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Kilsyth, Glasgow, United Kingdom (2003 – present)
The Twilight Sad are an indie rock band from Kilsyth, Scotland formed in late 2003. The band is composed of James Alexander Graham (vocals), Andy MacFarlane (guitar), Craig Orzel (bass) and Mark Devine (drums). They have released two full-length albums: Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters (2007) and Forget The Night Ahead (2009). Where their debut album mixed post-rock and post-punk with heavily delayed shoegaze guitars and folk elements, their second album is more influenced by early krautrock.
The band started up by playing a couple of gigs at the 13th Note in Glasgow, creating half hour-long pieces of music using guitars, bass, drums, theremin, tape loops from films and old folk/country songs, effects pedals, toy keyboards, thumb pianos, saws, computer games, and a lot of noise, in an attempt to try and discover a sound they could call their own and continue to develop. After these two shows, they rejected many gig offers, and became a more reclusive unit, spending any spare time they had in the studio focused on writing and sculpting away at new material.
In September 2005, they produced a 4-song demo with a 24-track desk, trying to get the best representation as possible, sent it over to Brighton-based Fat Cat Records. Alex Knight, co-founder of the label, went to Glasgow to watch the band perform their third gig and signed them on the spot. In November 2006, they made their first official release with The Twilight Sad, a US-only EP that helped bring attention to the band, as well as performances at CMJ ‘06 and SXSW ‘07 Festivals.
The band started up by playing a couple of gigs at the 13th Note in Glasgow, creating half hour-long pieces of music using guitars, bass, drums, theremin, tape loops from films and old folk/country songs, effects pedals, toy keyboards, thumb pianos, saws, computer games, and a lot of noise, in an attempt to try and discover a sound they could call their own and continue to develop. After these two shows, they rejected many gig offers, and became a more reclusive unit, spending any spare time they had in the studio focused on writing and sculpting away at new material.
In September 2005, they produced a 4-song demo with a 24-track desk, trying to get the best representation as possible, sent it over to Brighton-based Fat Cat Records. Alex Knight, co-founder of the label, went to Glasgow to watch the band perform their third gig and signed them on the spot. In November 2006, they made their first official release with The Twilight Sad, a US-only EP that helped bring attention to the band, as well as performances at CMJ ‘06 and SXSW ‘07 Festivals.
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Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters
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Killed My Parents And Hit The Road
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Here, It Never Snowed. Afterwards It Did
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Walking for Two Hours
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And She Would Darken the Memory
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Mapped by What Surrounded Them
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Last Year's Rain Didn't Fall Quite So Hard
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Shoutbox
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BWalshy wrote:
hope the bastards who robbed them get what they deserve.
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zacvann wrote:
saw these guys when they came to alabama w/ frightened rabbit & we were promised jetpacks. accents aside, theyre good. the show was awesome. wish i had offered to share my reefer. dunno if they even smoke...
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fresagrus wrote:
So sad to see they were robbed, it thought that these things wouldn't happen in Europe.
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sirjelind wrote:
The Twilight Sad Forget The Night Ahead (Fatcat Records/Inertia). A post from: Cyclic Defrost Magazine: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cyclicdefrost/~3/C8PFHbRbiMM/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email
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under_the_radar wrote:
Win tickets to see The Twilight Sad in Edinburgh... http://www.scotsman.com/CustomPages/CustomPage.aspx?PageID=81045
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RAngelgrinder wrote:
@Pecusita: Indeed. He's a great singer, and the music is more than amazing as well. The accent is just the extra touch to make it all not only really really good, but fucking brilliant.
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tixe wrote:
THIS SUCKS! http://tinyurl.com/yzj37sx
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pecusita wrote:
@Schayzelden, I don't think so. When they came out people noted that a lot because no one was doing it after Arab Strap folded, but now every band out of Scotland sings with an accent and still none of them has a singer quite like James, eh? By the way, Forget The Night Ahead is on NME's Album of the Decade list. At number 86. o_O
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Schayzelden wrote:
If they didn't sing in a regional accent, which people see as interesting and 'kooky', no one would care. Which is sad.
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tsdavis wrote:
Their session on Noisevox premieres tomorrow. noisevox.org In the meantime, peep the session with We Were Promised Jetpacks and Japandriods. Both are pretty awesome. It's good to see John Norris interviewing good bands.
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pariisertoast wrote:
Well bought their debut cd just today, and so far so good.
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pecusita wrote:
Good news and bad news. Bad news: the band was robbed somewhere between Italy and Germany yesterday. It's on their MySpace :( Good news: James said in an interview that they had recorded acoustic versions of all the songs on FTNA and may give them away... will have to wait and see. :)
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RAngelgrinder wrote:
Listen to their other songs and you'll find something that is so much better than Radiohead ;)
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pariisertoast wrote:
Listening to their cover of Radiohead's Climbing Up the Walls, and fuck me is that accent brilliant!
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DDDiego wrote:
This band is amazing.
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RAngelgrinder wrote:
Their latest myspace blogpost, wtf?
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pecusita wrote:
Excellent acoustic session for Laundro Matinee http://www.laundromatinee.com/sessions/video_session__the_twilight_sad (And She Would Darken The Memory + I Became A Prostitute) Includes MP3s of both songs to download! Been listening a lot to those. Great session. :)
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RAngelgrinder wrote:
Looks like I wont be making it to tomorrow's gig in Copenhagen, which is a fucking shame. I was really looking forward to seeing them again. Though I suppose they'll come back here fairly soon. And I wouldn't have been able to see the whole gig either since I would have to catch the last train home.
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franzikatz wrote:
they have a little something of the ediors which is great because they began to suck a lot since their new album. : )
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pecusita wrote:
@plotsligt, all those bands up there sing with scottish accent. In fact, that's the only thing they have in common with this band. Except for There Will Be Fireworks. They sound a bit like Twilight Sad. Everyone, be sure to check out this BBC acoustic session at Peenko's blog. They played 7 Years of Letters and The Room. Had never heard 7YoL acoustic. Sounded very good.
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Events
- Nov 21 The Twilight Sad Botanique, Brussels, Belgium
- Nov 23 The Twilight Sad Basement, City Screen, York, United Kingdom
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Dec
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The Twilight Sad
Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Dec
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The Twilight Sad
Nice n' Sleazy, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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News
a song to orzel, by andy
7 Nov 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/thetwilightsad
Ground control to OrzelGround control to Orzel Take your heed nip pills and get your helmet out (Ten) Ground control (Nine) to Orzel (Eight) (Seven, six) Commencing countdown (Five), engines on (Four. …
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17 Jul 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/thetwilightsad
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