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Per Stam
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Username: Matsrep

Post Number: 30
Registered: 10-2005
Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 12:06 pm:   

I just read a review of the new album by The Clientele (pitchforkmedia.com). There is a quote from one of the songs that clearly echoes a Grant song (and this is probably a very fine greeting to Grant). Does anyone else but me hear another song beneath this:
"I realize now that his delicate frame could only have been nourished by medieval foods: turnips, blood sausage, perhaps songbirds roasted in a thin, toxic sauce of mercury"
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Elizabeth Robinson
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Username: Liz_the_new_listener

Post Number: 99
Registered: 10-2006
Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 12:41 pm:   

The words alone remind me of 'River of Money', that marvelous spoken word number, if not 'Reunion Dinner'.
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Little Keith
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Username: Manosludge

Post Number: 1896
Registered: 03-2006
Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 04:47 pm:   

For a relatively new listener, Liz, you sure know your Grant. Excellent spotting.
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Matsrep
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Username: Matsrep

Post Number: 32
Registered: 10-2005
Posted on Thursday, May 17, 2007 - 01:34 pm:   

Yeah, I was thinking of River of Money. Haven't heard the Clientele (also spoken word) song yet, though. I wonder if the impression will last?
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Thomas Keitsch
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Username: Thokei

Post Number: 15
Registered: 06-2005
Posted on Saturday, May 19, 2007 - 12:41 pm:   

The Clientele are playing in Australia soon, also in NZ. Support will be from Robert Scott (The Clean; The Bats ) Robert will be joined by Mel ( violin player of the Clientele ), so dont be late :-)

Dates:

25.7. Melbourne - Robert Scott with Mel, but without The Clientele. Venue is unknown at the moment.

26.7. Melbourne - East Brunswick Club
27.7. Sydney- Spectrum
28.7. Brisbane- Troubadour
30.7. Auckland
31.7. Wellington

( gigs from 26.7.-31.7. all with the clientele )
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Matsrep
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Username: Matsrep

Post Number: 40
Registered: 10-2005
Posted on Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - 09:45 am:   

I played my favourite Clientele song Losing Haringey (from Strange Geometry) for a friend. He immediately picked up the guitar figure and started looking for the first Jack Frost album. Yes, one Grant song, Trapeze Boy (I think), have the same figure. No wonder I fell for the Clientele appropriation!
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julia motzko
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Username: Julia

Post Number: 37
Registered: 05-2005
Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 09:40 pm:   

I really love The Clientele's "Here comes the Phantom" from their recent album. Actually I love the whole album. I also enjoy reading Alasdair's blog at http://theclientele.blogspot.com/

(On a different note: I'm just listening to the Radio Department cover of Bachelor Kisses, it's fantastic)
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julia motzko
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Username: Julia

Post Number: 38
Registered: 05-2005
Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 09:50 pm:   

here's the mp3:

http://tinyurl.com/2bzkay

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