Post by The Curmudgeon on Feb 16, 2016 2:33:43 GMT 2
So we bid farwell to this latest series of 12 weeks of music (admittedly, it's probably been about 15 or so weeks. I know, I know), and I really have been struggling to find this video. Last week it was nowhere to be found. This week it's here. Fingers crossed you get to hear it before it vanishes again.
I'm bowing out with a fairly familiar name around these parts, even though it was from a group that was actually a side-project that was also a movie, and this is her first group that got her noticed to be invited into the group that would turn into a movie. Keep up.
I'll keep it simple. It's this delicious creature, also known as Catherine Ireton, also known as lead singer of God Help the Girl.
So I did a bit of research and she was in a group consisting mainly of her and her now ex-boyfriend. They called themselves "Elephant", and released just one album before they split up and the group split up. I thought it would be impossible to find, one of those albums I would spend my life trying to find. £3.50 on eBay, still sealed. Wonder of the net.
It's a weird album, a quirky, jazzy number full of breezy pop songs and some poignant melancholy (the song I actually wanted to play, "Rocking Chair", sounds like the sort of thing Ryan Adams would release. Its up to you whether that's a good thing or not). Clever but never smug, playful but never twee, Ireton's perfect vocal trills away so sweetly you'll miss lines like "maybe you'll slap me in the face and tell me to go the fuck away" from "Maybe Tomorrow." It's one of those albums that oddly captivates you, and you end up playing it on repeat for days on end. It's been my work travel companion now for the last few weeks.
Anyway, this is the opening track and a perfect example of what the album is about, and it's the album that got her the God Help the Girl gig in the first place. It's never going to be famous, you'll never meet anyone who's ever heard it, but I'm closing down my 12 week series with it just the same.
This is "If You're Lucky You'll End Up With Someone You Don't Hate." No video, sadly.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo8qhIpjT24
I'm bowing out with a fairly familiar name around these parts, even though it was from a group that was actually a side-project that was also a movie, and this is her first group that got her noticed to be invited into the group that would turn into a movie. Keep up.
I'll keep it simple. It's this delicious creature, also known as Catherine Ireton, also known as lead singer of God Help the Girl.
So I did a bit of research and she was in a group consisting mainly of her and her now ex-boyfriend. They called themselves "Elephant", and released just one album before they split up and the group split up. I thought it would be impossible to find, one of those albums I would spend my life trying to find. £3.50 on eBay, still sealed. Wonder of the net.
It's a weird album, a quirky, jazzy number full of breezy pop songs and some poignant melancholy (the song I actually wanted to play, "Rocking Chair", sounds like the sort of thing Ryan Adams would release. Its up to you whether that's a good thing or not). Clever but never smug, playful but never twee, Ireton's perfect vocal trills away so sweetly you'll miss lines like "maybe you'll slap me in the face and tell me to go the fuck away" from "Maybe Tomorrow." It's one of those albums that oddly captivates you, and you end up playing it on repeat for days on end. It's been my work travel companion now for the last few weeks.
Anyway, this is the opening track and a perfect example of what the album is about, and it's the album that got her the God Help the Girl gig in the first place. It's never going to be famous, you'll never meet anyone who's ever heard it, but I'm closing down my 12 week series with it just the same.
This is "If You're Lucky You'll End Up With Someone You Don't Hate." No video, sadly.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo8qhIpjT24
