MONTGOLFIER BROTHERS
Think Once More – A Journey With The Montgolfier Brothers NEEDLE MYTHOLOGY
Far more than just hot air.
One of the nicest surprises on David Gilmour’s masterful Luck And Strange album was the cover of Between Two Points, sung with plaintive beauty by his daughter Romany. For many, it would be their first introduction to The Montgolfier Brothers, one of the great secrets of millennial pop. Between Two Points was one of the standouts from their 1999 debut album Seventeen Stars, and a fitting tribute to vocalist Roger Quigley, who died in 2020 at the age of just 51. Gilmour assumed that it was a well-known song when he heard it: his version took the Brothers’ original to 199,000 plays on Spotify from the 25,000 it had prior (Gilmour’s has over nine million, stats fans). The new version was meat and drink to journalist and longtime Montgolfier fan, Pete Paphides, who has compiled this two-LP collection of their best work for his Needle Mythology imprint.