…of Joan’s Large Arse Mound
Large Mound are too deadly: they’ve posted the track Joan of Arse on their MySpace player for our ears’ delight. From le Mound blog:
Joan of Arse was one of the first songs written for ‘My Whole Life Is Have To’. In it, Anthony tells the story of the band Joan of Arse right up until we last heard from them. It was always a great song to play live, and before I headed off to Canada we recorded a pretty decent demo with Anthony Darby on drums.
Anyway, the version here is the version we recorded for MWLIHT. It didn’t make the final album, not because the song wasn’t good enough, but because we weren’t happy with the recording and playing on it. It was a last minute decision really. We even got Kris Poulin to mix it, but alas Poulins sterling work couldn’t rescue it.
To anyone who doesn’t know (and what self-respecting Irish rock fan doesn’t), Joan of Arse are a ‘criminally inactive’ band who set tongues and tails wagging a few years back with their very French-titled, very awesome EP Le Remusement Triste et Lent de la Queve d’un Vieux Chien and went on to record three albums. One is still due to be released, no doubt they’ll up sticks and don straps at some point and blow our cocky scenesters away…
