Special Live Performance from Teenage Fanclub!
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2014
⏱️ 10 minutes
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A couple weeks ago, The Dinner Party Download took a trip down south to North Carolina to stage a special live event in conjunction with the Merge 25 music festival. Over three days, dozens of bands from the indie record label Merge’s 25 year history gathered together – and we were delighted to help kick […]
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, I'm Rico Gagliano, and welcome to a special podcast-only bonus installment of the dinner party download. |
| 0:12.5 | As regular listeners know, we were recently honored to do a live show in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, |
| 0:17.6 | as part of the 25th anniversary celebrations of the esteemed indie rock label |
| 0:22.0 | Merge Records. And our musical guests on that show were the hugely influential, and may |
| 0:27.5 | I say very friendly, Scottish band Teenage Fan Club. Back in the 90s, their third album Bandwagon-esque |
| 0:34.2 | layered 70s pop hooks with modern noise and landed them hits |
| 0:37.5 | around the world including the classic tune the concept this week merge is |
| 0:42.1 | reissuing their most recent two albums both of which were top 40 hits in the |
| 0:45.7 | UK so we thought it only appropriate to let you hear a couple of the acoustic |
| 0:50.2 | tunes which teenage fan club played for us here they are live at the very packed and very sweaty nightlight club in Chapel Hill. |
| 0:58.0 | My co-host Brendan Francis Nuneum introduced them like this. |
| 1:02.0 | Scotland's greatest export since Adam Smith, the father of capitalism. |
| 1:05.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, Teenage Fan Club. |
| 1:08.0 | Thank you. fan club. We did invent capitalism. |
| 1:18.6 | This is a song by a band called The Chills. chills. Two three, four. |
| 1:28.3 | Two, |
| 1:29.3 | three, four. |
| 1:31.3 | . Stay in bed much too late, |
| 1:45.0 | This kind of situation is vacant. Stay in bed much too late The sky in situations vacant |
| 2:05.6 | Facing the mirror gets with a hole |
| 2:10.6 | The skin is great I can go out and always go |
| 2:15.6 | In the door drums |
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