Striking

1 Oct

I apologise profusely for the insanely fan-ish warble that will follow. The plain fact is though: I (please affix appropriate enthusiastic formatting to the following word, expletive prefix also acceptable) love Strike The Colours. In fact, talking about Strike The Colours is a very favourite past time of mine.

This phenomenon began when a Miss Jenny Reeve started producing music with first band Eva. It continued on through the period where a reshuffle brought a group adorning the moniker Reeve. I still cherish the sleeveless CD-R demo, which is either nameless or entitled September Sessions, attained by pleading with a flatmate of that epoch* who was interning with Reeve’s management. On said taster there features an early version of Bare Legs In A Storm. This would later be resurrected on Strike The Colours’ delightful 2007 debut mini-album, The Face That Sunk A Thousand Ships. Unfortunately, a song that has yet to be revisited is 366. 366 is a track that features a guitar riff, vocal howl and what I can only describe as a spy-movie-theme rhythm element which, when combined, makes me drool.

Reeve Demo

If you require reason beyond the fact that Strike The Colours write the most enchanting music and weave tales that none but the pure voice of Jenny Reeve could deliver to join me in my ode then that is not hard to provide. This band present the most impressive list of affiliated bands, persons and releases hailing from Scotland including; Arab Strap, Idlewild, Terra Diablo, The Reindeer Section and Alasdair Roberts. The list does go on but I feel that should be enough to convince you to listen to, love and head along to one of STC’s live shows this weekend. They round up their UK tour supporting Zoey Van Goey with the following dates:

2nd October – Stereo Glasgow
3rd October – Snafu Aberdeen
4th October – Hootananny’s Inverness

GOGOGO!

Seven Roads, Strike The Colours’ second album, was released on Monday 28th September. The album will be available direct from the band at their shows and through their official online shoppy-shop.

*circa 2003