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July 18, 2005
BBC Scotland - Air with Vic Galloway Session
Out of the blue, a post appears on the Biffy Board...
...from Neil, the band's tour manager, announcing that the band will be appearing on Vic Galloway's Airshow, on BBC Radio Scotland later on in the evening. This is of course noteworth in itself, but even moreso for the fact that it wasn't mentioned in the weekly dispatches that the BBC send out each week detailing the playlists. Even more interestingly, the session is live in George Square!
As I pass by the Square on my way home from the gym, i can see the band setting up - bizarre, and random! By the time 8.25 comes, the band are there, and it's a bit airy, but that doesn't deter the crowd of some 20 or 30 emo thinglings, boarders, random passersby and neds that have congregated to see what the three bearded men with guitars are going to do.
After a brief interview, the band play a rather nice version of Glitter and Trauma, with the classic line 'you never listen... neds never listen'... in response the be-tracksuited youths bobbing around on the periphery of the crowd talking fluently in senga-ese. Another few words with the band follow (not that anyone in the crowd can hear it - the powers that be in the control van have elected not to have the band's vocal mikes running through the PA, whilst Galloway's is... go figure!), before they play... *gasp* - a new song! It's called As Dust Dances, and is rather lovely... it's hard to tell whether or not it's a rocker or not, because the stripped down version of G&T is so far away from the original that I don't think you can draw any conclusions about As Dusk Dances, other than it's a very deep song.
There are a few rips (of varying quality) of the session kicking about yousendit and the like...
As Dust Dances isn't released yet, and although it's being distributed around anyway, I don't think it'd be appropriate to put it up here for download, as it's still unreleased, and possibly not finalised. After the new album's out next year.. then we'll see.
You can, however, listen to it again for the next week or so (till about the 25th of July)
Posted by Chris at July 18, 2005 08:25 PM
Comments
Hi, I just thought you might like to know, I've put up some better quality mp3's of the George Square set, there is a link to the files in the Live Shows and Tour News area of the Board. By the way I think its cool your not putting as dust dances up on the site, but if u want it its there also.
Posted by: Stew at July 20, 2005 08:17 AM
Isn't it called As DUST Dances... rather than DUSK?
Posted by: Stu at July 20, 2005 05:20 PM
It is indeed... having made a typo the first time, I repeated it. Spanner. Stew - I might well take you up on it, just a matter of getting time to download and reupload the songs. :-) I've got As Dusk Dances anyway.
Cheeeers.
Posted by: Chris at July 20, 2005 06:58 PM