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The Twilight Sad

BBC Introducing

Live at T in the Park 2009

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Formed in late 2003, The Twilight Sad comprises James Graham (vocals), Andy MacFarlane, (guitar/accordion/noise), Craig Orzel (bass), and Mark Devine (drums). The band began by playing some half-hour pieces of music utilising tape loops, effects pedals, toy keyboards, thumb pianos, computer games and various other ephemera at Glasgow's 13th Note. They subsequently withdrew to the studio to refine their sound into something slightly more traditional, rejecting live show offers and morphing into an adventurous and emotive outfit.

Their debut album, Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters, recalled white-noise era Creation Records and drew from fellow Scots Arab Strap and Mogwai. Augmented by piano and accordion, the songs have a dramatic swoon, the band purveying an awestruck, ragged sentimentality in which deceptively simple songs are rendered magnificent and transcendent. But where the band's studio sound is intricately layered with delicate melodies, their live sound is a more intense 'wall of noise' experience.

With a new album already in the can and a tour with Mogwai lined-up, 2009 is looking like another busy year for The Twilight Sad.

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John S
brilliant set pity it was not longer

Soapy
Awesome performance keep kicking buts guys

Jamie Love
Music reminiscent of the Sound to the Chameleons - but the vocals make your heart stop!

Polly
wow, when did he shave his head??

Ryan
Not Available in my area?! I don't live in space!

BG
FANTASITC SET THESE GUYS ARE GREAT! AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON A BIGGER STAGE

higgy
always great live. Hope to see you on a bigger stage next year

Joe Roszkowski, Dundee
This is what T is all about! THIS is what should be shown on TV. Never mind the constant repetition of overblown well enough known artists. The relatively unknown artists deserve the twighlight. The Twilight and Mogwai - John Peel would approve

RB
Superb band, looking forward to the album x

november mourning
how they were not further up the bill or on a bigger stage i will never know.. love them.

Eddie
A young band Scotland can be proud of.

Mary
The new stuff sounded so excellent live, can't wait to hear the album!

Tony Mulryan
Nice footage! Wish I could have been there

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