.
In the meantime, I’m posting a couple of mp3s that I was able to download a while back from their my space page – bear in mind that these are demo versions:-
mp3 : The Pierces – Go To Heaven
mp3 : The Pierces – Boy In A Rock’n’Roll Band
(Hmmm…..I wonder who the second song could be about??)
It’ll be back to some old stuff from the 80s tomorrow. But I’ll be staying in the USofA.