― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link
By the way, "Darkest Ayrshire" is just an expression. If you're from Ayrshire, it all seems dark.
― everything (everything), Friday, 22 September 2006 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link
Maybe I saw one of them wearing a Foetus t-shirt once?
Lugton is a nice little commuter village now. In the Nyah Fearties universe it's the wildest outpost of Scottish civilization.
― everything (everything), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Saturday, 23 September 2006 12:32 (seventeen years ago) link
TS: The Wiseman Brothers vs. The Wiseman Brothershttp://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/944/MI0003944817.jpg?partner=allrovi.comhttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Nyah_Fearties_Band.jpg/1200px-Nyah_Fearties_Band.jpg
― everything, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 16:59 (six years ago) link
I thought they'd only put out one album, didn't realize they'd lasted so long. LOLing at some of their song titles, e.g., "Puddocks In The Mist", my dad being the only person I've ever heard use the word 'puddock' - proving my theory that people from Paisley once used to sound more Ayrshire than Glasgow.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 17:35 (six years ago) link
I'm listening to them now for the first time. This is good raucous demented fun
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
Yeah, a really strong Ayrshire accent - that was part of their mythos which kinda was that their life in a Lugton barn was halfway between Straw Dogs and The Wicker Man. Did they hang around in Paisley much? Other than at actual gigs I used to see them in Kilmarnock and Ayr a lot, busking or at parties. But they traveled around.
― everything, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 18:16 (six years ago) link
I don't remember tbh, but Lugton's like 10 miles from Paisley - I know I know, it seems like another world from the bright lights and sophistication of Paisley...
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
XXXP -
I was brought up in N Ayrshire (Dalry) but all my immediate family are Paisley born and bred and there's definitely a Paisley way with certain aspects of speech and sentence construction that I don't really hear in Ayrshire or Glasgow.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 18 May 2017 11:25 (six years ago) link
Fearties lyrics are the best kind of brutal poetry.
Even just the elegance of:
Made her eat a pun o' cheeseUntil she had a fit
― MaresNest, Thursday, 18 May 2017 11:28 (six years ago) link
Does anybody here know anything about a very early Nyah Fearties appearance on an Ayrshire comp cassette called something like "Free Fall"? Would have been around 1982.I'd love to know more about the cassette (if it existed!). Bands, song names, label, date. A scan would be a godsend...Working on a Scotland discography 1977-84. I had just assumed the earliest NF was a couple years later. But I'd love to get them (the most Scottish band...) in.
― Michael Train, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 00:40 (five years ago) link
Free Fall Vol. 2. Fearties track is called "Rubdown". I don't have a copy.
― everything, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 01:37 (five years ago) link
Davey Wiseman's son's bandhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsTuiaqkyFk
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 01:50 (five years ago) link
Everything—Thanks for the confirmation/lead. Would you possibly have any info about the label or year of release? Interesting that there might have been a "Free Fall Vol. 1" or even 3, 4, 5...
― Michael Train, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 18:03 (five years ago) link
Send me an email via the ilx system and I'll get back to you.
― everything, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 18:10 (five years ago) link