There Will Be Fireworks

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Foreign Thoughts 03:29 Tools
Colombian Fireworks 05:46 Tools
Midfield Maestro 00:00 Tools
Off With Their Heads 00:00 Tools
Guising 00:00 Tools
So The Story Goes 00:00 Tools
Here Is Where 00:00 Tools
I Like The Lights 00:00 Tools
From '84 00:00 Tools
River 00:00 Tools
We Were A Roman Candle 00:00 Tools
Youngblood 00:00 Tools
Headlights 00:00 Tools
A Kind of Furnace 00:00 Tools
We Sleep Through The Bombs 00:00 Tools
Says Aye 00:00 Tools
Joined Up Writing 00:00 Tools
And Our Hearts Did Beat 00:00 Tools
Roots 00:00 Tools
Ash Wednesday 00:00 Tools
Harmonium Song 00:00 Tools
So Stay Close 00:00 Tools
Lay Me Down 00:00 Tools
In Excelsis Deo 00:00 Tools
Your House Was Aglow 00:00 Tools
South Street 00:00 Tools
Elder And Oak 00:00 Tools
The Good Days 00:00 Tools
This Feels Like 03:52 Tools
Talking Backwards 00:00 Tools
White Noise on the TV 00:00 Tools
There Will Be Fireworks - River 00:00 Tools
This Feels Like... 00:00 Tools
Flirted With You All My Life 00:00 Tools
Off With Their Heads ( Post Rock) 00:00 Tools
Flirted With You All My Life by There Will Be Fireworks 00:00 Tools
Your House Was Aglow (live on In Session) 00:00 Tools
Lay Me Down (live on In Session) 00:00 Tools
We Sleep Through The Bombs (Post Rock) 00:00 Tools
'Foreign Thoughts' 00:00 Tools
Talking Backwards mastered 00:00 Tools
Joined - Up Writing 00:00 Tools
The Piano Song 00:00 Tools
Gloria In Excelsis Deo 00:00 Tools
Closet Weather 00:00 Tools
Geography, Vonnegut and Me 00:00 Tools
White Noise on TV 00:00 Tools
There Will Be Fireworks - Says Aye 00:00 Tools
There Will Be Fireworks - Off With Their Heads 00:00 Tools
The Dark, Dark Bright (full album) 00:00 Tools
Foreign Thoughts // Live at Solus Tent @ Wickerman 2010 00:00 Tools
Lay Me Down (Live) 00:00 Tools
South Street - Danger Sessions 01 00:00 Tools
Foreign Thoughts - There Will Be Fireworks 00:00 Tools
There Will Be Fireworks - Foreign Thoughts 00:00 Tools
There Will Be Fireworks - We Were A Roman Candle 00:00 Tools
I Liked The Lights 00:00 Tools
South Street (demo new song) 00:00 Tools
South Street (demo) 00:00 Tools
Blalock's Indie/Rock Playlist: Best of 09 - 46 - Foreign Thoughts 00:00 Tools
The Mandolin Song (radio) 00:00 Tools
There Will Be Fireworks - I Like The Lights 00:00 Tools
In Excelsis 00:00 Tools
There Will Be Fireworks - Midfield Maestro 00:00 Tools
This Feels Like ... / THEY SHOOT MUSIC 00:00 Tools
Your Hourse Was Aglow 00:00 Tools
From ‘84 00:00 Tools
Ash Wednesday / They Shoot Music 00:00 Tools
There Will Be Fireworks 00:00 Tools
young blood 00:00 Tools
We Are A Roman Candle 00:00 Tools
Off With Their Heads(2) 00:00 Tools
And Our Hearts Did Beat/River 00:00 Tools
Says AyeS 00:00 Tools
There Will Be Fireworks - A Kind Of Furnace 00:00 Tools
So Stay Close (Ending) 00:00 Tools
Shatter the Darkness 00:00 Tools
Midfield Maestro (Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
This Feels Like ... 00:00 Tools
From Mountain Movers, To Lazy Losers 00:00 Tools
Don't Blame It On The Ocean Floor 00:00 Tools
Guising ( Post\Inde rock ) 00:00 Tools
From 84 00:00 Tools
2923 Monroe St. 00:00 Tools
Roots (live) 00:00 Tools
River __ Live From Old Mill Studios 00:00 Tools
Guising(1) 00:00 Tools
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There Will Be Fireworks. It sounds like something a sports commentator might say before a title decider or grand slam final. It’s loaded with intent and certainty; entertainment and drama are a given. So it’s just as well the Glasgow band who chose that name are promising to live up to it, even if it was only struck upon through drunken chance. “One night we’d all been round at a friend’s house and woke up the next day with ‘There Will Be Fireworks’ in our phone inboxes,” says singer and guitarist Nicky McManus. “We’d been struggling to think of a name so we just went with it. There’s probably a meaning behind it that the beer haze of that night has since erased, but it eludes us.” Although they went to school together and played “in various bad bands in various combinations with a few other guys”, it wasn’t until last February that the quartet of McManus, Adam Ketterer (drums), Gibran Farrah (guitar) and David Madden (bass) started to take their music seriously as There Will Be Fireworks (TWBF). All aged between 21 and 22 and at the end of various university and college courses, they’re now ready to unveil a self-financed debut album that is nothing short of astonishing. From the spoken word intro by author Kevin MacNeil on Columbian Fireworks through the orchestral pomp of We Sleep Through the Bombs to the impassioned strains of last track Joined Up Writing, the album is rousing and magnificent, with an uncommon, almost Abbey Road-like consideration for the way the songs flow together. A work of lofty ambition, it took them a year to record, although this wasn’t as indulgent or tortured as that might normally suggest. “We were only doing a few days at a time, stolen moments away from university and work, so it took a lot longer than it otherwise would have,” McManus says. “But that was a good thing because it allowed us to obsess over little details we would have otherwise have ignored.” Farrah agrees: “I reckon we spent about two weeks’ worth of time recording over the course of a year, meaning that we would record something and then have the time to think about what we might add or change to the songs.” McManus’ lyrics tend to put heartache under the microscope, whether personal (“you’re unravelling in my arms”) or observed (“and if she dreams she dreams of the sounds you never speak”), but stay just on the right side of the fine line between earnestness and angst. “There is a kind of common thread on the album, but different songs are inspired by different people,” McManus reveals. “Basically, as horrendously clichéd and cheesy it sounds, the lyrics reflect a certain time and place in my life. Some of the lyrics are vague and some are a bit more personal but it’s probably best to let people interpret them however they like.” TWBF have already attracted comparisons to Scottish trailblazers The Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit, in part due to a similar dynamic aesthetic, but mostly down to the mundane fact that McManus sings in his own accent. “There seems to be a fervour to lump everything with a Scottish accent together, and in doing so to gloss over any musical differences between bands,” he complains. “I’d feel daft if I was to sing in a pretend Californian or London accent or whatever. Hopefully when people hear the album in its entirety, we’ll be able to stake a claim to our own little niche.” With critical acclaim surely around the corner and the follow-up already in gestation, There Will Be Fireworks look set to blow up in spectacular style. www.myspace.com/therewillbefireworks Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.