Bands/music from, or with a strong connection to, Glasgow and nearby towns S/D (mostly S rather than D tbh)

No Sydney Devine or Lena Martell?

sadly not, I love a bit of steak and kidney.

Fran and Anna used to attend the same chapel as me when i was an adolescent.

Ayrshire is severely lacking in musical progeny, bloke from Stealer's Wheel, bloke from Pallas, bloke from Belle & Sebastian (stayed there for a while, i"m told), terrible punk bands, one of Nazareth maybe? Idk, who else?

If you're trying to get to know a place through its music, shouldn't you be listening to stuff like the fratellis and del amitri and shite like that as well as bis or whoever?

Weirdly this is the most Glasgow-y tune I can think of, not because I like it much, but in the mainstream in Scottish music all that 'denim jacket and quiff' music was happening in the mid-late 80s and that was when I was growing up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KostJs1qRTo

bloke from Stealer's Wheel

Both from Paisley. Unless you mean the drummer or something.

Oh, I thought Joe Egan was from Largs, my bad

St Mirin's Academy old boys!

where were long fin killie from? i know luke grew up on orkney but i think they formed in glasgow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OYrpbfAYks

if you like ganger then you might like el hombre trajeado

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKXeLQFAouU

I'm guessing Glasgow, Luke was in a band called Fenn before LFK with the indefatigable Richie from Stretchheads and for about an 18 month period it seemed like they supported *every* single American band playing Glasgow, I saw them so many times.

ha there's a band like that in every scene, when i was living in manchester in the late 80s there was always this band called flea (two shouty men and a drum machine, like big black with a staff shortage) who supported seemingly every US band that played in the boardwalk, or if it wasn't them it was the slum turkeys (same deal, but with longer hair iirc)

Fenn! i hazve been trying to remember that for ages. Thanks!

They were good actually, kinda indie grunge, very Glasgow 1990, King Tuts, supporting Midway Still kinda thing.

While we're on the subject of Luke, if anyone has the CD-R of a band he was in for 5 mins with Jer from Dawson and a few others (maybe Howie from El Hombre too) called 'Shlebie' I'd love to hear that again, lost my copy in a house move.

of all the dumb things I've seen on ILM, this - from that Best of Glasgow poll - is unquestionably the dumbest:

Teenage Fanclub 0

i saw them several times but can't remember anything about their music.

x post

I can't find anything about them online but I reckon I'm getting the spelling wrong.

Increasingly feel the most interesting Glasgow music of the past few years is that which doesn't telegraph its "Glasgow-ness" - whatever that means - too much. And there's always a risk of falling into authentocracy/parochialism/nativism when trying to define it.
The Glasgow indie traditions of the 80s and 90s - whether it's twee indie pop or dour post-rock - feel increasingly played out and the further away we get from them the better tbh.
The stuff GLARC has put out over the past few years has been great, especially Still House Plants, Bamya, Quinie and Horse Whisperer. https://glarc.bandcamp.com/
Comfort absolutely rule and should be getting way more attention than they have so far.
That soft issues tape on Penultimate Press is grrrreat.
Cucina Povera, Helena Celle, Mercuro Chrome, Fritz Welch, Tony Bevan, Caroline McKenzie, Kapil Seshasayee, Stable...
Also intrigued by the mysterious graed. Anyone know who it might be? https://www.lowcompany.co.uk/products/decibels

el hombre were good. rm hubbert fae el hombre is v good too, tho i never kept up with him when he started doing stuff with aidan fae arab strap (I'd probably enjoy it).

im going to try and get more up to date with glasgow stuff, that list will be very helpful, stew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDa14HUiscg

Strawberry Switchblade - Trees and Flowers

A pleasure Jim. Howie from El Hombre is still doing lots of interesting stuff, as is Jer from Dawson, P6 from Stretcheads et al. I do feel the official narrative of 90s Glasgow has tended to write out those guys, mainly cos they didn't enjoy the same commercial success as their peers and are harder to fit into the narrative, but they're such energetic and supportive figures.
Luke Sutherland's current band Rev Magnetic are worth checking out and he's done some improv stuff with Tony Bevan, Jer Reid et al. Great musician!

still fucking love this song...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67rn5rUBbP4

Telstar Ponies - Farewell, Farewell

xx-post soft tissues that is! Soft Issues are a noise/punk band from Leeds.

another good folky one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A204YG53ZRg

Trembling Bells - Willows of Carbeth

Shelagh McDonald was Glasgow based wasn't she?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP15bKvUpdw

Dick Gaughan - Craigie Hill

does anyone know that crazy rave record about celtic, possibly specifically about henrik larsson? i'm looking at you stirmonster - i think eclair fifi played it on her nts show once? i might be misremembering one or more of the details on this mind you

Oh God, lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQDxQKxsKvc

FUCK YES!!!

oh boy tune is everything

*that*

Shelagh MacDonald and Dick Gaughan both Edinburgh

i think shelagh was born in edinburgh but moved to glasgow, and dick was born in glasgow and then moved to edinburgh. so yes and no!

I would rather hang out with Nadine Dorries than have to listen to that Henrik Larsson tune.

haha!

Glasgow Post Rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH18U_AcAGM&feature=emb_title

Dick Gaughan is about as Edinburgh as it's possible to be.

I dunno what this kind of music is but it's lovely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQRRAJ4XxIQ

I think it possible to be more Edinburgh than Dick Gaughan.

tom has seen dick taking a slash iirc so i'll take his word on this one

maybe he has some sort of edinburgh tattoo on his cock - once a year by the castle *boom-tish*

sorry

I can't find anything about them online but I reckon I'm getting the spelling wrong.

thread redeemed by henrik tune

Henrik tune is a pure tune btw

XXXP - Thanks Tomboto!

Cant believe theres no DJ Rankin or DJ Badboy in this thread yet