Episode #4.2: Slow Club - "Christmas TV"

Our second Homegame session comes from Slow Club, Moshi Moshi signings and nicest-people-ever. Charles and Rebecca braved the icy Fife winds to record two songs for us at the end of the pier in Anstruther, and didn't complain once.

Slow Club seem to unfairly suffer from identity confusion. Many people we spoke to wondered why they would be playing Homegame, having put the Moshi Moshi signing and appearances together and assumed they're hipster indie kids. Others see the acoustic guitar and the lack of other band members and peg them as folkies. The truth is they have a little of both, but lots of neither. A bit folky, a bit indie, a fair bit rockabilly, the songs are pretty, joyful ditties with plenty of heartache and a little wide-eyed naivety.

The second track is "Christmas TV", a Christmas single with a difference: it's good, and doesn't sound Christmasy. With lines like "Its okay that I pray you will miss your flight and stay with me another night" it focuses on the extra emotional strain that the festive season brings. If you've ever been alone at Christmas, it's guaranteed to break your heart.

See more at http://offthebeatentracks.tv

More about Slow Club at http://myspace.com/slowclub

Category:

Music

Tags:

• live
• music
• anstruther
• homegame
• slow club

[tonnhard]

great song , how many of you heard them on Chuck/

[dariolavigne]

heard it on chuck 2x22...awesome

[GeddyLeesberg]

Well, this is neat: One of my favourite songs played in front of one of my favourite places to get fish and chips.

[Sockswithoutmatches]

This is currently my favorite song, I discovered it when I put my iPhone on shuffle on the way home from work one day. How I didn't know it was there, I still have no idea!

[southrules]

Get the hell to America kids!

[rakshawestlife]

So, so lovely.

[VersioneAcustica]

Me too...a real masterpiece!

[enes315]

Great song ..awesome i like it 

[amodelqueso]

@showburner For awhile now I've thought of you guys as your own sorta thing, but the style of video directing and way the videos were edited has moved towards looking like them more. I mean no offense by this, I just wish you guys did it more like the first 3.

[showburner]

@amodelqueso Hello, I co-run Off The Beaten Tracks, and I can confirm we are, in fact, a bad ripoff of the awesomely good Blogotheque. Still not sure of your point though? Thx.

[amodelqueso]

Love the band and song, but dear god this off the beaten tracks thing really is looking like a bad ripoff of La Blogotheque Take Away shows.

[a2ilool]

Is that Whitby?