{"id":9721,"date":"2011-02-28T11:37:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T11:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejoycollective.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9721"},"modified":"2011-03-07T15:02:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T15:02:07","slug":"aidan-john-moffat-human-dont-be-angry-malcolm-middleton-cooler-bristol-05-03-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/preview\/aidan-john-moffat-human-dont-be-angry-malcolm-middleton-cooler-bristol-05-03-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Aidan John Moffat \/ Human Don’t Be Angry (Malcolm Middleton) : Cooler, Bristol : 05.03.11"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Arab Strap’s 2006 ‘retirement’ took prematurely from us a reliable source of amorous, bilious, bitter, tender, intoxicated brilliance, but if anything its two members’ creative output only blossomed further as a result.\u00a0 AIDAN MOFFAT detoured into poetry and prose (2008’s I Can Hear Your Heart<\/em>), a gorgeous solo-with-band album of balladic pop songs (How To Get To Heaven From Scotland<\/em>, one of 2009’s slept-on gems) and, almost inevitably, a sideline as a sex columnist.\u00a0 MALCOLM MIDDLETON, meanwhile, has quietly built up a fine back catalogue of some half-dozen solo records ranging from stingingly self-loathing and inward-looking to upbeat, widescreen declarations of love and even confidence.\u00a0 Who’d have thought it.\u00a0 Who, indeed, would have expected to see the pair reunited for a tour?\u00a0\u00a0While never remotely acrimonous, their split seemed to herald a parting of professional ways.\u00a0 Seems pretty matter-of-fact when you read the press, though – Moffat’s just completed a very promising new set of collaborations with polymath composer Bill Wells, due in May, and Middleton’s own itchy feet have led him down a new experimental path under the name Human Don’t Be Angry, in which “the guitars come first, and words second – if at all”.\u00a0 This is very much Moffat’s show, with his friend trying something new in support, and while any kind of onstage reunion would be a very unexpected and welcome surprise,\u00a0there’s more than enough in their latest individual\u00a0left-turns to make both of them excellent company.<\/p>\n

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Sat 5th March – DHP presents…
\nAIDAN JOHN MOFFAT with HUMAN DON’T BE ANGRY (MALCOLM MIDDLETON)
\nThe Cooler
\n48 Park Street, Bristol BS1 5SG
\nDoors: 7.30 PM \/ \u00a38.00 adv<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.aidanmoffat.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.malcolmmiddleton.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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