The Pandamonium - "Waiting for the Summer". These English chaps don't even know the degree to which this song is correct. Yesterday, T said to me, "I've hit a wall with this weather". The road was lined with sheaves of hard gray snow. Salt-stains all over the sidewalk. Bare trees, with wood wet and sickly. "Yeah," I said, kicking some gravel. March in Montreal is like that. It feels like purgatory. We see the blue skies and feel Sunday sunshine and can think only, soon, soon, soon! We eat hotdogs and drink beers and pretend like it was barbecue. In the 1960s, what did the Pandamonium do? Did they shiver under willows and eat July-style pasties? Waiting for the summer is different in Quebec and in Kent, but the soundtrack seems the same: pattering drums, balmy guitars, a coaxing, hopeful voice. We don't want to play too loud; we don't want to scare the season away. [buy / via hoot.ch]
Posted by Sean at March 10, 2014 12:57 PMToday was the first properly sunny day of the year in Glasgow, and it was seriously like everyone had this song tucked in their shoes like orthopedic inserts. Brilliant timing!
Posted by Ryan at March 10, 2014 5:51 PMNice song; it reminded me of Chad & Jeremy, in the old days, and checking online I see this group recorded around that same time.
p.s. Here in Down East Maine they say, "Once you get up March hill, you can see April on the other side."
Posted by RPS at March 10, 2014 6:26 PMBeautiful lyrics weaved in a fantastic musical form. Outstanding is the word for this :)
Posted by Allen! at March 22, 2014 6:57 AM
and it will begin playing. All songs are also available to download: just right-click the link and choose 'Save as...'
