Tuesday 28 May 2013

Not that union...



So another Mo Fest (Montrose Music Festival) gone by here. Another weekend of sunshine and toons, toons, toons. Last year I wrote about how Montrose was (kind of) like New Orleans... this year... less writing but a song about another bit of the U.S. (above) from a band I saw on Sunday night in a local pub (one of the band, Brooks Williams, is a Georgian...). The band is State of the Union (nothing to do with Alex Salmond...) and I'd seen them before but it was an especially enjoyable night this time. Something about the weather, the blur of the busy weekend, the just being in the backroom ('lounge') of a pub in what some people might call the middle of nowhere (though I wouldn't obviously... any place can be cool, any place can be crap...) listening to such great music. I mean, there was a chalk board in front of the band saying 'food available in car park'... and there's something about that kind of detail. Maybe I'll even form a band now called 'food available in car park'... No. I won't. 
 
Anyway, things to do, offline to be. State of the Union are touring just now by the way and they have a new, second, album called "Snake Oil" (which I listened to three times yesterday like a teenager). Details on their website. And yes, this blog is just turning into a random series of songs. Again.

8 comments:

Titus said...

Aaargh! The opening reminds me so much of something, but I can't think what, unless it's 'Has anybody seen my girl.' Need Mr T on the job.

I love lazy weekends when time disappears. I can just about remember them...

Rachel Fox said...

I'm not sure h would describe the weekend as lazy... her idea of that is being allowed to watch non-stop Big Bang Theory and Glee... not being dragged around local hostelries in the name of 'musical education'! Saying that she was at home Sunday night with M (we took turns... he went out Sat night).

Sunday night was lazy though - lazy and lovely!

x

Titus said...

At the moment, the boys's idea of lazy = playing on tablets. I, of course, am constantly leading them on self-impoving interactive projects (let's make a soft toy! let's build a scale-model of a suspension bridge!), whilst they sigh and raise their eyes to the ceiling.

Have to add, so does Mr T.

Rachel Fox said...

Tablets... I still can't get used to the word in that context! h doesn't have one, isn't very interested in such things as yet (and yet I hear some toddlers have them these days!). Here it's still books and dvds... and then more books and more dvds... and the odd cd.
x

hope said...

Amen to books...and to friends who are good parents teaching their own that the world doesn't really live in a small box, be it t.v. or a tablet. :)

Rachel Fox said...

Not sure I can take any credit...
x

Dick said...

Great, this. Off to Amazon!

The Bug said...

Well I thoroughly enjoyed that! I'll have to check them out...