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BADLY DRAWN BOY King Tut’s. Glasgow. Sat 9 Sep 0...
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l or K DEVENDRA BANHART ABC. Glasgow. Sat 2 Sep 0000
The reasons; you loved a Irve show don't always; match the reasons you went along in the trrst place. Those who dropped hy to sample the artful folk ot
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’itiit‘ i’t f’vt THE VIOLETS Fast at the Bongo Club. Edinburgh,
Fri 8 Sep 000
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While ther' one rnarr‘ rntluerrrm '5; pretty ()t)\’i()llt$. though. that's; not to my they're not urgent and contemporary Therr convert;er hrrstlrng hut tunerea: sound on scr‘gs like ‘Hush Away" anr: 'Car'nrval' inspires twrtchy shoulder dancing on the dancetloor. and their Singer Alexn; has a :3rrnrlarli' (ili$illt(li!‘.r: twoitone elegance rr‘. her style, Ito M,"
voice that give:; the game away though.
an ethereal Siouxsre—lrke thing that floats; over the mussrc. whooping and rrsrng rn all the wrong places yet sounding so oddly right.
Apparently The Violets think :sucn comparisons; fall into that trrne worr‘ 'Ia/y r()urnalr:;rn' category. hut perhapt; they're rust hlrndrng themselves; to the utterly obvious Whatever. they're n )t a bad hand. lDayId Pollock.
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/ )"l(i ’ l.2 F~ " ,.f Iii. Although Peter (Moren). Bjorn (Yttling) and John (Eriksson) are recognised in their native Sweden and have been labouring away in comfortable obscurity everywhere else for some years now. it's taken a collaboration wrth a more internationally noted Swedish singer to bring them to our attention.
How did that come about, then?
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So is it the only song they recorded?
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