Another Band You Should Listen To Just Because I Like What I Heard On Their Myspace

On the plane ride home from SXSW, there's not much to do except trying to fall asleep, which in many cases, doesn't involve too much trying. You see, the majority of the festival is over with at the end of Saturday night, and all of the working-world and aspiring college graduate chumps typically have to return on Sunday sometime in order to resume some semblance of normalcy on Monday. If you have an early flight, this means you probably won't be getting any sleep after the shows. If you have a later flight, you'll still probably be hungover and really tired from the previous four days' debauchery having just recently concluded.

After such a night of 45 minutes' rest, I was somehow still unable to get to sleep on my 9am flight the Sunday of SXSW 2006. SXSW 2006!? That was a long time ago! True, but you see, that's when I first heard about this band that I'm about to say something about! On that flight where I couldn't get to sleep, I had no choice but to dig through my bag and try to read one of the twenty-nine or so magazines I had picked up along the way, magazines I had picked up precisely as a contingency plan for not being able to sleep on the plane.

In one of these magazines, Art-something-or-other (I'm inclined to believe it was called Art Rocker, but who knows), there was a mention of an up-and-coming Scottish indie pop band that intrigued me. I tried to find something to listen to, but at the time it was unfortunately unavailable. Today however, for one reason or another (mainly because I've been convinced to check out some band of likely-questionable quality and was myspacing them to see what I'd be in for--a night of indie mediocrity for sure--and this other band came to my mind as someone to check out while still on myspace), I once again sought out Bricolage and was delighted with what I heard. Do you like Orange Juice? I know what you're thinking, everyone likes orange juice. It's a staple of breakfast! Well, let me ask you: what about grapefruit juice? Or apple juice? Or orange strawberry banana juice? Or Josef K? Gotcha! I wasn't talking about juice at all. Orange Juice are a band, much like Josef K, and much like Bricolage.

Anyway, I'm short on time so that's all you're going to get, except for a link. To confirm the potential that these guys have (or to shoot my perception down completely), check 'em out right here:

Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/bricolagetheband

Oh, and listen to the song "Bridge" off of Orange Juice's Texas Fever EP. It's good.