Its time to introduce our newest collaborator, radio fanatic Eilidh White! Here, she answers a few questions about her music tastes...
Well hello there, and welcome to my first blog here on Pure Tunes! I’m Eilidh and I’ll be taking over the Monday blog from here on out. Mainly I’ll be seeking out the newest of the new in the music world and writing about it. (I swear to God I’m not a hipster!) But as this is a ‘getting-‐to-‐know-‐ya’ post I’ll be answering a few questions asked by our own Jimmy Richards. So here we go:
What was the first record you bought?
Hmm, the first record I ever owned was Carry On Up The Charts by The Beautiful South. I was 7 years old and I used to play it on my Hitachi CD player/radio (which still resides in my Mums kitchen, vintage no?) To this day it’s still one of my favorite albums, in particular You Keep It All In and Good as Gold (Stupid as Mud) My Mum had this album on tape in her car and I used to play those songs over and over. I love them now not only for the nostalgia factor, but I also think Dave Hemingway’s vocals are astounding!
What band would you compare to your favorite alcoholic beverage?
Well, my poison is Morgans spiced, coke and lime, it was the first alcoholic drink bought for me at a family do, and I still love it to this day. So for that reason, and that reason alone I would probably have to compare it to Robbie Robertson. Storyville was the first album I fell in love with, Night Parade was my lullaby of choice as a child, and now I’m older I can appreciate it for what a truly complex and beautiful album it is.
What’s the worst gig you’ve ever been to?
I would have to say, the worst gig I’ve ever been to was Florence + The Machine at the SECC in March this year. Florence herself was fantastic, but support was provided by The Horrors who are the most terrible and quite frankly boring band I’ve ever had the misfortune of having my earholes exposed to.
What’s your favorite album?
By far my favorite album of all time is Foo Fighters Wasting Light, and I love it for so many reasons. One being that I had a great time following its production, looking at the twitpics (God bless Dave Grohl and his love of a good twitpic!) listening to the teasers, and not to mention it was one of the best moments ever when Ferne Cotton played Rope twice when it debuted on Radio One. The second main reason being it’s just a fantastic album, and to my mind the best one they’ve done so far. Recorded on tape it has that amazing gritty sound that’s just the epitome of rock and roll. There’s not a single song that I skip by no matter what mood I’m in and it’s also got my favorite song right now, Walk. It’s just an incredible, uplifting rock anthem and blasting it as loud as I can never fails to pull me out of any downer!
Finally, what’s your favorite video?
Seriously going to show my fangirl tendencies here and admit that my favorite video is Foo Fighters Learn to Fly. A) Because it’s an awesome song and B) It’s just hilarious!
So there we have it, I hope that’s shown you a little about me and the type of music you can expect to be hearing about in my posts! I’ll be posting same time next week but in between times you can follow my exploits in the twitterverse by following me on @eilidhpaley
Til next week! Peace,
Eilidh
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