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Life Without Buildings - XFM Sessions
Life Without Buildings - XFM Sessions
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This release features two acoustic radio sessions recorded in 2000 and 2001 for John Kennedy’s show on XFM. These stripped back versions of the songs retain all of their energy and intricacy while providing the perfect platform for Sue’s iconic delivery.
Speaking on the sessions, guitarist, Robert Dallas Gray, says: “I honestly can’t remember the specifics of them! I’m probably a bit thrown by there being video of us (by John Cheves)… We were in London quite a lot around that time, often staying with John and his partner Manami.
The only thing I can definitely remember is the engineer’s hat pretty much lifting off his head when Sue sang the first ‘Whiter!’ in Envoys. One of his dials slammed into a position it’d never been in before and he said ‘blimey’… and that the acoustic guitar I played or both those sessions belonged to Colin Hardie.
We did play a few acoustic things (prior to these sessions), including a full show at the 13th Note, which I have a recording of somewhere… we might have done an acoustic session for Radio Scotland before the XFM ones - they were just easier for the stations to do, they could have you in and chat to you and then you could play something quite informally. I think Will hated it, having to use brushes and tippy-tap away, ha ha.
(John Kennedy’s support of the band) was early and consistent, really. He organised the Twitter Listening Party for the reissue Any Other City n 2022 so he’s remained a supporter of the band all that time.
It’s nice to have the document, and I’m really pleased we managed to make something lasting out of John’s video, with the sleeve. I do slightly share Sue’s bemusement that people are still interested in these things, but yes, it’s nice.”
Speaking on the sessions, guitarist, Robert Dallas Gray, says: “I honestly can’t remember the specifics of them! I’m probably a bit thrown by there being video of us (by John Cheves)… We were in London quite a lot around that time, often staying with John and his partner Manami.
The only thing I can definitely remember is the engineer’s hat pretty much lifting off his head when Sue sang the first ‘Whiter!’ in Envoys. One of his dials slammed into a position it’d never been in before and he said ‘blimey’… and that the acoustic guitar I played or both those sessions belonged to Colin Hardie.
We did play a few acoustic things (prior to these sessions), including a full show at the 13th Note, which I have a recording of somewhere… we might have done an acoustic session for Radio Scotland before the XFM ones - they were just easier for the stations to do, they could have you in and chat to you and then you could play something quite informally. I think Will hated it, having to use brushes and tippy-tap away, ha ha.
(John Kennedy’s support of the band) was early and consistent, really. He organised the Twitter Listening Party for the reissue Any Other City n 2022 so he’s remained a supporter of the band all that time.
It’s nice to have the document, and I’m really pleased we managed to make something lasting out of John’s video, with the sleeve. I do slightly share Sue’s bemusement that people are still interested in these things, but yes, it’s nice.”
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