Cheers, mate!

NEWS
GOODBYE
Updated Friday 8th September, 2006
Yes, it’s the end for Arab Strap. After ten years, six studio albums, three live albums and all manner of everything else, we’ve decided the story should come to a close. There’s no animosity, no drama, we simply feel we’ve run our course and The Last Romance seems to us the most obvious and logical final act of the Arab Strap studio adventure. Everybody likes a happy ending!
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It is midnight on the 8th of September 2006 and I have just opened a beer.
Cheers.

in http://www.arabstrap.co.uk/content/eng/news.php

Obrigado pela companhia nos dias cinzentos e pelo concerto de 26 de Fevereiro de 2001 no Scala em Londres - "[...] on Arab Strap’s new album, 'The Red Thread', Moffat’s words seem to have been transformed by love. Likewise, the band’s live show, which was made up largely of new songs, brought to mind the ghost of Ian Curtis rattling around among the best bits of Sonic Youth, and, strange as it sounds, it made for an uplifting experience."
Há algum tempo que passei a fase basa-lá-saborear-a-melancolia mas hoje abrirei uma cerveja com eles. E depois outra...