BBtv: Russell Porter interviews The Rumble Strips (music)

Posted by Xeni Jardin, September 5, 2008 10:46 AM | permalink

BBtv's London-based music correspondent Russell Porter brings us a performance and interview from the Rumble Strips (website | MySpace | Wikipedia). They're currently on tour throughout the USA, and they're named after a UK-English term for the "small, continuous lines of bumps along the edge of a road." Their music is described as " Soul / Regional Mexican / Powerpop;" a fine, rockin' way to close out a short Labor Day work week. Previous BBtv music features with Russell Porter are here.

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#1 posted by Anonymous , September 5, 2008 11:00 AM

"Rumble strip" for the bumps at the side of the road is a perfectly fine US English term as well, at least where I'm from (Michigan).

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#2 posted by pork musket , September 5, 2008 11:01 AM

I don't see how "rumble strips" is a UK-English term. We have rumble strips all over the place in the US and we call them just that.

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#3 posted by pauldrye , September 5, 2008 1:26 PM

Likewise here in Canada: Rumble strips.

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#4 posted by Anonymous , September 5, 2008 4:51 PM

Great to see these guys getting some recognition =) Cool interview and props!!

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#5 posted by error404 , September 5, 2008 6:55 PM

I must protest.

In fact in Ye Olde Englande, they are known as "Percussive Margins" and play God save the Queen when you drive over them at 57 mph in ones horseless carriage.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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