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Teenage Fanclub on playing live, working through heartache and needing coffee before live shows
01.04.2022 - 17:25 / dailyrecord.co.uk
When 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. The singer had split with his Canadian wife Krista but with their daughter Rowan in Glasgow, he returned home.
He said: “I’m still at my parents but it’s more through circumstances. Once I’m back off tour I will be looking for some new digs.
“I’m just about to go out with my daughter to look for a flat for her in Glasgow south side.”
Maybe father and daughter could flatshare?
He laughed: “I could keep a sleeping bag there. If I ever find myself still in town after a few pints and the last train has gone I’ll give her a call.”
Time has been a healer for Norman. You only need to listen to Home and The Sun Won’t Shine On Me from Endless Arcade to know how sad he was at the end of his marriage. But from next week he’ll happily bare his soul to strangers by singing those lyrics.
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