Turin Brakes

One of my favourite bands and about time they got a thread on here.

Love their albums, love them live and Olly is just so cute

Yeah, the are quite good. Have they brought out any new material lately?

Their latest album Dark on Fire was released last september, its very good.

Better than their previous one, which is probably the weakest of the four imo.

They toured the UK in February (we saw them in Stoke, excellent as usual) and will be doing some summer festivals tba.

Yeah Stoke was stonkin' stood right at the front. Apart from the stupid cow who kept dancing into me.

she wanted you

she was a horrid drunken witch

I have the album Jackinabox. It has some great songs! I especially like Last Clown and Come and Go - including the ambient music at the end, veeery cool.

I've got three of their albums but never really got THAT into them as I'd hoped, for me they're just "one of those bands I occasionaly listen to". Think the reason why is that alot of their songs just sound the same, but still, Feeling Oblivion is a top tune

I'll say the same as Robeman, but in a less succinct way! They're a bit samey, but don't dislike them totally and they had a couple of good tracks.

Always liked Fishing for a Dream. Loved its whimsy...

Is your name really Vincento? That's a fantastic name!

I've totally fallen for Dark On Fire, it's a brilliant record!!
it has such an excellent balance of happy and sad... they're awesome. I wish I was able to see em live.

Dark on Fire is a complete return to form IMO

I really, really can't take to Dark Fire. It's weird, I discovered Elbow, Turin Breaks and Aqualung around the same time... But i seem to have grown appart from the Breaks. Still LOVE the Optimist though!

Always liked but not loved this band. Optimist is great listen, newer albums dont seem to match it though. always have good solid songs on there albums but they lack something to make me love them. Great live though.

^^^Good to see ya Chan - i think i've still a cd you made for me from the SP Forum!
I still think Turin Brakes will struggle to beat The Optimist, it offers so much, where as the last two to me just seem so bland, bar a few tunes. They're still a great band to see live though.

I think jackinabox had some great moments, but just can't get into dar on fire in the slightest!!!!

vincento72 wrote:

Always liked Fishing for a Dream. Loved its whimsy...

Has anyone seen the latest advert for Special K cereal? I just saw it on Dave in between Top Gear and QI, and they use an instrumental remake of Fishing for a Dream in the background!

huh wrote:

I think jackinabox had some great moments, but just can't get into dar on fire in the slightest!!!!

I'm with ya Sarah, i actually went back to listening to first two albums - pure quality..

ChrisMcW wrote:

^^^Good to see ya Chan - i think i've still a cd you made for me from the SP Forum!
I still think Turin Brakes will struggle to beat The Optimist, it offers so much, where as the last two to me just seem so bland, bar a few tunes. They're still a great band to see live though.

Agree fully with that statment. Great live but albums do seem to alck a little in something.