British Sea Power

Sergeant

The wonderful British Sea Power have a new album out, Valhalla Dancehall. Not as instantly catchy as Do You Like Rock Music?, but after a few listens I think it's another great album from them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB5HJBBC4LU

teekayd25

Great band, have been turning into one of my favourite bands over the last couple of years.

Missed out seeing them at the Brixton Academy in October because James Dean Bradfield got laringitis, meaning those shows got postponed.

I was surprised that they didn't get any real publicity / recognition over here around the time of the Man of Aran soundtrack.

Sergeant

teekayd25 wrote: »

I was surprised that they didn't get any real publicity / recognition over here around the time of the Man of Aran soundtrack.

Magnificent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0RAdfrQwvo

orourkeda

They are brilliant.I love their music

InTheTrees

I just bought Man Of Aran based on this thread...

InTheTrees

Holy crap. I bought man of aran yesterday and listened while at work.

First ten minutes I thought I'd made a huge mistake, i mean its not the best intro to a band to listen to their soundtrack to a 1930's documentary. But I've seen the film a few times so I could picture it and over the next hour I was just blown away. Stunned. An amazing piece of work. I must listen again...

(Its an unfortunate name though...)

homerun_homer

I must get the Man of Aran. I've all their albums bar this one.

teekayd25

InTheTrees wrote: »

Holy crap. I bought man of aran yesterday and listened while at work.

First ten minutes I thought I'd made a huge mistake, i mean its not the best intro to a band to listen to their soundtrack to a 1930's documentary. But I've seen the film a few times so I could picture it and over the next hour I was just blown away. Stunned. An amazing piece of work. I must listen again...

(Its an unfortunate name though...)

A username like InTheTrees bodes well anyway, as the group used to bring actual foliage on stage with them during their early years

homerun_homer wrote: »

I must get the Man of Aran. I've all their albums bar this one.

Was slow to actually pick up Man of Aran myself, was probably busy catching up on the first two or three albums

InTheTrees

teekayd25 wrote: »

A username like InTheTrees bodes well anyway, as the group used to bring actual foliage on stage with them during their early years

Also... believe it or not my mum was in the brit navy...

thesultan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8CgClB3sd4

Tiddlers

Anyone going to the gig tonight? I can't wait.Been a few years since I last saw them, at Oxegen '08. Always a great gig with them!

bigfeller

Tiddlers wrote: »

Always a great gig with them!

And it was last night, cracking gig.

Tiddlers

I thought it started off a bit subdued but,yeah,brilliant gig. Bought myself a British Tea Power mug too!

teekayd25

Hadn't checked for any new vids from them for a while . . .

I don't know which smiley to include with this post so I'll take a bunch of them

:pac::eek::D:o:pac::cool:


(N.S.F.W.)

Great track as well, up there with their best :cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij6Hz96Oh7E

notnumber

New album stream here..just picked a ticket for a score for the upcoming academy gig..expecting great things!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2013/mar/26/british-sea-power-machineries-of-joy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHUes0dGjUI

notnumber

Bumped down to the academy 2 ..slow ticket sales no doubt..Not the best timing given Camden Crawl I guess.
Post-gig:
well that ranks amongst the best e20 I ever spent..They played for 90mins solid..Fantastic band.

Acosta

teekayd25 wrote: »

I was surprised that they didn't get any real publicity / recognition over here around the time of the Man of Aran soundtrack.

Might have helped them if they had actually come over here and played it live at some point. As far as i know there was vague plans to play it out on one of the Islands but it never materialised. A Galway gig would be great. Surprising that they have not come over here and played it considering they have played a few gigs here supporting all their main albums to date.

Good news is there back here next month playing Cork on the February 5th, Dublin on the 6th and Belfast on the 7th.

Saw them over in England on October and they were in flying form. One of the best sets I've ever seen them play.