Music / 2003

Trying to Ride a Donkey

The least-played single from V. Strange. Twenty years later: the opening track of a Billy Reeves album.

Released
9 May 2003
Type
Single
Label
Rubato Music
Formats
Promo single

Tracks

  1. Trying to Ride a Donkey

The video: directed by Onni Tappola. Filmed in Leppävaara on 31 May 2003. Discolite / Sue called it “melodic to the point of squander”.

November 2023: Billy Reeves (Theaudience) released a cover as a single. April 2024: it opened his album Steve – A Weekend in Egham 1966 (Last Night From Glasgow). The album made the charts. #13 on the Official Scottish Albums Chart. And the UK newcomers chart. Watch it.

Embers in the dark