Arab Strap: The Week Never Starts Round Here (Vinyl LP)

The Week Never Starts Round Here contains arguably Arab Strap’s best-known song, ‘The First Big Weekend’, which they wrote during a B-side session after the album was supposedly finished.

The first single by Aidan Moffat (voice, drums) and Malcolm Middleton (guitar, bass), ‘The First Big Weekend’ brought the Falkirk duo to the attention of DJ John Peel, whose enthusiasm for Arab Strap’s frank songwriting and unadorned instrumentation in turn helped introduce the group to an audience beyond the circle of friends for whom The Week Never Starts Round Here was intended.

1. Coming Down
2. The Clearing
3. Driving
4. Gourmet
5. I Work In A Saloon
6. Wasting
7. General Plea To A Girlfriend
8. The First Big Weekend
9. Kate Moss
10. Little Girls
11. Phone Me Tonight
12. Blood
13. Deeper