Uncharacteristically blazing sun and the soft rolling Water Of Leith provided the backdrop to our latest excursion into the fresh air, this time accompanied by the delightful Honeytrap. Fresh(ish) from a rousing appearance in the capital the night before – with the apres-gig entertainings ending brief hours before we met up – we dragged them down to the river to play.
To start the day off right, we got ‘To America’, a shimmering pearl of gypsy indie, a Jarvis-fronting-Beirut, tempo-changing balalaika of a song, with an exhortation to move to America that may or may not be entirely serious.
For seconds, we got a song they wrote in Norway called ‘Marit With Children’, which we needed to record without drummer Brendan, for fear that he’d burst into flames in the searing heat.
Before we all died of heatstroke, we retreated back into the slightly less fierce Lord Mayor’s garden where we were treated to the final track of the day ‘Mussolini’s Son’. To be frank, by this point the sun had clearly gotten to everyone a bit, which should become apparent in the video. Sorry about that.
Honeytrap – Off the Beaten Facts
- Drummer Brendan is scared of dogs. So when Satan’s own German Shepherd showed up during filming (complete with pentangle collar decoration), he scarpered.
- There are two Dans in Honeytrap – one is big, the other not so much. One is therefore called Big Dan, and the other Little Dan. Functional, rather than imaginative.
- Brendan has some horrible stories about poo.
- Big Dan likes the boardgame Risk, but seems to think that the conquest of each different region wins you a relevant hat of some kind.
- Big Dan also is also the best in the band at rolling down hills.
- Honeytrap have an album out called Follies In Great Cities…
- …and they also have a Myspace to boot.
