"There's a Boa constricting my Heartstrings"



"We only live for so long, and then the moment's gone". I couldn't have put it better myself. The line is from Boa, the B-side of Pegasus Bridge's last single release, and it really helps to explain why the band are sadly deciding to break up.

I think the most unfortunate thing about their final single release is that the two songs are by far the best that Pegasus Bridge have ever done. And that's not saying their other works left a lot to be desired; I loved their music from the very start. Between Succubus, cricket clubs and teenage angst way back in 2003 all the way through to receiving a free copy of Endscene at Poulton-le-Fylde station as I said goodbye to my ex-girlfriend three years later, I followed them excitedly. Then even after that, I couldn't stop listening to We Can Go Back and I'll Let You Know while I was lost at university, feeling alone and stupid on my degree course. I even got asked to play I'll Let You Know in Blackpool, it was ace. Probably the first and last time I'll be on stage.

While I presented a show on my college radio, I used to love getting their new songs, certain that there would be no stopping them. Pegasus Bridge would be the next Pigeon Detectives. I admit that after university, I didn't support them as much as I should. I missed gigs and didn't buy their album, While We Were Young, straight away, I think I was jealous that these guys seemed to be having so much fun together. And I still don't really think Yoko is as great as some of the other songs they have toiled over. Paris, for instance, still gives me shivers as the lyrics "If I loved you, it'll be the worst thing I could ever do" come thumping powerfully out of the speakers.

After those last eight years; the loves, the heartbreaks, the discovering, the growing up, the new loves and heartbreaks, the making new friends and the unintentional falling-outs with old friends; I feel that this single (Heartstrings/Boa) marks the moment when we became grown-ups. Heartstrings especially is so haunting and the melody on While We Were Young seems to drift through the song like a memory surfacing of an adolescent life that is quickly sinking into the murky depths of our internal timelines.

It is sad that the band seem to have only just found their unique sound now, distant and sorrowful but with up beat and catchy hooks to sing along to. I can only hope that solo careers and new bands are on the cards. You never know, they may be picked up my Glee in future years and remembered like Journey.

Pegasus Bridge is dead. Long live Pegasus Bridge.

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