N°72 BAND OF HORSES - IS THERE A GHOST

Series 30, episode 7 of Later with Jools Holland (Harlem is actually a city in The Netherlands) was filled with Beirut, KT Tunstall, Martin Simpson, The Ting Tings, Mutya Buena, Gabriela Cilmi and .... Band of Horses off course. So there's your link.

Now who are Band of Horses?  They're a five piece (originally four) American indie band originating from Seattle and they started out in 2004 as the warming up band for Iron and Wine. A year later they released their first EP named after the band followed in that same year by a full album called Everything All The Time. This album only contains almost all the songs from the previously released EP and the first song of the album is actually titled The First Song.Some of the EP songs were renamed and re-recorded though. The First Song would not be the first single ever to be released since that would be the single The Funeral. At first I wanted to pick this song but then again they performed Is There a Ghost on Jools' show so I changed my mind about the posted song. I'd check it out on youtube though.

Is There A Ghost is actually their first single from their second album Cease to Begin which was released two years after Everything All The Time. In Belgium I guess this was their biggest hit and thus they were invited to Pukkelpop in 2010. I didn't go and watch them but I can remember we'd be hanging around the Marquee stage while they were playing and they were pretty good. They toured around Europe that year playing a few big festivals and doing the warmups for Snow Patrol and Pearl Jam.

After the release of Infinite Arms, their third album, in 2010 they got nominated for a Grammy award but didn't win it unfortunately. Again they were able to tour Europe on different festivals and that year they'd play Werchter. They love Belgium and Europe I guess and they're also loved for doing wqarm ups for big bands such as Foo Fighters and King of Leon. If that last band doesn't cancel tours that is.

Anyway here's the last song for 2011 but there will be more in 2012. Happy New Year !!!