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Herald Article - Saturday, 15th January 2000 Dave Prater reviews Mondo Morricone Tron Theatre, Glasgow Following in the hallowed footsteps of Brian Wilson and Serge Gainsbourg; Ennio Morricone is the latest hero of modern music to receive the Duglas T Stewart and Davie Scott treatment. For this Celtic Connections event, a playful homage to one of the greatest and most prolific composers (over 400 soundtracks!) of the last century, Duglas, Davie, and enough friends to fill a pub were truly the good, the b-a-a-d, and the talented. With no shortage of material to choose from, they covered the Morricone repertoire, from the familiar, with Chi Mai, to the obscure, in Splash, (a commercial for a household cleaner of all things). Kicking off, appropriately, with the main theme from Once Upon a Time In The West, Peter Easton's spoken lyric vocalised the very essence of Morricone's haunting composition. From the badlands of the West to the sunkissed beaches of South America for Bianco Rosso E Verdant (sic), an irresistibly catchy bossa rhythm with harmonious ba-ba-ba-ba-bas provided by Bather mainman Chris Thomson and Audrey Redpath. The Morricone Goes Latin theme continued as Isobel Campbell of Belle and Sebastian managed to outdo Astrud Gilberto in the wistfulness stakes in an enchanting version of Argomenti. And hey! She sang it in Spanish (sic). While many of the compositions sound like simple pieces of disposable kitsch, Morricone's tunes are complex arrangements which the band succesfully mastered. Quite an accomplishment if Davie's revelation that the band only had three rehearsals is to be believed. And did they do The Good, The Bad and The Ugly? Of course, and twice, complete with whoops, yelps, and the best handclaps this side of Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On. Duglas, Davie, and friends will be visiting Stirling and Aberdeen in the very near future and I can't recommend the show enough. Mondo Morricone! Viva Scotland's finest! Article reproduced with the kind permission of 'The Herald, Glasgow'. Copyright Scottish Media Newspapers, 1998. |
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