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It's Friday! It's about three o'clock! It's time to Boogie At Your Desk!

Friday afternoons need a little something. I think they need a Top Tune. Something to make you shuffle in your seat and, if possible, Boogie At Your Desk.

I'm not claiming that any track provided to enable At-Desk Boogying is one of the world's best or most profound pieces of music. It will, however, be a tune which makes me smile, and which has at some stage made me surreptitiously Boogie At My Desk.

Desks are not compulsory, of course. Feel free to boogie through your office, in your bedroom, round your lab, across your classroom, on the train - wherever you find yourself on a Friday afternoon.

If you like the track, go out and buy the album it belongs to - I'll try and recommend a suitable CD to purchase for any BAYD track.

The link to the mp3 will expire at some point in the future.

Today you are invited to Boogie At Your Desk to:

Pete and the Pirates - Motorbike [mp3 download, or listen to it on YouTube]

I have a rule - or at least a guideline - for checking out new bands. If you tell me about a band, and say they're good, I'll check them out. But as well as that, I'll investigate any band that I hear about in passing from three separate and at least vaguely-reputable sources.

I think I first heard (or, more probably, read) [livejournal.com profile] satyrica talking about Pete and the Pirates. And then someone else (maybe [livejournal.com profile] zenithed?). And then Andy von Pip[*] and I thought right, better go and investigate.

Disappointingly, I did it just in time to find that they'd released the excellent One Thousand Pictures and then promptly split up. So I was a bit late to that party.

However, One Thousand Pictures is jolly excellent. It's poppy, but also melancholy and a bit guitary and a bit dark and all-round very listenable. There isn't really a stand-out boogyfest, but there are a few good contenders of which Motorbike is just one. Others are Half Moon Street and Come To The Bar, if you fancy some further listening.

[*] Occasionally, people accuse me of being well-informed about new bands. I realise you're not supposed to show people how the magic works, but actually, I'm not particularly well-informed. I just read The Von Pip Musical Express.

Date: 2013-04-12 02:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] huskyteer.livejournal.com
Obviously I was attracted by the title - that was nice, though! Made me think of a less miserable and pretentious Cure. (Not that there's anything wrong with miserable and pretentious.)

Date: 2013-04-12 02:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
I did wonder if you'd be the person to comment about a track called Motorbike :)

I think they're a bit too light and breezy to be like the Cure, but I see what you mean.

Date: 2013-04-12 02:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] phlebas.livejournal.com
Ooh, I like! Wish I could work out what it reminds me of, though.

Date: 2013-04-12 02:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
Hurrah!

I think they're one of those bands that has that sort of "instant familiarity" thing where you're sure it reminds you of something.

Date: 2013-04-13 09:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] satyrica.livejournal.com
ah, I hadn't realised they'd definitely split up but I was deeply suspicious, having not heard anything about them for a while :-(

Date: 2013-04-15 11:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
75% of them are rejuvenated as Teleman - the one single of theirs I've heard (http://snd.sc/10F3NSF) seems a bit different, but decent.

Date: 2013-04-16 07:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] satyrica.livejournal.com
ooh yes, vocally still distinctively the same but musically a bit less jangly; I notice they're playing the Lexington in June though . . .

Date: 2013-04-22 01:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zenithed.livejournal.com
Nope, wasn't me. Did see them crop up on a lot of line-ups though and had been meaning to check them out. Them splitting up would explain why I've not seen them lately.

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