Echo & The Bunnymen perform The Somnambulist on Later… with Jools Holland on BBC Two (9 October 2018). For more performances and interviews from the show, subscribe now: bit.ly/2fKbxWg. Watch the whole episode here: www.bbc.co.uk/later
Me too followed them since about 84, nothing ever lives up to first four albums though..the climax to over the wall ,and the urgent counterpoint guitar in 'Ripeness' , and the big bashing b side 'Rollercoaster' ,are my three faves ( oh make it four....Thorn of Crowns..)
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got completely addicted to this song. a masterpiece.
Ouch. Longevity in rock n roll rarely works. The Fall, Nightingales, can't think of anyone else who managed to move on as they aged. Mac and Will should have stuck with Electrafixion. Fantastic name for a band and people like me who remember their truly great period (recording wise 80/81, live 80-85), would not keep comparing their latest output to it.
I really love the Electrafixion period, even to now. Fantastic sounds and songs. That said, I always find songs on every post-2000 release that make me believe again, this being one, as well.
Well, if you expect someone´s gonna sound the same at the age of 60 as they did when they were 20-25 you´re an idiot. I love the way he sounds now as much as his younger voice.
@@vicsillnorth7970 -- nice straw man. he didn't say he expected him to sound the same 35 years later. he would just like if the guy hadn't stupidly destroyed his voice to the point where it is a ragged shell of itself so that it wouldn't be embarrassing to see/hear him try to perform. and in case you think that singers can't sound very nearly as good as they used to, check out andy mccluskey of OMD....the guy took care of his voice, i swear that he sounds as good today as he did 35 years ago. maybe that makes YOU the idiot.
I hoped there’d be more Rusts and Nothing Lasts Forevers as Mac aged. At least they’re still playing and Will sounds great. I rank this one up there with that dreadful Holy Moses song really on a couple years back.
This is way better than Rust and Nothing Last forever. There is something a bit morbid about those two songs, like a lost innocence and realization of mortality.
There are plenty of wonderful old songs, but since Slideling and What are you going to do with .? it has been less than stellar. Flowers was nice ,but i lost interest in Ian at Siberia .Will is always phenomenal.
@@anaranjadisimo "The Fountain" was the total and utter fall from grace of what was left of the greatest band in the world. Siberia had the awesome "In The Margins" their last great song. The rest was pretty uneven. As for Slideling this has two great songs, "Baby Hold On" and "Kansas" but the rest was just OK.
They were a good band but The Cure, because of Robert Smiths unique voice, went on to become huge and Echo and the Bunnymen just went nowhere. Amazing that they are still playing after 40 years. That’s an achievement in itself.
