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

As often happens when I occasionally start threads, seeing the responses helps me to understand what it is that I was actually trying to get at. As mentioned, by Glasgow, I meant Glasgow and nearby towns. By 'strong connection to', I now realise that, in addition to meaning bands/musicians from that area I also meant bands/musicians who emerged from Glasgow's music scenes. I think we're pretty much there though.

Essentially, I'm trying to find out more about what Glasgow is like. I've lived here for a long time and don't feel like I know it very well at all. So, long aimless walks while listening to music that has emerged from the city and its surroundings seems to me like one useful way of getting to know it better.

I stay in Mount Florida and I didn't know Bobby Gillespie was from there

How are you coping with the violence and deprivation?

And yes I’d agree Deacon Blue probably nailed the Glasgow experience with Raintown (xpost)

Ricky Ross is from Dundee!

Pretty well tbh. There was someone shouting in the street outside my flat a while ago but I hid until they went away

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNYMdxe62fY

Check out the Vazz compilations on Stroom. They're lovely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws3KsA_pIj8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a5KBm5xJrM

Some more recent Glaswegian minimal wave (minimal weeg?) on Optimo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNHfrVyrl3A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiBQ6Sg_TG8

Some techno from Dave Clark from Kubler Ross

:)

Lung Leg - Kung Fu on the internet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCRos1vydm8

Ganger - Jellyneck

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

paolo, his da drinks in minnesota fats

I've never been in there because I'm too much of a hipster :(

No way you're hipper than R. Gillespie Sr.

as someone originally from East Kilbride I can assure you it lost its links to Glasgow long before I was born and JAMC and Aztec Camera most certainly are EK not Glasgow.

and most folk identify from the schemes they live in not the town/city they reside in

Yes, thanks. We went into that further up the thread and I've clarified that by Glasgow, I meant Glasgow and nearby towns. By 'strong connection to', I now realise that, in addition to meaning bands/musicians from that area I also meant bands/musicians who emerged from Glasgow's music scenes. I'm about to see if I can get the title changed to reflect this

no worries neil, i wasnt having a go at you

ok, thanks

For real controversy you should get it changed to 'Strathclyde' bands, lol.

This thread is hilarious proof how parochial we are up here innit. I dont think we ever grow out of primary school behaviour.

I'm sure if you did the same thing for Yorkshire or somewhere you'd have exactly the same results.

I mean, associating the Cocteau Twins with Glasgow is a bit like saying the Smiths are a product of the Birmingham music scene.

^Is there a U.S. equivalent to this? (specific band/city)

I'm sure if you did the same thing for Yorkshire or somewhere you'd have exactly the same results.

i dont doubt it.

except with Essex since half of Essex claims to be Cockney!

^Is there a U.S. equivalent to this? (specific band/city)

You mean, like New York singer songwriter, Bruce Springsteen or something?

I was wrong about the Cocteau Twins. Let's move on.

This thread is hilarious proof how parochial we are up here innit.

I think I'm actually trying to be more parochial, in a positive way.

xp or saying Dino Jr / Sebadoh were part of the “Boston scene”; or calling Modest Mouse a “Seattle band”?

Surely that happens in the US!

I've never been in there because I'm too much of a hipster :(
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it's actually not too bad. I mean you're only getting tennents but w/e.

the mala carne-, object company-, mount florida studios-adjacent hipsters all drink in there

Let's celebrate our shiny new thread title by keeping on topic. There are other places for Glasgow pub chat. Glasgow pubs, for example.

see there's now a glasgow-themed pub in buenos aires
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glasgow-themed-pub-opened-doors-17882297

I wonder how many of the tartan army who stayed behind in 1978 are still there

found this in a second-hand shoap (in Vancouver) on sunday

https://www.discogs.com/Glen-Daly-Live-At-The-Ashfield-Glasgow/release/2326881

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