This is a tricky one. The video is from a lager advert, and only lasts a minute. The actual single – which people kind of forget about – is three minutes of should-have-been-a-hit pop genuis. (The band grew out of Fire Engines and eventually became the Nectarine No. 9).
The video is brilliant as well – there must be a story there, surely whoever made it went onto greater things? (Anyone?)
So here’s the ad version (sadly it’s from the 80s so not great quality):

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Saw this lot the other night, supporting Happy Particles. Their album, maybe 10 years in the making, got some criticism for being a bit underpowered. Which I can see the argument for.
However, this is one of the real oldies, done in the new style. I quite like it…

This is maybe the longest tune/video I’ve featured so far. Esperi is the stagename of Chris Lee-Marr, a Dundonian multi-instrumentalist who I think I first saw live at Wickerman 4 or 5 years ago.
There are a few videos of him – including a very funny one which sadly features too many dogs for my liking – but this captures what his live shows are like given that he tends to build loops up to eventually create the full band sound you can hear.
(Actually, I’ve not seen him live for a bit, could well be that he’s got lazy and just hires in loads of musicians instead. Probably not though).

I got thinking about this lot last night at a gig with Jesus H Foxx – an earlier incarnation of that band supported this lot ages ago (I mean ages, maybe 10 years back? I have no idea where HG#1 are now, I might post on the Jockrock forum and see what happens – probably very little!)
Couldn’t find anything from their fine debut album online either, but as it happened this is well worth sharing, even if it sounds quite far removed from their old sound (this is actually not unlike current plat de jour, Happy Particles – who were headlining last night).
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Summer’s here, temporarily, so what better song title and indeed tune?
This is from 1997 or thereabouts, certainly that was the year that this track snuck into John Peel’s Festive 50.
I’m not actually sure what my favourite Goldfish song would be, but this will do nicely.

Someone said the other day that this lot had reformed for a one-off show. If that’s the case I shall be very annoyed indeed.
There’s surprisingly few videos online of the Edinburgh/Fife/Holland 4/5/6 piece – I would have chosen ‘Church of John Coltrane’, but the only one I can find is of one I made myself at Tigerfest with attendant dodgy sound. So this is actually the one most people know them for given that its subject was involved to the extent that they got themselves on the 6 o’clock news and the like.

Stretching the bounds of what is ‘Scottish’ here, but if Team GB can claim our finest tennis player then we can put a kilt on Berwick’s finest Continue reading →

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Funny story – for ‘technical reasons’ I’m not even sure which Rabbit tune this is Continue reading →