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9 de may. de 2024 · In press materials, vocalist Aidan Moffat noted a difference between the “old” Arab Strap and the “new”. He claimed that “phase one” had “focused on the ugliness and messiness of romance as a youngster,” but that’s not what he “sings about anymore. It feels like two different bands.”
16 de may. de 2024 · The band’s 2021 comeback album, As Days Get Dark – their first in 16 years – poked and prodded at the mundanities of middle-age. Here, Moffat ramps up his campaign for a best-songwriter-of ...
23 de ene. de 2024 · Veteran Scottish indie depressives don’t seem like the type to throw emojis into their album titles, but that’s what they’re doing. In 2021, Arab Strap’s Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton ...
Early life. Moffat was born and raised in Falkirk, Scotland.The first album he bought was Elvis Sings for Kids by Elvis Presley. Whilst at Falkirk High School, he listened to such groups as Pixies, Dinosaur Jr. and Slint. His first ever gig was at the age of 16, and saw David Byrne at Glasgow Barrowlands in 1989. In 1990, aged 17, he was expelled from school, with no Higher Qualifications.
21 de sept. de 2016 · Aidan Moffat: Recorded somewhere in Europe on tour, this is a previously unreleased full-band, updated version of an acoustic song from our first album. People would always ask me if I’d ever got into trouble because of any Arab Strap songs.
4 de mar. de 2021 · Ed Power. Thu Mar 4 2021 - 05:00. Before going into the studio to record their first album as Arab Strap in 15 years, Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton embarked on a thought exercise. Could...
25 de ene. de 2024 · The new single, "Bliss", addresses the horrors of online hate, as vocalist Aidan Moffat says “It’s about women being terrorised online; it’s about cowardice and bigotry. It’s about how we expose ourselves on social platforms while hiding alone at home. But you can dance to it too!”
