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Despite being either 21 (singer and guitarist Sam Jolly, drummer Jack Garside) or 22 (bassist Adam Neil and guitarist Jack Wharton), there is a melancholy to Eight Legs that evokes experience rather than innocence. Songs like Climb the Walls and These Grey Days speak of parties that ended in drunken disaster, text message arguments between estranged young couples, and even that perennial rock and roll topic, boredom. Yet somehow the music lifts the mundane teenage neuroses into something strangely grand, beautiful, and universal. Thats why Eight Legs found itself sound-tracking the Dior Homme Winter 06 show, despite being unsigned and having previously done nothing more high-profile than support minor U.K. rock heroes the Cribs. After being recommended the music by a model he cast on the street in London, Hedi Slimane fell under the spell of Eight Legs chiming, classically English romantic rock. The Dior show saw the two and a half minute These Grey Days reworked into a fifteen-minute elegy, drawing out a mood that perfectly suited the monochrome, aristocratic clothes. The gig pictured here, which took place two weeks later, saw Eight Legs, which is from Stratford-Upon-Avon, play in the much more conventional setting of a dive-y indie rock club. But the sense of otherworldly beauty remained, even in a sweatbox 20 feet below Oxford Street.
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Raketenmichl wrote:
i miss `just so you know`
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d0h15 wrote:
yeah, their second album really does suck. Anyway the first one is still awesome!
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meglarr wrote:
ooh i love it.
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nDroae wrote:
yay a spider! ^_^
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apevelyn wrote:
(L)
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Kwas91 wrote:
the new album is terrible :-/ i'm so disappointed [2]
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lambeth_tom wrote:
http://polish-tender-hooligan.blogspot.com/2009/08/eight-legs-electric-kool-aid-cuckoo_19.html
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Barock94 wrote:
Hmm... the new album is weird, but not bad =)
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YesMother wrote:
Cool band.
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Raketenmichl wrote:
it´s nice....
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genxs wrote:
the new album is terrible :-/ i'm so disappointed
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JimmyAxSd wrote:
Bet they'll get loads of fans due to These Grey Days being on that advert.
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LateOfThePier wrote:
can't get my hands on the new album.. kinda pissed
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WEIGHTwatchers_ wrote:
Jack Wharton ♥
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frekklesxxx wrote:
:) good music
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Julian-Thome wrote:
Hey, check out
Run For Your Life
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karliemouse wrote:
hahaha they made my birthday the best ever!
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arcticwombat wrote:
nice 2. album! amazing band .__.
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Wittiginia wrote:
Eight legs had had a fabulos gig here in Hannover on Wednesday yayay
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Skixx wrote:
Die machen das wie die Beatles. Immer schön Hamburg und dann dicker Hype :D
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