Paul Vickers & The Leg – Itchy Grumble
By Milo | February 14, 2010
dear reader: I know how confusing it is, when I jump back and forth between topics like a fickle cheerleader working her way through the school football team. And while new Scottish music is clearly an interest of mine, it is not, though some incorrectly assume otherwise, all that this blog is about. But on Sundays from now on it will be Scottish Music Sundays so at least you’ll know where you are one day per week.
First up, the new album from Paul Vickers & The Leg: Itchy Grumble (officially released tomorrow!)
It can be hard keeping up with the unrelenting creativity of Mr Paul Vickers. I was a little slow in catching up with his latest collaboration with The Leg, but I wasn’t disappointed when I saw them live. The Leg are the perfect band, outside of Dawn of the Replicants of course, to accompany his weird and crazy rantings, because they are equally as twisted as he.
And so they have embarked on a “rock opera”, named after the protagonist of the story, Mr Itchy Grumble. One day, it might even be a full theatrical stage show. Now that would be something to see!
Itchy Grumble is immortal.
His immortality was sealed the day he drank the tears of witch.
One day Itchy was asked to revolve a lighthouse on the Firth of Forth to reveal the ghostly replicate underneath…
It’s all madness of course. Like Tom Waits, Beefheart and The Fall in a bar room brawl on a boat. Literally. Which of course means it’s also bloody good. And you can hear it all right here, and then pop over to their bandcamp page and buy the whole damn album for £4. Bargain!
ITCHY GRUMBLE ALBUM LAUNCH
Saturday 13th March
Bang Bang Club, Electric Circus, Edinburgh
Doors 7pm. £8
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