Jack Bruce
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Saturday, 7 March 2020 00:28 (four years ago) link
Yesterday, I walked from Battlefield, where I live, to Cambuslang
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51HAsTvrNUL._AC_SX466_.jpg
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Saturday, 7 March 2020 00:50 (four years ago) link
Lest we forget Γire Γg, whose seminal album "Live at the Brazen Head" is the Sgt. Pepper's of rebel music
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 7 March 2020 02:09 (four years ago) link
tbh had never listened to the Battlefield Band before, can't see the wood for the trees etc, but they're good - it's the Tannahill Weavers next for me...
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Saturday, 7 March 2020 10:37 (four years ago) link
Kode 9 and the spaceape - Not from GlasgowJesus and Mary Chain - Not from GlasgowCocteau Twins - Not from Glasgow
― stirmonster, Saturday, 7 March 2020 17:49 (four years ago) link
tbf Neil was very clear that he was not listing bands from Glasgow
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Saturday, 7 March 2020 20:03 (four years ago) link
He said from or with a strong connection to tho
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 7 March 2020 20:09 (four years ago) link
Vince Watson
And hi, I live in Shawlands
― the article don, Saturday, 7 March 2020 20:29 (four years ago) link
Konx-om-panx
― the article don, Saturday, 7 March 2020 20:33 (four years ago) link
'zat no' yon Giacinto Scelsi fae Carntyne?
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Saturday, 7 March 2020 21:08 (four years ago) link
... ran a chippie in Cranhill?
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Saturday, 7 March 2020 21:12 (four years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/u06_CD6s7GsTEfH5b-jm05kF31s=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3457933-1331143312.jpeg.jpg https://img.discogs.com/XbGf6wDB7uv0scKTuuSLMP0VW3Y=/fit-in/600x598/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3936239-1414080723-8161.jpeg.jpg https://img.discogs.com/Bl1AP-P3UKIRo1-pCruLGzm-ync=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2326881-1367679941-6213.jpeg.jpg
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Saturday, 7 March 2020 21:26 (four years ago) link
... available at all charity shops in the West of Scotland.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Saturday, 7 March 2020 21:27 (four years ago) link
he specifically said music made by people from or near to or connected to Glasgow, not bands from Glasgow
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Saturday, 7 March 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link
Kode 9 and the spaceape - Not from near to or connected to GlasgowJesus and Mary Chain - Not from from near to or connected to Glasgow
― stirmonster, Saturday, 7 March 2020 22:01 (four years ago) link
Kode9 was born in Glasgow, the Reid brothers grew up half an hour from Glasgow and probably walked around it as teenagers going to record shops (it took me at least an hour to get into the city as a teen, and nobody in Australia would argue that I wasn't "from Sydney").
Neil is just looking for cool recommendations of music to listen to while walking around the city, and openly soliciting ones that are better than the examples he's started with!
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Saturday, 7 March 2020 22:21 (four years ago) link
In the UK I don't think anybody would seriously say you're "from" somewhere an hour away, there must be at least a dozen very distinct cities that distance from where I grew up.
― Dunty Reggae party π (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 7 March 2020 22:30 (four years ago) link
Christ, the distinction even between Paisley and Glasgow (a few miles apart) is huge.
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 7 March 2020 22:41 (four years ago) link
Is there music that very openly telegraphs a feeling of Glasgow? or did Deacon Blue nail that back in 87?
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 7 March 2020 22:43 (four years ago) link
Start The Yummy Fur revival
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 7 March 2020 22:52 (four years ago) link
my bad. was a poor cut and paste. meant to say - Cocteau Twins - Not from from near to or connected to Glasgow.
I'm mainly just joshing actually, but as an East Coaster but long time resident in Glasgow, I can't have Glasgow laying claim to the Cocteaus.
East / West coast Scottish music rivalry is a serious business! Kode 9 got his music enducation in Edinburgh for example. :)
― stirmonster, Saturday, 7 March 2020 22:56 (four years ago) link
I know Neil said he was open to debate, just trying to nudge ppl back towards recommendations as well as shouting him down :)
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Saturday, 7 March 2020 23:01 (four years ago) link
that said though for Noodle
there must be at least a dozen very distinct cities that distance from where I grew up
yah, it depends on what you count as a city. Australia is 7.7 million square kilometres and has maybe nine of what people think of as "cities*," most of which are 2-7 days apart. Scotland is 30 sq km and has two cities, joined by a 45-minute train. Glasgow is definitely the closest proper city to the young Reids! and probably more of a musical epicentre for their formative years than East Kilbride.
(* by English standards of population size and local character and architecture and ethnographic makeup and distance nine or ten Sydney "suburbs" would probably count as cities. and we have city councils for hundreds of places that people don't count as cities mentally)
((the furthest-out suburb in Sydney, an extra Penrith, has a population of 200,000 and is a city on paper. The Australian city of Perth has a population of 2 million, vs the Scottish one's population of 47,000. My local member's electorate in inner-west Sydney - three stops from Central - is the smallest in the country, has a population of 150,000, and is 32 sq km.))
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Saturday, 7 March 2020 23:17 (four years ago) link
Yeah I get that, it was kinda my point. Having never been to Australia I picture it as huge and empty compared to here where two villages a mile apart will have been thinking of each other as alien territory for a thousand years or more. It's not a numbers thing, it's a bizarro state of mind.
― Dunty Reggae party π (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 7 March 2020 23:21 (four years ago) link
Indeed, just try calling someone from Paisley a Glaswegian.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Saturday, 7 March 2020 23:25 (four years ago) link
Scotland is 30 sq km and has two cities, joined by a 45-minute train. Glasgow is definitely the closest proper city to the young Reids! and probably more of a musical epicentre for their formative years than East Kilbride.
There's more than two cities in Scotland. And, I can assure you, absolutely no-one in Glasgow at the time considered JAMC a Glasgow band
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Saturday, 7 March 2020 23:28 (four years ago) link
They looked kind of corny and provinicial, needed Boaby G pretending to play drums to give them some Glasgow hip credentials.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Saturday, 7 March 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link
In Glasgow if you're from an hour out you're a teuchter. I've been called a shire boy despite growing up half a mile from the city limits
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 8 March 2020 00:49 (four years ago) link
There's more than two cities in Scotland.
He knows that, it was just awkwardly worded.
Anyway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkupC8B_FQw
― Alain the Botton (jed_), Sunday, 8 March 2020 00:49 (four years ago) link
sic's point was that the two biggest cities are 45 minutes apart but that he had to take an hour or more to get to Sydney but still considers himself to be from there.
― Alain the Botton (jed_), Sunday, 8 March 2020 00:51 (four years ago) link
Should point that folk love lawyering glaswegianiaty and I dont think anyone is being a wideo to the thread starter
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 8 March 2020 00:53 (four years ago) link
Right, because comparisons are so easily made between Scotland and, er, Australia! I was just looking up some population stats on Australia and, not only does Scotland not compare to Australia I'm not sure anywhere does - 90% of Australians live in cities, 40% in Sydney and Melbourne alone and the five largest cities are bigger than any city in the UK except London.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Sunday, 8 March 2020 01:05 (four years ago) link
Meanwhile, I was up visiting my sister, who lives in Lochwinnoch, and she was telling me how you can tell people who are from Kilbrnie because they have Ayrshire accents - Kilbirnie is 4 miles from Lochwinnoch.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Sunday, 8 March 2020 01:10 (four years ago) link
I realized I wasn't in Paisley anymore when, on driving into Lochwinnoch, the first road sign I noticed said 'Caution: Otters'.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Sunday, 8 March 2020 01:19 (four years ago) link
Yeah I have a different accent from my buddies and family from baillieston and garrowhill etc. tho that's 4 or 5 miles from where I'm from
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 8 March 2020 01:53 (four years ago) link
I really love this EP from The James Orr complex aka Christopher Mack on Rock Action:
http://rockaction.co.uk/releases/1878/figa_ep
I couldn't find the one that I like a lot called "slip into slumber", sadly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KlQuhl-L9s
― Alain the Botton (jed_), Sunday, 8 March 2020 02:11 (four years ago) link
iirc I met him once in fopp and told him I liked that EP a lot. I think he moved to Brazil.
― Alain the Botton (jed_), Sunday, 8 March 2020 02:13 (four years ago) link
neilasimpson, If you can find that EP called Figa I highly recommend it.
― Alain the Botton (jed_), Sunday, 8 March 2020 02:15 (four years ago) link
Hasn't Neil lived in Glasgow for 14 years? If he cannae stand up for himself by now he is truly up shite creek without a paddle.
Anyway, there is probably nowt as Glaswegian as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rQ6BBc8f6Y
― stirmonster, Sunday, 8 March 2020 02:32 (four years ago) link
Hamish Imlach (Born in Calcutta but not Paisley so probably OK)
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 8 March 2020 03:23 (four years ago) link
I wouldn't be so sure given the utter cuntyness up there. What a toxic thread.
― Alain the Botton (jed_), Sunday, 8 March 2020 03:29 (four years ago) link
The James Orr Complex guy did move to Brazil. He had previously played in Eska which was a good Glasgow band. They (eska) did a reunion gig about 9 year ago which I attended very drunkenly. They were supported by remember remember (solo show), dude from remember remember was also I'm mutliplies who were a good early 00s Glasgow band
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 8 March 2020 03:35 (four years ago) link
sorry jed but hands up, I was being cheeky. however Inverness is a medium-sized town and I can't be told otherwise! I can assure you, absolutely no-one in Glasgow at the time considered JAMC to be a Glasgow band
β Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Sunday, March 8, 2020 10:28 AM (two hours ago)
well sure and nobody's really arguing tha-
β Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Sunday, March 8, 2020 10:29 AM (two hours ago)
Haud, whit's this then? The wee drummer cunt who cannae move his arms in thon leather jaikit's fae Mount Florida, aye? If that doesnae make him "folk from, or with a strong connection to, Glasgow" then [&c &c, all apologies]
I realized I wasn't in Paisley anymore when, on driving into Lochwinnoch, the first road sign I noticed said 'Caution: Otters'
this is beautiful btw
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Sunday, 8 March 2020 04:07 (four years ago) link
awful horrible thread.
― Alain the Botton (jed_), Sunday, 8 March 2020 04:25 (four years ago) link
the Lochwinnoch/Kilbirnie divide is insane to me, I went to school in the catchment area that straddled the split and the hatred on either side is visceral
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 8 March 2020 06:54 (four years ago) link
As you're the only one who thinks so, I'd recommend going elsewhere.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Sunday, 8 March 2020 10:00 (four years ago) link
Holl' ah never said Boaby wisnae fae Glesga, he grew up the in the buckfast strewn gangland o' Mount Florida efter aw.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Sunday, 8 March 2020 10:08 (four years ago) link
Many thanks for the recommendations. Let's see if we can get back on track and focus more on bands than geography. How about we say that we're talking about bands from or with a strong connection to Glasgow or towns nearby, as covered by this map - http://mapsof.net/uploads/static-maps/road_map_of_Glasgow.jpg.
― neilasimpson, Sunday, 8 March 2020 10:12 (four years ago) link
Assuming this doesn't cause any issues, I'll see if I can get the thread title changed to avoid further confusion.
― neilasimpson, Sunday, 8 March 2020 10:16 (four years ago) link
Simple MindsChina Crisis
And yes Iβd agree Deacon Blue probably nailed the Glasgow experience with Raintown (xpost)
― the article don, Sunday, 8 March 2020 10:19 (four years ago) link
tom has seen dick taking a slash iirc so i'll take his word on this one
― ymo sumac (NickB), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 23:25 (four years ago) link
maybe he has some sort of edinburgh tattoo on his cock - once a year by the castle *boom-tish*
― ymo sumac (NickB), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 23:27 (four years ago) link
sorry
I can't find anything about them online but I reckon I'm getting the spelling wrong.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 00:21 (four years ago) link
thread redeemed by henrik tune
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 08:05 (four years ago) link
Henrik tune is a pure tune btw
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 08:12 (four years ago) link
XXXP - Thanks Tomboto!
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 10:19 (four years ago) link
Cant believe theres no DJ Rankin or DJ Badboy in this thread yet
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 12:55 (four years ago) link
More Glasgow post rock - https://soundcloud.com/lcasioimmunitas. And, I posted that Ganger track further up. Probably worth posting at least twice though
― neilasimpson, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 14:15 (four years ago) link
ah, sorry for the double post. fits in well with all my other double posts. :)
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 14:16 (four years ago) link
Slight bias but current fave new Glasgow bands.
https://soundcloud.com/optimo-music/optimo-music-digital-danceforce-023-pleasure-pool-night-scars-ep
https://soundcloud.com/optimo-music/om-44-d-resili-cups-mini-album-sampler
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 14:18 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEz4_X7tshg
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 15:14 (four years ago) link
Really enjoying this thread now. Thank you all!
― neilasimpson, Thursday, 12 March 2020 17:04 (four years ago) link
Asparagus Piss Raindrop - https://asparaguspissraindrop.wordpress.com/
― neilasimpson, Thursday, 12 March 2020 17:07 (four years ago) link
Stumbled across a website for The List, which seems to have an entire browsing archive.
Made me a wee bit nostalgic upon seeing the music listing section circa '91, the days when Barky Barky and Hugh Reed and the Velvet Underpants were playing every week somewhere.
https://archive.list.co.uk/the-list/1991-11-22/40/
― Maresn3st, Monday, 4 May 2020 13:56 (three years ago) link
I don't think anyone's mentioned Sacred Paws yet
― paolo, Monday, 4 May 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
Gentle Giant don't quite count.
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Monday, 4 May 2020 21:15 (three years ago) link
I'd never heard of Pub until his Do You Ever Regret Pantomime? album was reissued recently. It's very good ambient/IDM/electronica, recommended if you like Boards Of Canada
― paolo, Friday, 3 July 2020 10:36 (three years ago) link
Does anyone not like Boards Of Canada? I've never met anyone who doesn't
― paolo, Friday, 3 July 2020 10:37 (three years ago) link
See the BoC thread.
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Friday, 3 July 2020 10:38 (three years ago) link
Most of their tunes are underdeveloped vignettes,drum programming is leaden and unadventurous. I mean I quite like them but they're not unimpeachable
― Temporary Erogenous Zone (jim in vancouver), Friday, 3 July 2020 10:58 (three years ago) link
Pub was new to me to! I kind of hate Borads of Canada but i like that Pub record
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Friday, 3 July 2020 11:19 (three years ago) link
was sold from the moment i saw the cover tbh
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2108186735_10.jpg
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Friday, 3 July 2020 11:21 (three years ago) link
New to me too,will check it out
― Temporary Erogenous Zone (jim in vancouver), Friday, 3 July 2020 11:22 (three years ago) link
That is an extremely Scottish image
― paolo, Friday, 3 July 2020 12:00 (three years ago) link
https://unclejohnwhitelock.bandcamp.com/track/aleister-crowley
― sean gramophone, Friday, 3 July 2020 14:29 (three years ago) link
Jascob Yates - https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/track/michael
― stirmonster, Friday, 3 July 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
just went on a stray google and discovered you did that record with him in 2018!!
― sean gramophone, Friday, 3 July 2020 14:32 (three years ago) link