Sometimes this happens. You try to be good. You try to organise your little gig so that an eager band isn’t left standing in an alleyway playing songs to three mid-afternoon drinkers and a pile of sick.

But you just can’t guarantee that the shop manager isn’t going to be out on his lunch break, and the guy who’s temping for him doesn’t know a thing about it. Ah. No amps. No shelter from the impending storm cloud. No matter.

Just so happens Push Borders are just as proficient on a giant dustbin as they are on keys. I once had a drunken conversation outside the pub with JP from the band that concluded with the nugget “don’t let people confuse your songs for your versions”. Professor Will was in effect. He has been justified. This song will sound great on record, and it will also sound good in a piss stained alley, in the middle of the afternoon outside an art gallery, played on a giant bin. They already knew that.

Expect and enjoy new Push Borders tunage very soon indeed, and in the meantime, there’s the small matter of a support slot with Lisa Hannigan at the Nerve Centre in Derry on 12 December. Whoop whoop!!

Push Borders – Dover

Download for iPod (68.4 MB)

Filmed by Will McConnell
in Belfast, October 2009

NEXT WEEK: A spooky Hallowe’en Special from MOJO FURY

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