The Waiting Room 2.0

Back on 13th April 2009 ½DC dragged TWoTH & a handful of friends along to the Buffalo Bar (in Cardiff) to see the audience dividing Trembling Bells.  Part of their ill-timed first tour proper (their debut album was being released the week after they came off the road), their gig in Cardiff was quite something — a lot harder than on record, more experimental & sounding strangely more together.  Even TWoTH was won over by their excellent energy & set.

Of course, it’s not a TWR interview without a TWR moment taking place somewhere in the middle of an important bit; this one is no exception.  Just after Alex Neilson (erstwhile impressario & band leader) started to brilliantly dissect a comment comparing him to a lo-fi Brian Wilson the damn recording device decided to stop working.  ½DC only noticed this after the lengthy tennis Q&A.

However, but & still… the remaining audio capture was intensely interesting — Alex & Lavinia & the others all explaining in detail just how they harness the chaos of Alex’s cross-country phonetic songwriting & turn it into the wondrous psych-opera folk bombast we hear on record.

Remarkable stuff indeed.

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