We now have an official video for "No One Knows We're Dancing" by Everything But The Girl from their brand new (after 24 years!) release "Fuse."
First up, this is Fabio
He drives here from Torino
Parking tickets litter
His Fiat Cinquecento
Fiat Cinquecento
His Fiat Cinquecento
Fiat Cinquecento
Amy is the sweetest
Works weekdays in a pet shop
Mixes vodka with her cola
She knows everybody's name
Everybody's name
She knows everybody's name
Everybody's name
It's 5PM on Sunday
No one knows we're dancing
Outside, the sun is blinding
No one knows we're dancing
Behind the bar is Peter
His father is a lawyer
For the EU out of Munich
He does London, Paris, Munich
London, Paris, Munich
He does London, Paris, Munich
London, Paris, Rome
It's 5PM on Sunday
No one knows we're dancing
Outside, the sun is blinding
No one knows we're dancing
All the Croyden boys are over
All the girls and night-off waiters
Sweat falls off the ceiling
We're all trapped in a feeling
(No one knows we're dancing)
It's 5PM on Sunday
No one knows we're dancing
Outside, the sun is blinding
No one knows we're dancing
Another spectacular song from the new Everything But The Girl release "Fuse" out now! This is "No One Knows We're Dancing" which is a moody tone poem about a day-time club...
Ah, here's another song released from the upcoming Everything But The Girl album "Fuse," their first in twenty four years! I must say Tracey's lower, richer tone really works on this beautiful, moody piece, "Run A Red Light."
Cashed up and all set
It’s a lock-in here until he says so
A little bump from a car key
Sit back darling, it’s all about us
Forget the losers, forget the morning
Put a tune on, and put your feet up
It was my idea, I hope you know that
We’re gonna have this, I’m the one now
Run a red light
Forget the morning
This is tonight
It’s the bar take not the door split
A few weeks and I can work it
Keep it simple, keep the same crowd
We’re on the inside, I’m the one now
Yeah I’m the one now
It’s 2am, we’re leaving loudly
Wake the neighbours, we won’t come quietly
They’ll all know my name soon
Anyway, anyway, anyway, anyway
Run a red light
Forget the morning
This is tonight
Ben and Tracey explain the song:
"It’s the third track so far from the new album, 'Fuse' (out Apr 21), and is actually the oldest song to feature on the record. Unlike most of the new material - which was written in a burst of creativity last year - Ben wrote it a few years ago, but never recorded it.
It was one evening last summer when he played Tracey some older rough sketches and demos he had on his phone as possible inspirations for the new album. One of them was a version of this abandoned song. As soon as Tracey heard it she wanted to sing it. Ben had originally written it for himself, but never settled on how to record it. Tracey loved the melody and kept it. It took her voice low into her register. She really enjoyed exploiting that tone, bringing out all the resonance of the deep notes, singing it close to the mic, like she was whispering in someone’s ear.
The lyric of the song talks about the kind of character Ben often used to run into during his years of DJing - the guy at the end of the night who is all talk, all full of big wild ideas, dreaming of the day he’s gonna run his own club and be a big shot. But there’s a mixture of bravado and vulnerability in there - a sense that for all his apparent confidence, at heart he’s just a dreamer.
We feel that combination of attitude and emotion is captured beautifully by Samuel, the main dancer in the video, and it’s another example of the kind of mixed feelings that we so often inject into our songs. We’re always drawn to people and situations which are complicated, or which give rise to ambivalent feelings. We love the shifting perspective, the uncertainty, the doubt that underpins so much of what motivates people.
That mix of bravado and vulnerability is present in this photo too - maybe it always is in the photos we like best. The camera is good at capturing fleeting moments, tiny flickers of changing mood."
"Fuse" will be released in just a few weeks. I can't wait. https://ebtg.com/
Here is "Caution To The Wind," another exciting song from the new Everything But The Girl release "Fuse"...their first in 24 years! See their other song "Nothing Left To Lose" here. It's so good to have them back.
In a jaw-dropping surprise announcement on November 2, 2022 via their new Instagram account, the extraordinary duo known as Everything But The Girl (Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, previously here) said they had recorded a new album...the first in 24 years. TWENTY FOUR YEARS! It is called "Fuse," released in April of 2023 and the first single from it is called "Nothing Left To Lose", seen below. And I am a little speechless... Tracey's voice is lower and has a different timbre, and while the music sounds like it's picked right up from their last two albums, "Walking Wounded" (1996) and "Temperamental" (1999), there is an undeniable sense of "now.". It's...just...wow, as an EBTG fan from the very start, it's emotional for me to hear this. "Kiss me while the world decays..."
Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn are Everything But The Girl 2023, Photo by Edward Bishop
Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn are Everything But The Girl 1995
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All-time Favorite Films
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
After Hours (Hysterical, hair-raising ride through NYC at night)
Amelie
American Beauty (Alan Ball)
Baraka (Stunning, transcending—the "spiritus mundi" on film)
Belle et Bete (Cocteau)
Big Sleep, The (The epitome of film noir)
Bringing Up Baby (Hepburn & Grant—the epitome of screwball comedy)
Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, The (Greenaway)
Crash (Cronenberg—DIFFICULT subject, not for everyone)
Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg—ultimate modern gothic horror)
Drowning By Numbers (Greenaway)
Easy Rider
Edward II (Derek Jarman)
Erendira (From magic realist Marquez’ brilliant short story)
Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick's last film)
Fearless (Jeff Bridges—life and death)
Funny Bones (Leslie Caron, Jerry Lewis, and the brilliant Lee Evans)
Holiday (Hepburn & Grant)
Howard’s End (The ultimate statement of the unfairness of class systems)
