Dollars To Pounds: Don’t Fight It, Field It
- story THE FADER
When bands split into solo factions, the parts are rarely greater than the sum. For every Wings there’s a Ringo, for every Gorillaz a Fat Les, for every Phil Collins a Mike & The Mechanics. Not so with Field Music. Late last year the criminally underrated Sunderland trio announced they were suspending Field Music operations in order to work on their individual projects— David Brewis as School Of Language and his brother Peter as The Week That Was. Brows were furrowed. But when they played a celebratory gig together at the Luminaire last week, their peculiar decision was instantly vindicated.
David and Peter are odd, engaging chaps with college lecturer haircuts and a nice line in self-deprecating banter. They’re also prolific musical polymaths who seem to be able to play every instrument going, and have no trouble switching from Field Music’s pithy Blur-play-Bacharach nuggets, to School Of Language’s fibrous clang, to the dense, Sylvian-styled sophisto-pop of The Week That Was. They’re also, as I discovered, keen connoisseurs of North-Eastern ales…
Download: The Week That Was, “The Good Life”
