#Scottish indie music

[ourmindonmusicpodcast]

The Crom: Scotland's Indie Rock Sensation

The Crom is a celebrated indie rock band from Perth, Scotland, known for their energetic performances and distinctive sound that merges classic and modern rock influences. Band Members The current lineup of The Crom includes: Alan Sweeney: Lead vocals, guitar, synthesizer, and songwriter Frankie Sweeney: Bass guitar and backing vocals Dan Hardie: Lead guitar Lee Fitzpatrick: Drums and…

[liverpoollomo]

The Vaselines. Cavern Club. Nikon F65. Ilford Delta 3200.

Like many people my age I first became aware of The Vaselines via Nirvana who covered a few of their songs on BBC radio sessions and on their Unplugged performance.

I got into position as close to the stage as possible with my Nikon F65 as I had to use the cheap "nifty fifty" lens I had found on eBay for a ridiculously cheap price.

I was quite pleased with how these photos turned out. Although i seem to have captured Francis better.

[britpop-band-shite]

ROUND 1: Blur VS Bis

BLUR

BIS

Okay can I just say this matchup is SUPER unfair. Blur tho (sorry bis)

[blackmarket-playlists]

What an amazing scene! Brand new playlist on Spotify (and you won't find a better overview of the Scottish underground scene anywhere): BEST NEW INDIE ROCK FROM SCOTLAND.

Hand-curated playlist with 150 fantastic bands under the radar mostly and current songs from 2024 only.

Feat. great bands, among others: Heavy Weather, Quaint, Fair, Dubinski, The Rooks, The Paintings, Layaway, Saint Sappho, Burnt Log, SISTER MADDS, The Castros, The Skins, we are delta, Gallus, The Volts, John Hamilton, levengrove, Home For Joy, TEOSE, Pardon, Indoor Foxes, Callum Gibson, Tracers, The Shambles, SLIX, The Azurescens, The Frowns and many more!

Playlistcover: TALKING ABOUT RAY (Glasgow)

Like and save it, give it a spin and support the great music scene in Scotland.

[prinsomnia]

hewo, new #ProjectBluestar🔷⭐️ is out! this time, its a little love letter to me and @erinleemusic's pets 🐱🐱🐶🐱🐱 this is the full art, now you can come listen to the little tune. 👇

►a walk.mp3

#ProjectBluestar is a monthly audio-visual collaboration project between visual artist Ivy Berces (@prinsomnia​) and singer-songwriter and producer Erin Lee (@erinleemusic). Joined by love for their craft, the duo will be releasing monthly bite-sized pieces in the hopes of spreading warmth with every tiny story they’ll collaborate on. #RinVy

If you’d like to support this project, consider purchasing the songs on Bandcamp! 🔷⭐️

[asailorsdrunkeneulogy]

Frightened Rabbit || Death Dream

[indiepopaddict]

CHVRCHES

[the-fratellis-lover]

Creepin Up The Backstairs

She said, "I'm Rosie" I said, "I thought you were Lucy" She said, "No Rosie, I told you so" Was here with your sister But she's going out the back I wanna dance and have fun, y'know Of all the shitty little places I meet you it's here

And I'm freaking out I heard you got a brand new name Selling E's in the dark But hey it's nothing to shout about

Don't just say yes to tease me Do your utmost to please me I don't mean to be sleazy Being you can't be easy

When you're creepin' up the backstairs Mother's nightmares Falling in the front door My, my Climbing in the window Get dressed, let's go Take your brother's car keys Bye-bye

Well, I see your yellow fingers And your crucifix bones All covered in cellophane Was there when your best friend said "Sweetheart, I'm just here to get drunk again" I wouldn't move if I was you I wouldn't wanna caught when the lights go out She said, "You think you're so special" I said, "Sunshine I'm just just bored, I'm just checkin' out"

Don't just say yes to tease me Do your utmost to please me I don't mean to be sleazy Being you can't be easy

When you're creepin' up the backstairs Mother's nightmares Falling in the front door My, my Climbing in your window Get dressed, let's go Take your brother's car keys Bye-bye

Don't just say yes to tease me Do your utmost to please me I don't mean to be sleazy Being you can't be easy

When you're creepin' up the backstairs Mother's nightmares Falling in the front door My, my Climbing in the window Get dressed, let's go Take your brother's car keys Bye-bye

When you're creepin' up the backstairs Mother's nightmares Falling in the front door My, my Climbing in the window Get dressed, let's go Take your brother's car keys Bye-bye

Album: Costello Music Writer: John Lawler (Jon Fratelli)

This is generally one of my favourite songs from The Fratellis and just one of my favourite songs in general. It's really good. If you like rock, indie rock or things like that, then I definitely recommend you listening to it. It's got a really cool drum intro that if you listen to it a couple times, you should be able to recognise it pretty fast, and a really good chorus and lyrics.

[seasidedash]

here's a quick preview of a couple of songs from my new EP! it's inspired by Macbeth (which I will be performing in with my local Shakespeare group tonight as Malcolm)

[existentialcrisistime]

I would like to know more about your favourite Scottish indie/folk musicians, please.

I'm not gonna lie, after nearly twelve years up here I'm still just dipping my toes into the music, so I'm far from knowledgeable, but here's a non-exhauative list of bands & artists I've been enjoying:

Frightened Rabbit — of course, especially the albums The Midnight Organ Fight & Pedestrian Verse. Sad I never got properly into them at their peak, but I very much enjoy them now

Aidan Moffat (of the band Arab Strap) — his song/poem The Copper Top has been on loop in my head lately

One you've most likely heard of — Belle & Sebastian. One of the bands I loved when I moved up here, introduced to me by a friend, and I've still got a soft spot for their older songs now

Ballboy — possibly one of my all time favourite bands/artists, that I've loved for nearly two decades, and I've never met anyone else who knows of them without me introducing them. At least 50% songs mention being unable to sleep, I think, and with the main guy being Gordon McIntyre who I believe has a day job as a school headteacher, that absolutely tracks. Club Anthems 2001 & A Guide For The Daylight Hours are my favourite albums, but I adore them all. I've never seen them properly live, but I did see them play some Mountain Goats covers as part of a charity TMG cover festival in like 2015? and I caught Gordon McIntyre's solo album release gig the other year too (he's still writing songs about being unable to sleep)

Chrissy Barnacle — an artist I've never caught a headline gig of, but I must have caught her supporting at least five different bands over the years (including the aforementioned TMG covers event I believe). Great voice, deserves more than 45 Spotify listeners for sure

The Spook School — I got into these because a friend was/is dating one of the members, but I'm a massive fan now and they're great ! Very queer jangly indie-punk, they've split now (or rather, gone to the moon), but their tunes are excellent and their members are doing some great things individually

Admiral Fallow — I got into these guys purely through Spotify in the last year or so, and I'm yet to listen to their full discography, but the three songs constantly rattling around my brain are: Squealing Pigs (in my head that's an AOS Kirk song too), The Paper Trench, and Guest of the Government

Mogwai — another one you're more likely to have heard of. Definitely more post-rock than indie, or as I like to say, music to lie on floors to. Take Me Somewhere Nice was the first song I heard by them, shown to me by an ex before we started dating (so it must have been good). They also have a song called George Square Thatcher Death Party if that helps sway you. I was friends with I think the bassist's partner for a while (that's the thing about Scotland, it's two degrees of separation with everyone), and I've seen them live countless times. Albums close to my heart are Rock Action, Come On Die Young (CODY), and the Les Revenants soundtrack (an excellent show too)

I'm sure there are MANY more I'm missing, especially the 2010s Edinburgh indie scene that I always used to catch at small gigs and Record Store Day events when I lived there, but hopefully this is a good starting point and an introduction to a few bands you haven't yet heard of!

[davidwilliammusic]

"Strange Comfort" from the 2019 album 'End Of The Strangers'. Available for purchase on Bandcamp and my website.

[gor3sigil]

I urge you to listen to "Hostile Architecture" by Asphenspire.

This is the first track of the album, and it's my favourite.

"Capital’s pre-eminence made matter.

Nailed to the high-rise, under the budgetary hammer.

Do they sleep well, wrapped in irony?

Better that than tangled in austerity.

Better ours than their children in poverty.

Tide over the tampered-with, until it’s their turn;

A corner cut, a penny saved,

Grenfell burns again and again and again!

There’s worse than the pox for all these houses.

The scaffolding holding the bread from their mouths

as it rouses the worker to sell themselves short.

Both foundation and corner-stone

and entirely bereft of support.

If I drink Tollen’s reagent, will I finally shine inside?

And will I see myself as God sees me

If I pour it in my eyes?

Pour it in my eyes.

All’s silent but for the rain;

Weary lungs, asthmatic brain.

And tell me, is this, now, the humour of it?

Some architect’s great satire in prefabricated shit.

The rot and the damp creeping in, every corner

A reflection of the presupposed sin of every presupposed hoarder;

Scrounger! Thief! Gangrenous scab!

If the game’s afoot I’ll gladly lose the leg.

This is not a house of amateurs.

This is done with full intent.

Always three months to the gutter. Never three months to the peak.

Another day to grind your fingers for the simple right to eat.

Always three months to the gutter. Never three months to the crown.

Another deep breath of asbestos in a godforsaken town.

Always three months to the gutter. Never three months to the top.

Another set of fucking homeless spikes outside another empty shop.

Always three months to the gutter. Never three months to ascent.

This is not a house of amateurs. This is done with full intent."

[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday Scots Indie singer Edwyn Collins.

Best known for his tenure fronting the Scottish group Orange Juice as well as his international solo hit A Girl Like You, singer Edwyn Collins was born in Edinburgh on August 23rd 1959.

The family later moved to Dundee, where the lived from the age of six to 14 after his father got a job as a lecturer at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. He attended the now-defunct Demonstration School in Park Place, where new educational ideas were tried out by students and teachers from the adjacent teacher training college, before moving to the secondary school, Morgan Academy

In 1976, he formed the Nu-Sonics, who resurfaced three years later as Orange Juice; the leading proponent of the Glasgow neo-pop scene, the band earned a devoted cult following but little commercial success, and by the early ‘80s Collins was the only remaining founding member, the group hit the charts with the catchy Rip it Up but after a self-titled 1984 release album failed to chart, Orange Juice disbanded, and Collins was freed from his contract with the group’s label, Polydor.

He has since pursued a solo career as a musician, in addition to work as an illustrator, television actor and producer, and as a record producer, he had a worldwide hit in 1995 with A girl like you, which must have set him up for life. In 2005, Collins was rushed to the hospital after suffering a severe cerebral haemorrhage; he would eventually spend six months recovering from brain surgery he has since returned to the studio and recorded again, with the help of many of his musician friends.

I would say he has a cult following, I wouldn’t be surprised if came up with another hit one day, possibly as a lyricist rather than a performer. He won an Ivor Novello Award, the Ivor Inspiration Award, in 2009 and a documentary film about Collins recovery, entitled The Possibilities Are Endless, birth by James Hall and Edward Lovelace, was released in November 2014. Edwin’s 2019 album Badbea, is named after a clearance village just north of Helmsdale, it was nominated for Scottish Album of the Year Award

On 21st August 2010 Collins attended the Helmsdale Highland Games as the chieftain, an honour also previously bestowed on his grandfather.

In ant interview in 1021 he was asked how he was coping during the pandemic, he said “ “taking it easy, relaxing, enjoying the countryside in the car, chilling out, shopping in Inverness, getting my hair cut…”

Last year Edwin was invited onto stae at Hampden park by Coldplay, where he performed his solo hit A girl like you. “The guys were so nice to me,” Edwyn recalled, clearly relishing the memories of that moment.

Though ever the perfectionist, he was quick to put singer Chris Martin in his place when his version wasn’t quite up to Edwyn’s standards!

“Chris Martin sings a few words and then I said, ‘give me that guitar Chris. That’s wrong!’

Eighteen years on from his stroke, Edwyn is recording a new album and working on perfecting his live performance skills, which he admits can still go awry.

UI was going to play footage of the Hampden gig with Coldplay, but the fan filmed visdeos are poor quality, so here's the offiicial vid of the song.

[blackmarket-playlists]

New Scottish Shoegaze 💥 Cover: PUPPY TEETH • Emerging and/ or unsigned artists • Current songs only • Updated regulary. Submissions welcome: www.blackmarketplaylists.de

[davespwite]

some of the people on this website are so fucking toxic for no reason like dont you realize you would be right at home on twitter. like this is just one blog i stumbled across and there are at least 5 things wrong with the person running it

[sounds01014]

"Orange Juice - Falling And Laughing (Something Else: Soho, 06.11.1981)"