Teenage Fanclub on playing live, working through heartache and needing coffee before live shows
dailyrecord.co.ukWhen rock stars go in search of a high, they don’t usually get it from coffee.But espresso is what will be giving indie favourites Teenage Fanclub a buzz when they begin their latest tour.Lynchpin Norman Blake, 56, laughed: “Our days of raising hell are well behind us.
I’ve been talking to Raymond (McGinley, the band’s other main writer) about buying an espresso machine for backstage. We will need a coffee before we go on.
But the only thing we’ll be looking for are coffee pods.”While they did a handful of shows last year to play songs from their latest album, Endless Arcade, Covid stopped a full tour.
Until next week.They kick off at Glasgow’s SWG3 on Wednesday for a run around the UK and Ireland and then Europe before returning home in July to headline Doune the Rabbit Hole festival in Stirlingshire.When he gets back Norman will start looking for his own home after spending the pandemic living with his parents back in his old childhood home in Bellshill.
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