Future Islands on Jules Holland

Posted by: Ghettoyout on 01 January 2016

Thoroughly enjoyed their performance on last night's show. Samuel T Herring's dancing and growling is most impressive. Not sure is anyone else pulls off those moves.

The song 'Seasons (waiting on you)' was quite superb. Apparently it won best track of 2014 in a number of worthy publications and got into the Festive Fifty. And yet a quick search on this forum shows only minor interest in it. We should be actively alerting one another to high quality material like this. So in that vain may I interest you in the Lovely Eggs and Left Lane Cruiser.

Pips,

Ghetto Yout'.

Posted on: 01 January 2016 by Dan43

His dancing moves he looks like he is speed skating.

Posted on: 01 January 2016 by Ghettoyout

Here's a link to an earlier performance on said programme:

Posted on: 01 January 2016 by blythe

Strangely entertaining. I saw their earlier performance but prefer to listen to them than watch him...

Posted on: 01 January 2016 by dave marshall

Certainly a welcome change from the blandness of much modern music.............a quite unique voice and vocal delivery.

Posted on: 01 January 2016 by Jude2012

Worth checking out their performance at Glastonbury 2015., too.

Posted on: 03 January 2016 by Ghettoyout

Thanks for the suggestion - I've checked it out and it's not bad at all. Thought he handled his trip very well!

Posted on: 04 January 2016 by BigH47

Weird, had a lot of trouble understanding any thing he "sang". Different doesn't equal good though in my book

Posted on: 08 January 2016 by Mike Hughes

The American YouTube performance which went viral was extraordinary. On Jools he was fiat; sounded like he had a sore throat and looked embarrassed and relieved when it was over. Not sure why anyone would rave over flat and hoarse. Compare the videos. You'll soon see what I mean.

Posted on: 09 January 2016 by sheffieldgraham

Mike Hughes posted:
The American YouTube performance which went viral was extraordinary. On Jools he was fiat; sounded like he had a sore throat and looked embarrassed and relieved when it was over. Not sure why anyone would rave over flat and hoarse. Compare the videos. You'll soon see what I mean.

Mike,

A link would be helpful.

Thanks

Posted on: 09 January 2016 by Toe

Graham,

I think it was their appearance on the David Letterman show which went viral. There are some really good Future Islands concert clips on YouTube.

I saw them last year at the Plug in Sheffield!

Posted on: 09 January 2016 by Knipester

I think their album is very good but I'm not convinced by the production of their album. Alas it stops me from listening to the album as often as i should.

Posted on: 09 January 2016 by sheffieldgraham

Toe posted:
Graham,
I think it was their appearance on the David Letterman show which went viral. There are some really good Future Islands concert clips on YouTube.
I saw them last year at the Plug in Sheffield!

Thanks for that.

They appear to have made a couple of appearances on that show. However I was intrigued by their appearance on J.H's show. Something different. I bet they are a "better" act on stage vs. their recorded music. As an aside from the lead singer I often found the drummer just as entertaining, as I witnessed at a recent Richard Thompson concert at the city hall. It's often the case with me.

Shame I missed them at the Plug, but at my age, in that establishment, I would probably stand out somewhat.

Posted on: 09 January 2016 by Dustysox

Your only as old as eh....the music you listen to!!!!

Posted on: 10 January 2016 by Ghettoyout

Well that explains why the prog rockers are all pensioners!

Here's that link to Future Islands on an American programme mentioned earlier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK4lD3Uf8_o

Posted on: 10 January 2016 by Dan43

Starting to like this guy, music is catching too, not my thing but do like this tune. He comes across well on the Glastonbury footage.