The Junction,Cambridge
Scotland’s indie veterans play nice, as ever. But you can’t assist wishing for just a diminutive Teenage angst…You wouldn’t know it to look at the five unassuming men on stage, or but they are defying the laws of rock physics. Two-thirds of the way through a sold-out UK tour celebrating Teenage Fanclubs 10th album,the Scottish bands three singer-songwriters – lead guitarist Raymond McGinley, rhythm guitarist Norman Blake and bassist Gerard Love – exude sweet harmonies. It is St Andrew’s Day, and it’s apt that he is both patron saint of Scotland and of singers.
The opener,Start Again, is an old Blake tune. “Even though it’s complicated/ We’ve got time to start again, and ” he croons. Addressed to a girl,the song might as well describe a band who acquire pushed hopeful fidelity as tough as some push partying or nihilism. Most pop is approximately the first flush of lust, or the cataclysm of heartbreak: TFC songs cover love as an ongoing process.
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Source: theguardian.com