Artist.......: The Rakes
Album........: Live au Festival des Vieilles Charrues
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2011-02-13
Str.date.....: 2009-07-19
Quality......: 174kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.therakes.co.uk/
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1. Live au Festival des Vieilles Charrues 57:17
Runtime 57:17
Size 71.50
Release Notes:
Proof that one fantastic single is all it takes to make a band's name, the Rakes
burst onto the London music scene in 2004 with "22 Grand Job," a pithy punk
satire of crappy entry-level office jobs. Various stories swirled about how the
band -- which featured vocalist/guitarist Alan Donohoe, guitarist Matthew
Swinnerton, bassist Jamie Hornsmith, and drummer Lasse Petersen -- got together,
ranging from elaborate tales of meeting on a flight to Amsterdam to the more
plausible explanation of being childhood friends. The Rakes played a few local
dates before unleashing 22 Grand Job, which was released as a limited-edition 7"
by Trash Aesthetics, also the early home to Bloc Party. The single also appeared
on the Fierce Panda compilation EP On the Buzzes. The band spent that spring and
summer recording and supporting like-minded acts such as Bloc Party, the Others,
and Art Brut. In the fall, the Rakes released their second single, Strasbourg,
on City Rockers and embarked on their first tour. After signing with V2, the
band rang in 2005 by gigging and working on their debut album. The singles
Retreat and Work, Work, Work (Pub, Club, Sleep) anticipated the released of
Capture/Release in the U.K. in summer 2005. Dim Mak released Retreat as an EP in
the U.S. that fall, coinciding with the Rakes' first stateside tour.
Capture/Release arrived in the U.S. in spring 2006. An EP of remixes in 2007
preceded the band's second album Ten New Messages, which appeared that spring.
The band returned with the noisier Klang, which was released in the U.K. in
spring 2009; the week before the album's U.S. release that fall, the band
announced in a statement that they were parting ways.