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ballboy I Worked On the Ships (CD, £10.95) due 11-08-2008
Over the last 7 years Edinburgh's BALLBOY have released 4 albums and numerous
singles.
The band's dry wit and imaginative story telling combined with the use of strong
bold images
and a depth of emotion poured into each song, have gained them a devoted fan
following,
not least of whom was the late John Peel, who invited the band to record
sessions for the
show five times. Over the years the band have had 11 tracks featured in his
legendary Festive
Fifty. BALLBOY recorded "I worked on the ships", in a cottage in the Scottish
Borders. The idea
was to move out of a standard studio environment and work on the recording of
the songs in
a new way. In some vague and not very important conceptual way the lyrics and
sounds are
related to boats - hence the album title. The album was produced by Gordon and
enhanced
by the addition of electronic orchestration and other bleeps and blops.
"McIntyre's forte is
mining that particularly Scottish brand of gallows whimsy, depositing lyrical
barbs, half-
spoken, half-sung, in a musical landscape" - The Scotsman