Posts Tagged The Blue Nile
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December 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 194
The Big Dish, Prospect Street [Single] (1986) I know nothing about The Big Dish – apart from what I’ve just googled – and this single and b-side, which I’ve just listened to for the first time. Scottish band. And I can hear that instantly and line them up somewhere between Simple Minds and The Blue […]Archive
February 15, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Hearing The Last Album First: How I Arrived At The Blue Nile’s High
The first album by The Blue Nile that I really engaged with – got really hooked on – was the band’s (at this stage) last. High. I love that album. I really dig A Walk Across The Rooftops (see here for my Vinyl Countdown story about that – even though it’s really about High also) […]Archive
October 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
When It’s About More Than Just The Music: Remembering Interviewing Paul Buchanan
Sometimes, with music, part of the magic, the connection, is in the memory. And part of the memory is in the things that were happening around the music. I had loved the music of The Blue Nile since I first heard it. And the band’s last album, High, is the one that means the most […]Archive
February 15, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Craig Armstrong: It’s Nearly Tomorrow
Craig Armstrong It’s Nearly Tomorrow BMG Across the 90s and early 2000s Craig Armstrong’s music was everywhere, those hypnotic, enchanting arrangements that helped to frame the majesty of Massive Attack’s finest works, the symphonic sweep meeting up with trip-hop to create those alluring movie soundtrack moments, there were a couple of production albums outside of […]Archive
February 9, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Majical Cloudz: Impersonator
Majical Cloudz Impersonator Matador It’s a wide-open sound for Majical Cloudz on Impersonator, where the duo goes from here is anyone’s guess but there’s a lovely – stately – feel to the songs on this their sophomore full-lengther, This Is Magic feeling like a torch song, but free of the faux spirit that the James […]Archive
July 10, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
The Blue Nile: Hats (Reissue)
The Blue Nile Hats (Reissue) EMI I’ve fallen for Hats, the second Blue Nile Album, just recently in fact. Good timing given the new 2CD reissue. Before that it was all about A Walk Across The Rooftops (also reissued recently) and High (the one so many forgot about because, ultimately, Peace At Last was a […]Archive
November 2, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1502
Paul Buchanan, Mid Air (2012) I spoke about the title song when I was interviewed by Kim Hill recently for Playing Favourites. It feels like a song that’s always existed – one that Buchanan plucked down, hanging on to it for just long enough. A butterfly he cradled in his hands then released to the world […]Archive
June 23, 2011 by Simon Sweetman