[Feature] [Watch] [Listen] – Frightened Rabbit – Sing The Greys Sessions
Yesterday I posted a review of Frightened Rabbit’s debut album “Sing The Greys” with a stream for you to listen to it for free. Today I’m going to show some videos of songs from “Sing The Greys”. They only released one single from that album, a double A-side of “Be Less Rude” and “The Greys”. It was released on November 5th 2007 to coincide with the re-recorded/remastered version of “Sing The Greys”, a full year and a half after it was initially released to a limited run of 1,000 copies on their own record label Hit The Fan Records. I’ve also added some excellent versions of a few songs that they recorded live for Daytrotter back in 2008 and 2009.
They made a video for “The Greys”, directed by Fraser Campbell and released on FatCat Records in September 2007.
Although they never released a video for “Be Less Rude” and have since vowed to never play the song live again, here’s an excellent solo acoustic version of the song by singer Scott Hutchison for Off The Beaten Tracks, taken in May 2009 in Edinburgh.
Below is the Daytrotter version of “Be Less Rude”.
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Probably their most charming song to date is “Snake”, the last track on “Sing The Greys”. At an all-request gig (where there’s no setlist and audience members heckle the band until they play the song they want to hear) in New York, Scott explained the inspiration behind the song: “Jokingly holding up blank set-lists, Hutchinson explained that the idea for the all-request show came along because after 10 months of touring, “We just wanted to do something that was going to be enjoyable.” And enjoy it he did, telling stories about the songs between swigs from a bottle of whiskey. “Everyone thinks it’s about my penis, but it’s not,” he remarked after playing “Snake,” which he elaborated is actually about his plans to surprise a woman in New York City by showing up with nothing but the clothes on his back and a draft snake he’d been keeping for her. As it happened, the girl was “less than thrilled,” so he wrote “I Feel Better” as a sequel, reusing the music from the chorus.”
A video for “Snake” was made by Mark Charlton at Bluestar Animation and released in February 2009.
Below is the Daytrotter version of “Go-Go-Girls”.
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The most epic, anthemic song on “Sing The Greys” is “Square 9″. The below video was taken at their very first show in the U.S. in New York in January 2007, and shows the band as a three piece with Billy sporting a hoodie and Scott sporting beardless cheeks.
Below is the Daytrotter version of “Square 9″.
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