title: Pissing on Bonfires / Kissing with Tongues
text: # Pissing on Bonfires / Kissing with Tongues
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | Is this music? | (favourable) |
  | The Skinny | |
  | The Scotsman | (favourable) |
  
  Pissing On Bonfires / Kissing With Tongues is the debut studio album by Scottish indie folk band Meursault, released in 2008 to a generally positive reception from the music press and online community critics. The band initially self-released the album in 2008, before a second run was released on the Edinburgh-based independent label, Song, by Toad Records, in 2009.
  
  ## Personnel
  
  ### Meursault
  
  * Chris Bryant
  * Fraser Calder
  * Calum MacLeod
  * Neil Pennycook
  
  ## Cultural references
  
  * Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit has often performed A Small Stretch Of Land; taken from Pissing On Bonfires / Kissing With Tongues and written by Neil Pennycook, during his live appearances. He also said that inspired Poke and that it was a "perfect" song to him that he'd wish he'd written.
  * The BBC selected The Furnace for heavy daytime rotation on Radio 1 as part of their promotion of the corporation's coverage of Glastonbury 2010.
  * Scottish arts and culture magazine The Skinny placed Pissing On Bonfires / Kissing With Tongues sixteenth in its list of the best Scottish albums of the 2000-2010 decade.
  