Everybody loves Walter. Or rather, everyone did, until he started to morph into Paul McCartney. And today's slice of nerd pie comes from one of his previous bands, Walking Concert. This band was active circa 2004/5 I think. I can't remember exactly and I can't be arsed to look it up. Anyway, the band followed Rival Schools and featured Walter and three other dudes, one of whom was Drew Thomas of Into Another and some other crappy straight edge bands. I saw them play a couple of times back in 2005 or so, and was lucky(!) enough to meet the fools and hang out with them a little in a gothic bar in Nottingham. In case you never heard them, they are/were probably Walter's least hardcore sounding band, but they had some good tunes none the less. Crucially though, only thing that they didn't have was any songs on vinyl. The album was CD only. Until now...
For some reason, 5 years or so after the band broke up, Arctic Rodeo Records have decided to finally give these songs the vinyl treatment. However, the only thing I'm not so into is that they also decided to give it new artwork. I don't have a problem with albums being released with new artwork, but the thing that seems slightly unfair to me is that the artwork now seems to suggest that Walking Concert was pretty much just Walter. The new artwork just features a couple of photos of him farting about on a beach. I'm not into it. But hey, at least they still kept the same band logo.
As you would expect in 2011, there were 400 different vinyl colours to choose from. I snagged one of the red vinyl copies of which there were only 100:
As well as the album you get some other rubbish like a 7" and a CD. Although, I have to say, even though I hate CDs and always did, this one is kinda cool, because it has been made to look like a record.
I went to see this dude play in London a couple of weeks ago. He was touring with a band, which included Arthur Smilios (Gorilla Biscuits, Civ) and Drew Thomas (Into Another & some other crap), and more interestingly, some dude called Dave Hill who appears to be some kind of comedian from NYC (god only knows how he got in the band, but he has a cheeky face which I found amusing which you can see HERE if you are curious). Anyway, as usual I filmed a song as a momento. This one is a cover of the Civ classic 'Don't Gotta Prove It'. Hey, it's not a Walking Concert, but nevermind. You'll still not enjoy it.
6 comments:
had no idea this was released on vinyl. i'm tempted to purchase it, but being fond of only three songs on the album, i probably won't. the original artwork was ok, but the new layout is kinda bad. btw, that CD to look like vinyl idea was done for a Morrissey CD some years ago and i have blank CDrs that look like mini records as well. it's a nifty look to say the least.
Wow, that sounded painfully bad.
You gave "An open letter to the scene" a rave review, now you you're making fun of the lame singer/songwriter stuff he's doing. What's up with that?
Either way, just for the sake of completeness: Terror's One with the underdogs CD was available as a limited edition that also looked like a vinyl record. It even had a tangible "groove" printed on it.
Sorry? Where did you get that i'm 'making fun' of his music?
love this record.
it blows...
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