THE LIST: 25 YEARS
A LITTLE HELP FROM OUR FRIENDS
We’ve invited a few buddies to take part in The List: 25 Years. Here are just a few of the performers and collaborators who’ll be making the event magnificent
HUMAN DON’T BE ANGRY Malcolm Middleton recently debuted his spellbinding solo project at Fence’s Away Game festival, and The List has been hooked on Malc’s newly obtuse, noodling guitar work ever since. He has commented that it’s difficult to avoid doing a slow head-shake like Knopfler on those suspended guitar notes. www.malcolmmiddleton.co.uk
WASABI DISCO Kris Wasabi’s club night is a regular fixture at Sneaky Pete’s in Edinburgh, giving the capital a monthly shot of weekend electro- disco. Kris cut his teeth DJ-ing with electronic outfit xvectors and DJ duo Optimo, and is expected to showcase his expertly eclectic style. www.myspace.com/wasabidiscoclub
COME ON GANG! Since drummer/singer Sarah Tanat-Jones appeared beaming on our cover back in February we’ve been firmly fixated CoG! fans, and were particularly buoyed by the recent release of their excellent ‘Fortune Favours the Brave’ single. comeongang.co.uk
GRAEME RONALD Graeme Ronald, who records as Remember Remember, released his self- titled debut album in 2008 – a tremendously lovely mix of looping samples and twinkling instrumentation. New EP ‘RR Scorpii’ is released on Rock Action, 1 Nov. The EP launch party is at Stereo, Glasgow on Fri 5 Nov and will feature a newly formed seven-piece band. He plays solo for us. www.myspace.com/rememberremember
RM HUBBERT Not since Extreme slapped their way through ‘More Than Words’ have a guitar’s percussive abilities been more ably demonstrated. Glasgow’s Hubbert – guitar virtuoso, bleak-banter peddler, creator of the ‘will play for food’ scheme – captured our hearts with his fancy fretwork on debut LP First & Last. www.rmhubbert.com
MANY MORE NAMES TO BE ANNOUNCED!
Tickets for The List: 25 Years event are now on sale for £12 at www.thearches.co.uk. Visit The List on facebook or www.list.co.uk/party for more details.
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Mantle, Gold Panda, Moon Unit and Mogwai themselves. ‘We enjoyed the process too, because it was Simon and I who were getting in touch with the remixers. I was speaking to Ceephax Acid Crew [Essex’s Andy Jenkinson, brother of Tom, aka Squarepusher], who was a big influence on us when we started out. He told me how his computer had packed in and he had to buy a thirty pound PC off the internet and sit up all night drinking tea so he could finish the remix. It became a bit of an insight into the ramshackle lives of all these people we’d been inspired by.’ Remixes also inspired the forthcoming co-headline tour with The Twilight Sad. The latter have reworked Errors’ ‘Bridge or Cloud’ for the vinyl version of CCDWM, while Errors created a new version of ‘Reflection of the Television’ for Twilight Sad’s recent ‘The Wrong Car’ EP – the plan is to play it during these shows with The Sad’s James Graham guesting on vocals. ‘They’re obviously more of a guitar-based band than us,’ says Livingstone, ‘but what they do is interesting in that their guitars often sound like synthesisers, kind of like what My Bloody Valentine used to do.’
As to what the future holds, Errors have their eyes on South By South West next year and possibly a longer US jaunt. Ward also muses over the possibility of using vocals on the next album. ‘We’re none of us good singers,’ he says, ‘so maybe we could get guest vocalists in. Then again it would be hard to tour that live, but even if it was only a recorded project it would be something new to try.’
Errors play the Liquid Room, Edinburgh, Tue 12 Oct (with The Twilight Sad) and The List: 25 Years at The Arches, Glasgow, Fri 22 Oct. Celebrity Come Down With Me is released in Nov.