Stornoway

"You're spread like butter on the bed linen"

Monday July 26, 2010

The Mystery Jets’ album Serotonin may be (extremely caressful on the ears and) a gentle reminder of Ollie’s last four years, which culminated as follows outside the record store on campus:

…but his head is stuck firmly in the music. We four are enjoying a few days off refamiliarising ourselves with our instruments. It’s funny, this biz: the bizzier you get, the less time you have to enjoy that first pure hobby that set it all rolling – songwriting. Having toured on and off for many months now we’re finding our fingers hardened by the road but our minds softened by the schedules… A chance to play some scales is most welcome! Writing towards Album II will begin soon.

Great news. NME have the exclusive on our new music video: tiny.cc/mondaynightinJune

We leave you with this treat from last week’s five-song session which was filmed at the Rotunda in Oxford. There’s no telling from these pictures, but it’s a disused dollhouse museum which has been reinvented as a model green-lifestyle abode. It’s fantastic; just wait for the footage to arrive at 4ad.com, you’ll see!

Autumn

Friday November 4, 2011 Comment

After a much-enjoyed last show of the year in a giant slaughterhouse in Paris, I returned home to a scattering of yellow leaves among the junk mail. On a trip out to Otmoor today gangs of marauding tits were revealed within their scantily-clad hedgerows while the cows pock-marked the newly softened meadows. Gunfire from the military range next-door punctured the soft hush of wind through barbed wire, and men floated down from a circling bomber like jellyfish. Up in Shotover the horses had their coats on and weak afternoon sunlight filtered through the sycamores revealing a lone Shaggy Parasol opening above the leaf litter. Tonight we have corn on the cob, and FIRE! I can’t believe its dark already.

Love Brian