Edinburgh Corn Exchange
This was a second Proclaimers' gig in quick succession,
but the difference this time around was that C&C were promoting a new
album: the really rather fine Born Innocent set.
The strong title track opened the concert, and I can
clearly remember the “Duane-Eddy” ones (Hate My Love and You Meant It Then) putting in appearances not long after. Album
producer Edwyn Collins, I am guessing, may have been behind putting the twang
into these two songs.
The witty Role Model (for Victoria Beckham?) was also aired, as was the Boys’
cover of The Vogue’s Five o’Clock World; the latter a composition seemingly
written for Craig and Charlie to interpret.
My personal fave from the new album – the darkly
insightful No Witness – regretfully was not performed, I don’t think.
All the biggies from previous albums were played to the usual
acclaim, with (if memory serves), me personally getting to hear My Old Friend The
Blues for the first time. I have never discovered
what Steve Earl thought of the Proclaimers’ take on his song, but it would not surprise
me if he occasionally reflects “Hmmm, now that is how I should have sung it”
One cover we didn’t get was Waiting For a Train.
A decade on I am still waiting.
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