(Drawing) Rings Around The Worldwas the second single taken from the band’s fifth album, Rings Around The World. It was released on 8 October 2001 on 12″ vinyl and on enhanced CD which also contained the promo video. Each version had three songs, albeit just two tunes:- mp3: Super ...
My intention was to listen immediately to CD2. However, the weather had other ideas, and I was rained off. On my speedy and damp walk back, I promised myself I’d listen to CD2 the following day. I did. I experienced the same rush: faces, places and any other word that will fit ...
I’m not an artist. I don’t know how they take what is in their heads and send that impulse down their arm, through the wrist and hand, and let three little fingers do some walking and make the imagery that happens. I don’t full understand the ideas of balance and composition and...
Their academic background meant that Almond and Ball had innovative ideas and ways to add to the music they were making and they also emerged just as video was becoming an integral part of the make-up of pop singers and bands; in some ways, they were in the right place at exactly the ...
It was one of the regular updates from the Monorail store here in Glasgow that alerted me, some seven years after I should have known about such things, to the very existence ofThe Catenary Wires, drawing attention to a new album of theirs calledBirling Gap. For those of you who are pe...