Posts Tagged “It’s My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry”

Guess where Glasvegas are from…

Nice sixties, 8mm out-of-focus cinefilm touch to the video. (slow MySpace video replaced with YouTube version.) which you’ll now have to see on Youtube as embedding has now been disabled at I assume the request of the luddite record company.
They’ve been around for a while and I’ve only just stumbled across them due to the increased coverage they’re starting to receive.
Reluctantly, here’s their myspace link. Myspace may be a good networking resource and showplace but its templates seem to have been devised by a complete tool with no sense of direction or space.
Seems like the MySpace guy had a first attempt at a template, went for lunch and could never find his way back to the office. He’s probably been walking into the same lamppost for the last few years.

Single out in February
It’s My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry & Be My Baby, released on Sane Man Recordings 14/02/08

Some pretty poor quality videos on YouTube but you get the idea. Be My Baby sounds really promising but the audio quality is naff on YT.
I can’t put my finger on it but along with the Spector Wall Of Sound stuff maybe there’s a brutal Trashcan Sinatras in there…
Probably the retro style and video makes me think of Richard Hawley’s stuff as well. (yes, they may have hairstyles in common, but that’s not it.)
I wish the bloke would tweak his lyrics to Cole’s Corner and get Petula Clark to sing it. Maybe a duet, dropping in some Downtown, I Couldn’t Live Without Your Love or Don’t Sleep In The Subway somewhere along the line.

Revisiting some of the Trashcan Sinatras stuff, I can’t get over how good a band they were and still are.
Apart from their own stuff, they’re prepared to explore classic tracks from decades ago and other genres and do a bloody good job with them.

It’s worth having a look at them on YouTube and their homepage, where they are very generous with mp3 and video downloads..

The back and neck probs are slowly receding, so it’ll be back to politics and images from now on.

Oh yeah, … Happy New Year.