Scott Kannberg aka Spiral Stairs
Last Friday, with TWO tickets to Thursday’s gig in Whelan’s of Wexford Street, Dublin by Pavement guitarist Scott Kannberg (above) aka Spiral Stairs on offer, I asked you to name your favourite Pavement or Spiral Stairs song and why.
You answered in your low numbers (this being a niche act) and, sadly, there could be only one winner….
Winner:
Pavement – Here
Otis Blue writes:
Was thinking about Box Elder but I’m going to go with Here. Not only for the gloriously downbeat opening lines – ‘I was dressed for success but success it never comes’, but also because it references ‘mavens’ as songs so seldom do.
Also Tindersticks do a great cover version. On which point, I recommend Pavement’s cover of the Bunnymen’s The Killing Moon…
Thanks all.
Last week: Win Nick’s Other Tix
Pavement…a niche act? Oh my…..
Spiral Stairs.
It’s just The Fall in 1985, isn’t it?. They haven’t got an original idea in their heads.
Ahh so this is where Coldplay robbed the chord progression of ‘Yellow’ from