Beauty is a Dark Cloud When You're Alone

[commonpeople1]

Camera Obscura, The Nights Are Cold, 17 May 2010
Camera Obscura's new single is a Richard Hawley cover and will be released on my mom's birthday.  I find everything they do to be twee gentle, thoughtful and full of heart. They are also masters at crafting pop songs as well as choosing covers.  On a search to discover more about the track, I learned that Richard Hawley's original version is gorgeous too (perhaps better?) - that, in fact, most of the stuff Hawley composes is brilliant.  That he belonged to the Longpigs during the Britpop years (never cared much for them but must now revisit), followed by Pulp.  That he once auditioned to be Morrissey's guitarist in 1991 but got fired when he started singing Elvis Presley's "One Night".  That he's now working with Lisa Marie Presley on an album due this year - she writes the lyrics to his compositions.  It could be good.  The b-side to Camera Obscura's single is a track from the band’s “My Maudlin Career” album remixed by Hawley, again.

You must always give thanks to the day when you discover an artist you like.  The single and b-side will be available in my MP3 store from the 17 May onwards.

Comments

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

The original song was "One night of sin", and was a lot sleazier!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Maybe that's the version he sang to Le Moz? What a flirt.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Somewhere on my hard drive I have Marc Almond singing it. One night of sin/ is what I'm paying for/The things I did and I saw/would make the earth stand still...

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I'd love to hear that version. Will try to track it down.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Remind me when you're back in London, and I'll e-mail it to you.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

You can email me now if you want. We have email here in Brasil. :-)

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

It was more that I wasn't sure what IT you had with you for downloading purposes.

You will shortly have mail.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Nice one. Thank you!

[millionreasons.livejournal.com]

Your mum is one day younger than me! (sort of)

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I shall keep that in mind when I fly back to the UK on your birthday.

[zenithed.livejournal.com]

New Camera Obscura single? Hurray!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

You know, after I posted this I was thinking of who might like the band and you popped into my head! I'm glad you confirmed by 3rd eye's vision. :-)

[zenithed.livejournal.com]

Yep, I've been following them since they used to play in the back of pubs. Really glad they're doing so well these days.