Looking at what I have in the ‘queue’ here, were entering into real “where are they now?” territory.
Take this lot – not seen them since the Fence Homegame around 3 years ago (they were practising up a sidestreet so I regard that as a impromptu performance just for me).
Wikipedia tells me what I had heard but forgotten – Michael Angus went on to form Make Love with David Gow (Sons and Daughters) and Colin Kearney (Eska). So there you go.

You might not have heard of the Pretty Flowers, but they were a band who, like The Crucial Three or the London SS, spawned a local scene in Lanarkshire. Teenage Fanclub, The Vaselines, Soup Dragons and the BMX Bandits all had roots in that band.

The BMX Bandits similarly saw many local luminaries pass through their ranks. Including one Sean Dickson (knew we’d get there eventually) who after the Soup Dragons formed The High Fidelity, and whose magnificent sprawling 14 track album Demonstration is still an undiscovered classic. (Namedrop time: Sean is also a very nice chap, I interviewed him in a tearoom in Glasgow – crashing my car on the way. Some day I’ll scan in the article, which was for Go! magazine).

Anyway, the reason for this is partly that the BMX Bandits have a new album out, roundabout now – and Duglas T Stewart has brought Sean, among various other Scottish musicians, back into the fold for what is that band’s 25 anniversary.
More on the Bandits later I’m sure but for now enjoy this, or indeed another cracking video for Change is Gonna Come)

So, I usually try and fill out some preamble at the top of these posts… not got any proper Cocteaus stories, however… I only saw them the once, at Night Moves in Glasgow, where Liz’s voice packed in after 20 minutes. There’s another aside that’s probably libelous so I’ll let that pass… recently spent a while working on the ents pages of the Falkirk Herald, trying to shoehorn in a mention of whatever the ex-members were working on, but everyone else there who either felt they’d lost their Grangemouth connections, or (more likely) had never heard of them…
Anyway, the video below appears to be a fan-produced one, though it’s more interesting that the ‘official’ one for Pearly Dewdrops Drop

I’m not at work – food poisoning, I’ll spare you the details – so I can happily post this, which is NSFW – a bit of swearing at the start, but more that it’s just strange – certainly it’ll get you some funny looks from your boss.
Younger viewers may not recognise the band name, but may have come across Desalvo, who the Stretchheads evolved into.

Back from a week away, where the only music was a comically (purposely?) bad Elvis impersonator. Full review to follow, maybe, if only in an attempt to diversify this blog’s content away from just being a list of bands you’d either never heard of, or had long since forgotten about.
This lot I liked, though their rock direction came as a surprise to a few around the ‘scene’ at the time. I reckon their signing to Beggars also came as a surprise (perhaps tinged with a little jealousy in some cases).
Singer Tom Davis had been in many other bands, and has continued to crop up (current project is Rainbow Fisher).
Oh, and the fact that he is a former itm? writer has no bearing on their inclusion (after all, how many bands don’t sport a former scribe in their ranks? Surprisingly few!)

This is one of those ones, a band hotly-tipped by the press and, we assume, their label (they were on a major). I can’t recall a lot about them, apart from this tune, which (for me) stood out above everything else they recorded.
The sound on the video is a little ‘peaky’ but being live it does show what a great singer Andrew Montgomery (I checked it and I did recall correctly!) was… oh, they were from Aberdeen (I was right about that too – but that’s about all I’ve got for you….)

Well, Youtube successfully trawled, and a load more top tunes lined up for you.
Including this, a rather neat ‘interpretation’ of a track – my favourite ever Ivor tune – from the classic album Jammy Smears.

It would kind of defeat the point of this series if I had actually ‘run out’ of tunes to share after just a half-century of posts. however, I have no more actual songs lined up – I know of plenty I could post but it’s a case of actually finding them on Youtube or whatever and setting up the code etc.
So, I’d intended leaving this lot for a bit later, but needs must (also, did I already post Win and The Nectarine No.9? I believe so).
So, you probably know the genius of Davy Henderson already. Here’s a bit more.

Someone from the Independent on Sunday, I think it was, asked me the other day for 10 bands I thought might ‘break’ in the next year.
I told them that I’d give them 10 bands I liked, because bands that I think should ‘make it’ (whatever that means) invariably don’t.
This lot are one of the biggest cases in point.

Needs no introduction blah blah… although this is from one of Edwyn & pals’ more obscure hit singles – #67 with a bullet as well as being on the Texas Fever mini-album (was it a 10″ Think my copy came on cassette….) anyway, a very scratchy tv appearance presumably from some pre-glasnost soviet channel…