Slow Thrills

What I'm Listening To: The Make-Up

Why was I listening to them today: Another band i revisited whilst rebuilding iTunes, I haven't listened to them in ages.

What tracks did I listen to: ALL of Destination Love: Live! at Cold Rice. I was amazed this is ten years old now! One of the best live albums I own, packaged and performed like it's a Live at the Apollo from the 60s, and it contains some of their very best material. Useless trivai: The MC that announces the band is Dale Shaw who was in the never-popular Wiiija act Blood Sausage.

First encountered: John Peel show 1996 I think, whenever he was on Saturday afternoons anyway, and a few of us listening in the living room, perhaps the worse for wear, convinced he was playing Can. Not a band the Make-up are often compared but I can still kinda see it (!)

First (and only) live encounter: the cramped and very intimate surroundings of the Duke of York downstairs bar in Belfast, May 1997, an astonishing show and my favourite of that year. My mate Iain interviewed them that day and the chat is here.