Another thanks you is in order for Adam Walton, he played 'Sons Of Daughters' on his BBC Radio Wales show on Sunday. You can check out the rest of the playlist here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/walesmusic/2011/03/adam-walton-playlist-show-13-march-2011.shtml
Motown Junk! Hell yeah.
'Sons Of Daughters' is a weird one for me. I was listening to a lot of The Maccabees around the time i wrote it, hence the STOP/start/STOP verses and the 'indie' centric drumming. I'm really proud of the lyric, especially the chorus, but i can't help but feel that the song sticks out as too much of a black sheep when taken in the context of the eight other tracks that appeared on 'Before The Roars'. I feel that it fares a lot better on 'The First Two Years' which itself is a real mixed bag of sounds, some hitting the mark and others not so much.
I reckon we haven't played 'Sons Of Daughters' live for the better part of a year, since before Kai left the band, as i remember always ragging on him for playing it wrong and always missing his vocal. In hindsight, Sons is a hard song to sing and play, even on guitar, so maybe i could have cut him a bit more slack back then.
I don't know whether or not we'll eventually re-learn it with the new line-up. We get asked for it quite a bit actually, Tal from the Goodtime Boys always asks for it, and i know its Jon Slowdance/Hidden Switch favourite song from 'Before The Roars'. To be honest i'm more focused on writing new songs at the moment, but maybe it'd be cool to dig deep and brush off a 'golden oldie', even if it isn't a personal favourite of mine.
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