And they can sing, too!

[annathepiper]

So there I am cruising the forums on the Fishtank tonight, when I see a post all about shiny new promo pics that GBS's management company has posted up on their media materials site. This includes a couple shiny new pics of the members of the band, including the one that came over the official mailing list with the announcement about the podcast.

But it also includes a picture that made me go *glrk* on first sight, because... well, I'll let the picture speak for itself.





This is a heavily cropped down, reduced-for-the-web version of this pic. If you want to see the original in all its glory, go here, look over on the right, and click on the second of the yellow icons that say "press photo". And brace yourself. The pic is big. Also, I take absolutely no responsibility for any knee-weakening caused by the eyes of The Doyle at high resolutions.

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

You know, I gotta agree with you. I don't even swing that way and I have to say that's one damn fine looking trio.

[annathepiper]

And, as the subject line says, they can SING too. :D

13 more days to album... 13 more days to album... 13 more days to album...

[angelina-zooma.livejournal.com]

I think I'm going to leave this open on my computer so it's the first thing I see when I get up in the morning :D

[annathepiper]

The scaled-down version, or the big one? ;)

[silme711.livejournal.com]

guh!

Gorgeous pics. Damn good looking I say.

I finally managed to hear the tracks of the new album.
!!!!
Me wants!

[annathepiper]

Do you know when it'll be released in Germany? Or do you have the ability to download in iTunes? (I know it's out on the U.S. and Canada iTunes stores now...)

MUST. HAVE. ALBUM. NOW!

[seimaisin.livejournal.com]

Oh. Pretty. Gah.

[annathepiper]

Now imagine being whapped upside the head with pieces of the big version of that picture when you're reading down a forum post!

(Oddly enough, *glrk* was about the noise I made when we had that Doyle Encounter at the Showbox in 2001, too! Hrmm. I detect a trend on my part. This requires further scientific investigation. ;) )

[lethendy.livejournal.com]

Looks like Bob has been making use of Alan's hair straightener.......

[annathepiper]

Hee! Doesn't it? I'm not quite sure I approve of Bob's new look--I think with the shape of his face these days, he actually looks better with the goatee he'd been having for a while. I miss it!

(But just as long as he plays that wicked smokin' fiddle, I'm good!)

[lethendy.livejournal.com]

Bob, with the new hair and no goatee, reminds me of Stephen Cojacaru!

But yes, I don't care how he looks, as long as they keep making music!

[annathepiper]

Who's Stephen Cojacaru?

And hee. I unrepentantly swoon for Alan, and sometimes also for Sean, but most of my swoonage for Bob is for that stunning ability of his to play a few thousand instruments! I'll be admiring that clear up until the band members and I both are old and gray! :)

[lethendy.livejournal.com]

Steven Cojocaru (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Cojocaru) Forgive my spelling the first time around :s

I used to swoon for Sean. Never really swooned for Alan, although he has a place in my heart for telling me I looked smashing one Christmas :) Have to say I've never swooned for Bob....he scares me a little, even though he's always very friendly when I see him. But his musical talents are tremendous and I do have a lot of admiration and respect for that.

[annathepiper]

*does Google image search* Ohmigod, you're right, Bob's hair DOES look like that gent's now. ;)

Mostly, my swoonage for Sean is musical too. That voice of his, especially belting out the magnificent "John Barbour", is enough to just drop me in my tracks all by itself. But at conversational range, I found Sean quite intimidatingly swoonable last year. As for Alan, well, let's just say he's the first person who ever taught me that that thing you see in novels all the time where a heroine's knees go weak at the swoonability of the hero is in fact physically possible. ;)

But I hear you re: Bob, too. I've had the pleasure of saying a few words to both Alan and Sean in Seattle, but not Bob yet. And I'd have the odd dilemma of his being the one that I'd simultaneously find the easiest and hardest to approach--specifically because he's the quiet one!

But boy, I'd love to ask him bouzouki questions. :)

[mari-mac1109.livejournal.com]

New desktop what...?

Thanks for sharing!

[annathepiper]

Hee! I have a GBS desktop already--I did me a screencap off the Great Big DVD of the B'ys starting on "Lukey", on that little platform surrounded by a sea of adoring fans clapping their hands over their heads. I'd swap it out for this loverly pic, but I'm not sure I could take ongoing exposure to a desktop-sized version! ;) I might combust!

But you are MOST welcome!