- Music
- 05 Sep 20
As part of our nightly YouTube series celebrating Van Morrison's 75th birthday, Therapy? perform 'Gloria', and Andy Cairns shares his reflections on Van's music.
Originally formed in 1989, Therapy? built up a reputation in the '90s for their powerful hard rock sound. Over the course of their remarkable career, the band have sold over two million albums worldwide – releasing their most recent album, Cleave, in 2018.
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"We had been playing ‘Gloria’ since the band began in 1989. It’s a wonderful song to play in rehearsals, and as younger musicians fuelled by the hardcore scene, its proto-punk relevance wasn’t lost on us. In our version, we’ve applied a Beckettian brio to boil the tune to its barest bones."
Watch Therapy? perform 'Gloria' below:
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