The Fratellis – Live At Pinkpop – VPRO-3FM – 2007
After a three year hiatus, The Fratellis got back together in June 2012 and released their third album We Need Medicine, embarking on a series of gigs to promote the album in 2013.
The Fratellis played their first show since 2009 to raise money for the Eilidh Brown Memorial Fund on 15 June 2012, marking nearly 3 years since they last shared a stage together. They then performed at O2 ABC Glasgow on 26 September 2012 and announced a UK tour in April 2013. During the UK tour, 3 more songs were debuted live; “She’s Not Gone Yet But She’s Leaving”, “Seven Nights Seven Days” and “Whiskey Saga”. The band went on to perform dates in Oxford, Leicester and Sheffield with another date at Loopallu festival, forming a small September tour. During the tour, the band debuted 2 new tracks, “This Old Ghost Town”.
On 4 February 2013, the Fratellis finished recording their third album, which was to be called We Need Medicine with a release date of 7 October 2013. “Seven Nights Seven Days” was released as a single on 29 September. The album was recorded in Glasgow with Jon Fratelli and Stuart McCredie on production duties. The band saw out 2013 with a successful tour of the US, UK Need Medicine album campaign with two shows in Russia in September 2014. In 2014, the band played festivals across the world, returning to the US, UK and Europe and also headed over to Japan before finishing the We Need Medicine tour.
In 2017, the band headlined posts since 30 April, the band confirmed on Instagram that they were in Los Angeles to record their fifth album with Tony Hoffer once again producing.
On 29 September 2017 the band announced the Vicar’s Picnic music festival 14–15 July, as well as the Lindisfarne Festival, which ran 31 August to 3 September.
After speaking with fans after his solo shows in February 2019, Jon stated that the band were heading to LA in April/May to record their sixth album, once again with Tony Hoffer. On 9 May, the band posted a photo on their social media accounts with the caption “#6”. Jon had stated that the band intended to take most of 2019 off after having an extremely busy 2018, with only a few Fratellis shows played along with two of his own shows for his solo album Bright Night Flowers, which he released in February 2019.
As a refresher course over what you may have missed, or if you’re just getting acquainted with the band, here is a concert they did from the 2007 Pinkpop Festival in The Netherlands, recorded by the venerable VPRO and archived for posterity.
As you can hear, The Fratellis are a rather high-voltage band. It would no doubt do you a lot of good to crank this puppy up, since it is a holiday after all.
Thanks Wikipedia for the update (to 2019).
