Arab Strap have handed an official video to the reworked version of ’The First Big Weekend’ which is soundtracking the duo’s return from ten years on the subs bench.
There’s also now an extra reunion show at the Glasgow Barrowlands on October 16th to go with the original night there on the 15th and other shows in London and Manchester.
“I think the day we went to the pub and split up, we made a joke about Arab Strap getting back together in 10 years’ time to celebrate,” Malcolm Middleton told Steve Lamacq on BBC 6Music upon their comeback’s announcement. “So that’s basically what this is: a chance to enjoy the music we made once more.”
“We wanted to celebrate it while we’re still relatively young and don’t look too embarrassing on the stage.”
Arab Strap began laying their independent path on the 1996 album ‘The Week Never Starts Round Here‘ and split in 2006 a year on from their sixth studio LP ‘The Last Romance‘.
