A special thanks to Arnaud Roelens for notifying me that The Ladybug Transistor revamped their website a few months back, with videos, rare MP3s, and blog posts from different members of the band. Included therein is an MP3 of Gary Olson’s duet with Marit Bergman, “Sun Goes Down,” plus “Always on the Saxophone” (an alternate version of “Always on the Telephone”), a live cover of David Bowie’s “Life on Mars,” Olson vocals for a Stuart Murdoch (Belle & Sebastian) demo, even an excerpt of a David Cross concert where he riffs on the band, who’d just opened for him. Among these mini treasures is this video, for “Always on the Telephone,” which I’d completely missed and should have posted here back in November–sorry! Here it is at last, from their last album Can’t Wait Another Day, and directed by Isobel Knowles. Be sure to watch it to the very last second.


The Ladybug Transistor – Always on the Telephone