Guillemots are a frighteningly prolific band – frontman Fyfe Dangerfield claims he has 60 hours of music in the vaults – which is why decided to put their songwriting skills to the ultimate test: could they write and record an entire track from scratch, on a subject of our choosing, in just 24 hours?
We visited the band in their East London recording studio, gave them a topic – “Seabirds” – and set the stopwatch. 24 hours later, a song emerged, fully-formed and actually rather fantastic.
Based around a thudding electronic drumbeat, Seabirds is, according to Dangerfield, about “youthful idealism”, and features sounds created by such esoteric “instruments” as house-keys, scissors, a length of hoover pipe, a camera-shutter, and, best of all, a copy of Q being flicked though.
You can read the story behind the track in the new issue of Q, but the only place you can hear it is here on Q4music.com.
Video Interview: The Making Of 'Seabirds'
Guillemots second album Red is out now.
12:33 PM | 04/04/2008
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Brill Song!!! Cant Wait Till Comes Out On CD!!!! :)
Posted by luke williams at 9:18 AM | 22/05/2008 | Report Abuse
Is Thre anywre i could dwnload this nw?
Posted by Aaron Glossop at 9:21 AM | 22/05/2008 | Report Abuse
WICKED tune when is it going to be brought out?
Posted by gaz at 6:39 PM | 16/07/2008 | Report Abuse
when i click on listen to seabirds it just comes up with can not find website (what am i doing wrong? please help me i really want to listen to it again,.
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