Hey - I'm a newbie on these boards, but a Bellowhead fan of 18 months. Just got the new CD here as well - it's utterly fantastic, and well worth the wait. So great to be able to hear each number in detail at last and dwell over the intricacies of playing and arrangements (when I'm not dancing manically round the bedroom, that is...).
Congratulations and thanks to one and all - a superb achievement, which deserves to be a big success!
I got mine today also, a bit earlier than I expected.
I had a listen to it on the kitchen CD player when I got home from work and wasn't too sure about it. I've now had the chance to listen to it properley (and wind up the volume a bit) and I have to say I'm very impressed and can't wait to see where their tour takes them (East Anglia hopefully).
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(Date Posted:15/09/2006 1:23 AM)
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Wooh! wasn't expecting it till Monday but it arrived this morning and what a fantastic start to the weekend! my other half and I have had it on full blast all evening (great not having neighbours) and are dancing round the living room like the drunken idiots we are
particularly happy to finally have a recording of rigs of the time, always my favourite bit of the live shows!
thanks so much boys and rachael - haven't been this excited about an album since I was a teenager!
I have it! I wasn't prepared to wait until I got back from hols so I had it pre-ordered and sent through to my best friend's place, where it's now on its second listen-through. (Very tiresome--her flat has horribly thin walls so I can't blast it out at full volume and cavort round the living room the way I'd like to.)
At the moment I'm still feeling the love, so to speak, so enlightened commentary will have to wait until later. I'm particularly taken with Hopkinson's Favorite, Rigs of the Times, Jordan and of course Fire Marengo. Unfortunately, Courting Too Slow is as much of a yawn as it was on Bellow. Oh, and I'm in love with Outlandish Knight all over again , and best mate kept having to slap my hand away from the volume control on that one, because otherwise I would have woken up the entire building.
Fortunately best mate heard Bellowhead at WOMAD with me, and is very taken with Jon, so she doesn't object to her abode being taken over by Bellowhead. This is just as well--she's got a week of Bellowhead monopolising her CD player.
