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Dave The Moon Man
Drunk, and lying outside on the lawn- Dave the Moonman. He’d look up at the blurred stars, as the dew on the grass soaked through the back of his jacket and the back of his trousers, and then he’d look … [cont…]
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Festival ’95
There are some days that catch the light, Days like diamonds. I saw a girl amongst the pillars, as I was climbing up the stairs. But just when I saw her she hid behind one of the pillars, so I … [cont…]
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Burning Flies
I’m quite happy burning flies. I’m quite happy burning flies. They went to fly a kite, They took a case of beer, They asked if I would come, But I’ll be alright here. I’m quite happy burning flies. I’m quite … [cont…]
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Impossible Things #2
So there was this boy and this girl, and they’d never met. They’d never spoken to each other or even seen each other. But one day the girl wrote a letter to the boy. The boy was lying in bed … [cont…]
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The Sunday Times – The Geometrid
So this, this, is what Stuart David left Belle & Sebastian for? The side project that, with its second album, now claims him in turning out to be small and increasingly perfectly formed. It may be the very lightest of … [cont…]
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The Daily Mail – The Geometrid
A more rounded affair than 1999’s debut, Up A Tree, using electronic bleeps and rhythmic loops to create a soulful mood. The amateurish approach can be indulgent, but on Bug Rain and the brass-led Mondo 77, quirky melodies and pummelling … [cont…]
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Time Out – The Geometrid
Having now left the mothership that was Belle & Sebastian, Stuart David has created, with wife Karn and the rest of Looper, his own Kubrickian ‘cyberspacestation’, the Geometrid – an album and a concept, all thematically centred on visions of … [cont…]
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Hot Press – Mondo ’77
Single Of The Fortnight Weh heh! Belle and Sebastian versus Looper, Battle of the Bands 2000! While not quite a Blur vs. Quoasis world championship bout, former B & S bassist Stuart David gives it the full fifteen rounds with … [cont…]
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Select – Mondo ’77
This idiot gem is ace toytown raga-disco midway between Morgan and ‘The Rockafeller Skank’ – with stylish patois chants from BMX Bandits’ Francis.
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