Those Primed for the Glitz,
The best of those who weren’t saving themselves for a big 2008 and bothered to spit out an album gathered in the Rennie Suite of East End Park stadium, Dunfermline for The Bellyaches Music Prize 2007 awards ceremony hosted once again by the legendary Bryan Burnett.
The standard this year was very poor and the 12 nomin
ees faced little competitions. The albums in contention for the award, a £5 book token (redeemable at WH Smith before September 30) are as follows:
Year of the Leopard by James Yorkston: Every track is endearing and beautifully composed. The Fencemeister and Domino man deserved wider recognition for this inventive album that was more than “just a folk album”. Its inaugural airing of BBC 6th Music was ruined by the hourly burp.
Octopus by The Bees: Many artists lined up this year to record something new that felt old. The Bees managed to achieve that special vibe as Candie Payne and Amy Winehouse failed miserably whilst making more money.
The Magic Position by Patrick Wolf: Pop can have some wonderful orchestration as Patrick demonstrates. He changed his style for several songs in order to capture a new audience; it caught the ear of the judges.
Voices of Animals and Men by The Young Knives: The Young Knives say more about society than many others, they highlight foibles over and over again in the way the vastly over-rated Kaiser Chiefs manage to do only 5% of the time.
No Shouts No Calls by Electrelane: An excellent motivator of an album, it has a great beat and top keyboards. Vocals like this are so rare since the C86 era. This band should have been allowed the chance to prevent “new rave”.
The End of History by Fionn Regan: Bella Union goodness is mandatory and these songs are lovely.
Make Another World by Idlewild: Roddy Woomble is a marvellous lyricist and this album sounds a bit angry.
The standard this year was very poor and the 12 nomin
ees faced little competitions. The albums in contention for the award, a £5 book token (redeemable at WH Smith before September 30) are as follows:Year of the Leopard by James Yorkston: Every track is endearing and beautifully composed. The Fencemeister and Domino man deserved wider recognition for this inventive album that was more than “just a folk album”. Its inaugural airing of BBC 6th Music was ruined by the hourly burp.
Octopus by The Bees: Many artists lined up this year to record something new that felt old. The Bees managed to achieve that special vibe as Candie Payne and Amy Winehouse failed miserably whilst making more money.
The Magic Position by Patrick Wolf: Pop can have some wonderful orchestration as Patrick demonstrates. He changed his style for several songs in order to capture a new audience; it caught the ear of the judges.
Voices of Animals and Men by The Young Knives: The Young Knives say more about society than many others, they highlight foibles over and over again in the way the vastly over-rated Kaiser Chiefs manage to do only 5% of the time.
No Shouts No Calls by Electrelane: An excellent motivator of an album, it has a great beat and top keyboards. Vocals like this are so rare since the C86 era. This band should have been allowed the chance to prevent “new rave”.
The End of History by Fionn Regan: Bella Union goodness is mandatory and these songs are lovely.
Make Another World by Idlewild: Roddy Woomble is a marvellous lyricist and this album sounds a bit angry.
Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters by The Twilight Sad: Towering auras of sound with baffling lyrics sung in an unashamedly Scottish voice.
The Art of Fiction by Jeremy Warmsley: A lad with braces and a canary has taken the time to write some fun songs.
Show Me How The Spectres Dance by Liam Frost & The Slowdown Family: The songs have that quality of being melancholic yet uplifting. The instrumentation is superb.
The Beatific Visions by Brakes: it’s a bit of everything in less than half an hour.
A Brighter Beat by Malcolm Middleton: There’s a dark humour on this album that needs to be appreciated. It has many a brighter beat.
Bryan Burnett welcomed Pat Nevin to the stage to present the award. After a short speech where he urged Camera Obscura to release some new songs quickly, he presented the award to Verity from Electrelane. She has pledged to put the book token towards the Iain Banks one when it comes out in paperback.
The awards ceremony was swiftly interrupted by Sid Collumbine and Willie Gray as they arrived to survey East End Park as a possible venue for their CIS cup tie against Rangers.
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