doing the album thing -- Massive Attack

by **Kounelaki** » Wed Oct 31, 2018 2:06 am

Massive Attack to embark on Mezzanine tour with Cocteau Twins' Liz Fraser
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/ ... liz-fraser

Love that album.

by **Kounelaki** » Wed Oct 31, 2018 3:01 am

Never saw this video back in the day. What a song.

by **fat cherry** » Wed Oct 31, 2018 6:03 am

Ive read the interview with frazer, linked at the bottom of that article, before. Worth a look for anyone with a cocteaus record in their collection. Mrs FC hates them, but i think she's wrong. Plus theres a bunnymen connection there.

And this

and Scritti Politti's Green Gartside said the vocally gymnastic Fraser was his third favourite melodicist of all time (behind Paul McCartney and Brian Wilson).

Third eh?

by **Kounelaki** » Wed Oct 31, 2018 8:01 am

01-28 Glasgow, Scotland - SSE Hydro
01-28 Manchester, England - Manchester Arena
01-31 Brussels, Belgium - Palias 12
02-01 Amsterdam, Netherlands - AFAS Live
02-04 Frankfurt, Germany - Jahrhunderthalle
02-05 Munich, Germany - Zenith
02-06 Milan, Italy - Mediolanum Forum
02-08 Rome, Italy - Palalottomatica
02-09 Padua, Italy - Kioene Arena
02-11 Paris, France - Zenith
02-13 Nantes, France - Zenith de Nantes Metropole
02-14 Bordeaux, France - Bordeaux Metropole Arena
02-18 Lisbon, Portugal - Campo Pequeno
02-22 London, England - O2 Arena
02-24 Dublin, Ireland - 3Arena
03-01 Bristol, England - Steel Yard, Bristol

by **Kounelaki** » Wed Oct 31, 2018 10:55 am

fat cherry wrote:Ive read the interview with frazer, linked at the bottom of that article, before. Worth a look for anyone with a cocteaus record in their collection. Mrs FC hates them, but i think she's wrong. Plus theres a bunnymen connection there.

I prefer when Liz Fraser sings in English with other people.

by **Kounelaki** » Wed Oct 31, 2018 11:05 am

Has any band ever had a better first three-album run than Blue Lines - Protection - Mezzanine?

Hmm. Crocodiles-Heaven Up Here-Porcupine? Wonder what Joy Division's third album would have been like it had Ian Curtis not topped himself.

by **fat cherry** » Wed Oct 31, 2018 12:55 pm

I bet it would have sounded like everything's gone green, or Dollar.

by **fat cherry** » Wed Oct 31, 2018 12:57 pm

Kounelaki wrote:01-28 Glasgow, Scotland - SSE Hydro
01-28 Manchester, England - Manchester Arena

Saw that and thought, hmmm, maybes and then I read this at the Arena site:

The show will re-imagine Mezzanine twenty one years on from its release

and thought, uh-oh. Also going to be a 'one off'

by **fat cherry** » Wed Oct 31, 2018 1:00 pm

Love that first mortal coil album. Couldn't play it around a previous Mrs FC because of the line 'your mother's dead your mother's dead......', because, well, you know, and she'd get upset. Women eh?

by **Kounelaki** » Wed Oct 31, 2018 1:07 pm

fat cherry wrote:I bet it would have sounded like everything's gone green, or Dollar.

by **Kounelaki** » Wed Oct 31, 2018 1:14 pm

fat cherry wrote:Love that first mortal coil album. Couldn't play it around a previous Mrs FC because of the line 'your mother's dead your mother's dead......', because, well, you know, and she'd get upset. Women eh?

I liked all three of the albums. Kim Deal singing on "You and Your Sister" on Blood. Didn't know that "Come Here My Love" was a Van Morrison song.

How many Mrs FCs/lineups have there been? (Nosey.)

by **fat cherry** » Thu Nov 01, 2018 1:03 pm

Same with another day / roy harper.

As to lineups - its a bit like the bunnymen - a small number of official ones and not all of those recognised or approved of by former members (members, lol) or the general public. Plus there's the solo years and the odd collaboration of course. There was even a very short lived reformation of a classic lineup and it was great for a short while - a few greatest hits gigs, and the occasional reimagined B-side, but you know, didn't sit right futurewise. And I know it sounds a cliche but the current one is by far the best (not that I rank them).

by **Kounelaki** » Thu Nov 01, 2018 6:04 pm

fat cherry wrote:Same with another day / roy harper.

As to lineups - its a bit like the bunnymen - a small number of official ones and not all of those recognised or approved of by former members (members, lol) or the general public. Plus there's the solo years and the odd collaboration of course. There was even a very short lived reformation of a classic lineup and it was great for a short while - a few greatest hits gigs, and the occasional reimagined B-side, but you know, didn't sit right futurewise. And I know it sounds a cliche but the current one is by far the best (not that I rank them).

by **crystal daze** » Fri Nov 02, 2018 11:08 am

So the previous Mrs. F.C., the other previous Mrs F. C. etc ... isn't quite as many as Milton's grandfathers?

by **Kounelaki** » Fri Nov 09, 2018 2:47 am

They've added a second date in Paris so I was able to get a ticket. :biggrin:

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