On the Puzzle tour we took a string quartet out on tour with us. To me, from that point, its sound of guitars being removed, subsequently thrown, microphones being removed from mic-stands, and band members launching themselves from the stage into the audience. I can no longer listen to it without flinching the cautious flinch of a tour manager, around the 5:30’ mark. It’s one of the most beautiful things they’ve ever recorded, as well as one of the most intense and furious. This song, the final track on their second, is the calm, and the storm.
I think at this point, they’ve paddled in the shallow end of pretty much every available music swimming pool, and have dived off the high deck into whichever pools they found to be the right temperature. NOW THE ACTION IS ON FIRE (The Vertigo Of Bliss, 2003) This is another one of those songs that couldn’t be any other band. Whilst I make no interpretation as to what Si is singing about, there are words and lyrics in this song that hit me then, and continue to hit me now, like an emotional sledgehammer. None of that hit me, until around halfway through this song. It was to be, and is, the longest break from performing live, the band have had since they began touring.
It was the last stop on the Opposites tour cycle, and we knew that we would be taking a break for a considerable while, at least a year off. The show in question was our last night at the venue, the final show of the year. Midway through, Simon performed an acoustic version of the song, and it pretty much ruined my night, albeit in the best way possible. I adore the recorded version of this song, however its inclusion here is very much due to its one and only live performance, at the Glasgow Barrowland in December 2014.
BREAK A BUTTERFLY ON A WHEEL (Similarities, 2014) I have to be a little cheeky here.
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