The Video - Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells "(If You) Keep Me In Your Heart"

Keep me in your bathroom. Keep me hanging all stretched out and dripping next to you. 

A sublime vintagetastic vid for the fine lead single from Falkirk's finest Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat's wonderful 2011 album "Everything's Getting Older." Released last Valentines Day, no less!

A song of love indeed, but since it's Moffat's, a very weird and twisted one! A song of bleak lost love for a gal long gone, a gal who haunts the singer's dreams, the gal he still stalks. A song of love coming perhaps from an angry dishevelled tattooed laddie sat pished in a tawdry, dirty back street Glasgae boozer at three o'clock on a Tuesday afternoon. 

The dark troubled lyrics are beautifully counterpointed by Wells' wonderful instrumental embellishments. Gotta love that bossa nova beat, that delicate, ivory tinkling, that cello rumble and that beautiful horn!

'(If You) Keep Me In Your Heart' was the first fruits of Bill and Aidan's collaboration, the initial recordings taking place back in 2003 and features Belle And Sebastian's Stevie Jackson on guitar and ex-Belle alumni Isobell Campbell on cello.

Another typically unique vinyl release from Moffat, the 7" came sealed in a specially designed envelope and includes a Valentine's card from Bill and Aidan, with the lyrics to the song printed inside.

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The Song - Aidan Moffat and Bill Wells' "Glasgow Jubilee"

 

'We could all be dead tomorrow' says the whore to the hero. ’For handsome squaddies like yourself, my fee’s reduced to zero. I can be your pin-up girl, your bargain Playboy bunny’. So they do it by the river and then she asks ‘Where’s my fuckin’ money?!’”

Winning the "Odd Couple Of The Year" award, it's Falkirk's finest - former Arab Strap frontman and Prince of Bleakdom Aidan Moffat collaborated with fellow Falkirkian (is that a word?), renowned jazz ivory tinkler Bill Wells - from the acclaimed album Everything's Getting Older released earlier this year.

Mojo - the mag for, erm, somewhat ageing music fanatics - placed Everything's Getting Older at number 17 on its list of "Top 50 albums of 2011" so, by definition, it has to be f*cking amazing!

From said collection, in a visit to the Guardian's studios, here the wee laddies perform a restrained, acoustic version of the acerbic Glasgow Jubilee.

Inspired by a raunchy and controversial Victorian play, the beautifully bleak Glasgow Jubilee reimagines a Scottish roundelay dance as a naughty partner-swapping trawl through contemporary Glasgow.

Like any night out in Glasga', the song's all about menace, lying whores, alcohol and f*cking multiple partners!

As befits the baudy theme of the song (and indeed as is the case in any song Moffat's ever rendered!) some of the language here is rather fruity! The song's a peek into a murky world where charming pre-lovemaking words to a heroic "handsome squaddie" from a buxom gal called Marie are soon replaced once the act is consummated by the rather less erotic scream "Where’s my fuckin’ money?"!

One with the most wonderful opening couplet ... 'We could all be dead tomorrow' says the whore to the hero." Something that's perhaps a piss take on Dylan's slightly better known Watchtower opener ... "'There must be some way out of here' said the joker to the thief"!

Yap, what a mischevious, vivid, poetic, humorous and Bukowski-esque (is that a word?!) piece of vérité this surely is!

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Art of the Cover - Aidan Moffat and Bill Wells' "Everything's Getting Older" (2011)

 

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Mogwai - Young Team (1997)

Mogwai - Young Team
Released 21 October 1997
Recorded MCM Studios, Hamilton, Scotland
Genre Post-rock, instrumental rock
Length 64:31
Label Chemikal Underground, Jetset
Producer Paul Savage, Andy Miller

Mogwai Young Team was recorded in Summer 1997 at MCM Studios (now known as Chem19 Studios) in Hamilton, Scotland, and was produced by Paul Savage and Andy Miller.

The album features extreme dynamic contrast between quiet and loud, a technique which Mogwai are well known for. It is largely instrumental, with one notable exception ("R U Still in 2 It"). It features limited instrumentation, consisting mainly of guitar, bass and drums, although other instruments can sometimes be heard throughout the album, such as glockenspiel ("Tracy"), piano ("Radar Maker", "With Portfolio", "A Cheery Wave from Stranded Youngsters") and flute ("Mogwai Fear Satan").

When questioned about his opinion on Mogwai Young Team, Mogwai guitarist Stuart Braithwaite said:

“ The album was a total disaster. We were young and naïve and had too little time. We should have said; "No, the record isn't done until six months later." Instead, we sat and mixed whole nights and felt bad. We didn't talk to each other. When the album was released, we just wanted to forget everything. We were certain that all critics would pan it, honestly. After that, we understood that we had think stuff over that we recorded.”

Mogwai drummer Martin Bulloch has also given his thoughts on the album:

“ The recording of Young Team was fucked up. There were quite a lot of sketches going on. I think the whole of the first LP is angry. It was the mood of the whole thing - there was a lot of anger about.”

The LP also features a track written by the boy from the Arab Strap, Falkirk's own Aidan Moffat!

Despite the members of Mogwai's negative opinions about the album, Mogwai Young Team was listed as #97 on Pitchfork Media's Top 100 Albums of the 1990s, and is considered their best by many listeners, including Kele Okereke of Bloc Party, who cited Mogwai Young Team as the record that changed his life.

Tracklisting

1. "Yes! I Am a Long Way from Home" – 5:57
2. "Like Herod" – 11:41
3. "Katrien" – 5:24
4. "Radar Maker" – 1:35
5. "Tracy" – 7:19
6. "Summer" (Priority version) – 3:28
7. "With Portfolio" – 3:10
8. "R U Still in 2 It" – 7:20
9. "A Cheery Wave from Stranded Youngsters" – 2:18
10. "Mogwai Fear Satan" – 16:19

All tracks written by Stuart Braithwaite, Dominic Aitchison, Martin Bulloch, and John Cummings, except "R U Still in 2 It?", lyrics by Aidan Moffat.

Here be the Mogs

Mogwai - Young Team

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Aidan John Moffat: I Can Hear Your Heart

Aidan John Moffat: I Can Hear Your Heart

A concept album of sorts from the former Arab Strap man.

Aidan Moffat is a man of many identities. Together with Malcolm Middleton, he formed the post-folk indie band Arab Strap until the end of 2006.

From 2005 on, Moffat has also recorded a few solo albums as L. Pierre (Lucky Pierre); using his own full name, Aidan John Moffat, he will soon publish I Can Hear Your Heart, an extraordinary project that is part book, part album.

Last but not least is Aidan Moffat & The Best-Ofs, bringing band members Stephen Jones and Stewart Henderson (ex-Delgados) to Crossing Border.

Tracklisting

01] intra and instructions 00:50
02] atmos 00:50
03] cunts 01:02
04] nothing in common 00:53
05] hopelessly devoted 00:29
06] super sexxxy real live 01:13
07] party at your boyfriends 01:01
08] monday. fantasy time 00:37
09] 4sex message 1 00:19
10] fuck it 01:06
11] good morning 01:50
12] all the love you need 00:53
13] you took well 01:20
14] international valentine 01:23
15] 4sex message 2 00:07
16] im not bitter 01:26
17] the boy that you love 01:53
18] a very short song 01:00
19] double justice 01:35
20] i will walk 01:57
21] beak 01:13
22] hungry heart 01:47
23] view from the kitchen 01:31
24] hilary and back 10:20

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