Stornoway
Zorbing – Stornoway
From Letters From Lewis EP: Hatpop/Independent [iTunes]
Last weekend’s Arcane Festival at Tetsworth was a lucky opportunity to hear a live performance by Stornoway, surely one of the most interesting bands currently working in Oxford. Their deceptively simple, pentatonic-based melodies are filtered through folk-rock and various bits of electronics with trumpets, violins and banjos.
Smart lyrics hide a few coy winks to their home town – the title of the song posted above refers to “zorbing through the streets of Cowley” – and one suspects that the river that runs through the centre of their song On the Rocks might just be the Cherwell or Isis as they wend their slow way towards the English Channel.
You can hear a lot more on their myspace page, and see more photos in their Flickr group.
Photo by Platform3
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Etno, Man you are a legend for keeping going so long !! Well done Bro!!! I’m Blogging {yet again!} not a musical blog , least at the moment, just general stuff with occasional grim reference to my being back on dialysis. Still love what you do here even if you don’t know what its about either !!! My new blog is called ‘Bo Diddley’s Dead’ !! Speak soon, IanB
Hi Ian! Great to hear from you again. Life can’t be too bad if IanB’s back online in written form. I’ve blogrolled ya. Keep safe and take care.
Richard
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