A Muso's Top 10: The Twilight Sad

Since the first record, some of the things we've been doing are: playing gajillions of gigs round UK, Europe, America and Canada, drinking too much, not sleeping, living in vans, locking keys in vans, putting out invisible fires in hotels with fire extinguishers, getting fined, fighting with people that throw glasses, meeting our alter-egos, kicking world invaders off the stage, meeting goobers and taking the pish out of them, losing shoes and spewing in them, losing band members, sleepwalking in showers, getting vans searched by sniffer dogs, going to the Reeperbahn and some awkward scud clubs, losing suitcases, having birthdays, getting heatstroke at the Cubs game, falling down the rocky steps, nearly falling on fireworks, passing out on stage, getting chased by the police, renaming ourselves "The Cunts" for the Pitchfork festival, giving laptops a drink, getting gear stolen, blowing up amps, getting married to Guns N' Roses songs, getting on planes, trains and buses, recording a new album and a million other things that have fallen out of my head at this point in time.

This was the soundtrack:

1. The Birthday Party - The Friend Catcher
2. Neu! - Negativland
3. Deerhoof - Jagged Fruit
4. Black Sabbath - Into the Void
5. ESG - Dance
6. Pavement - Harness Your Hopes
7. Shellac - Shoe Song
8. Liars - Broken Witch
9. Toots & The Maytals - 54-46 (That's My Number)
10. Guns n' Roses - Coma

- Andy MacFarlane, July 2009