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In This Issue: St. X is at Maketewha 1 St. Andrews Ball Is At Maketewah! Opening a PDF 2 *Schedule of Events 2 veryone aspires to have at least Black WIlliam 3 a little fun and play in their life. CSHD 3 EAt Maketewah, it’s members Cinti Highld Dancers 3 and guests have a place that lets them do just that — play through life. Stirling Reopens 4 Maketewah is one of the premiere *Resource List 4 private country clubs in the Midwest. Out of the Sporran 5 Founded in 1910, it’s stately and Scotch on the Rockz 6-19 elegant clubhouse was completed *Email PDF Issue only 7-19* in 1930 and serves as the social center for Maketewah’s outgoing and Band/Marching Units 14* supportive membership. Maketewah takes pride in exceeding guests’ expectations not only in golf, but also in providing a unique dining experience. Guests PAY YOUR DUES! can enjoy a variety of dining options Don’t forget to pay your current at the club, from fine dining to dues. 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The 2011 Caledonian Calendar Sep 10-11 Columbus IN Highland Games www.scottishfestival.org Sep 10 Ligonier PA Highland Games www.ligonierhighlandgames.org Sep 23-25 Cincinnati Celtic Festival, Fountain Square www.ligonierhighlandgames.org Oct 14 Fall Meeting - Maketewah Country Club www.caledoniansociety.org Oct 22 Murray Highland Festival, Murray KY www.wkyhighlandfestival.com Nov 26 St. Andrews Ball, Maketewah Country Club www.caledoniansociety.org 2012 2 2012 Annual General Meeting—Members www.caledoniansociety.org May 12 Kentucky Scottish Weekend, Carrollton, KY www.kyscottishweekend.org 2011 Falling fifty pound leaf??? FALL I really need a Meeting good dram! Friday, Oct 14, 2011 @ 6:30 pm in The Legends Room at Maketewah Buffet dinner, Coffee, Tea, and Soft Drinks. Cash Bar is available.

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hichever way you look at him loathed by all. Stories began to gathered, and de Soulis was about to it, William de Soulis seems circulate that he practiced the Black be lynched when Alexander Armstrong, Wto have been an unpleasant Arts, kidnapping local children and Laird of Mangerton, advised de Soulis man. Stories combine deeply evil using their blood in dark rituals at to return to his castle. De Soulis was deeds, supernatural horror, and an Hermitage. During these rituals, de far from grateful, instead developed a especially gruesome but fitting ends Soulis would summon monsterous, hatred for someone who was his social for the villain. Some versions of Black Robin Redcap. A Redcap, also known inferior, and had demonstrated the William are based largely on a ballad as a powrie or dunter, is an evil goblin, power to influence the crowd. William popular in the Borders in the 1700s. typically found in Scottish folklore in then invited Alexander Armstrong to In 1318, William de Soulis, be- ruined castles along the border areas. a banquet at Hermitage, and when came Lord of Hermitage. Today’s Once summoned, they roam the area, he arrived, stabbed him in the back. Hermitage Castle is a hauntingly killing anyone in order to keep fresh Complaints about de Soulis’s activities oppressive and bone chilling place. the bloodstains on the Redcap’s hat: were frequently reaching King Robert Bill’s first tale, is a historical one. because if these stains dry, the Redcap the Bruce himself, and when he was In 1320 William de Soulis took part dies. Redcaps are very quick, despite told of this latest outrage, Bruce, he in an English-inspired plot to kill their metal-bound boots and reaper cried “Soulis! Soulis! Go boil him in From Hawick, Robert the Bruce. It failed, and the they carry. The only way to escape one brew!” The locals then nabbed de Hermitage Castle is participants were rounded up, with de is to quote a passage from the Bible at Soulis, using a specially forged chain only 7 miles away. Soulis being imprisoned in Dumbarton it, whereupon it loses a tooth. to bind him, as ropes couldn’t stop his It can prove to be a Castle, where he subsequently died. But William de Soulis himself black powers. It was believed that he very long 7 miles... A second version says, William one day in 1320, kidnapped a young could not be killed by ordinary means, and last... to you till de Soulis was a huge and physically Armstrong woman and tried to return so he was boiled in molten lead in a the grave! powerful man, and when he became with her to Hermitage. When her cauldron suspended above a large fire. Lord of Hermitage, he rapidly had a father tried to stop him, de Soulis Take your pick which story you deep vein of cruelty that quickly had killed him. By then a crowd had prefer, but... he’s dead in all of them! n

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he Cincinnati Scots Highland Dancers Thave had a wonderful summer of travel, dance and fun. The summer kicked off a fun week to Oberlin Ohio for the Ohio Open Championships with awards for Arran Bowen, Rachel Speigel, Meredith HD dancers have had a great spring and summer Speigel and Erin Wilshire. competition season. The rest of the week was C In preparation for St. Andrew’s night we are going to spent at the Ohio Scottish be holding 2 practice nights to review the Country Dances that we Arts School. will be doing on the evening of St. Andrew’s. These will be held at The crew then headed the Allegro Dance Arts Studio, 502 Old St. Rt. 74. Mt Carmel, 45244. to Grandfather Mountain There is no charge for this event, feel free to bring a bottle of wine for a week of fun, practice (or other beverage) and an appetizer to share if you wish. And we and intense competition. can make a fun evening of it. Dress is comfortable casual as we will Erin Wilshire won the be spending the evening dancing. Feel free to contact me with any Pre-Championship and National trophies with Meredith Speigel questions. finishing 1st Runner-up at both respectively. Erin and Meredith Dates: Sunday Oct. 16th at 2pm and Friday Nov. 18th at 7pm finished 1st Runner Up and 2nd Runner Up respectively at the Atlantic International Championships. Also if needed we can open up Celtic Corner for any last minute The Wilshire and Gentry families then headed to Spokane WA shopping, as the store is connected to the dance studio. for the United Stated Championships. A week of fun, dancing and Robert Reid, 513-444-4920 [email protected] meeting with friends from all over the US was spent. Erin represented Studio/Store, 513-528-5578 www.CelticCornerStore.com the Southeast region, her 5th time qualifying for this prestigious championship. Directions: Competition season ended at Columbus Indiana where all dancers From 275 take the Rt 32 exit toward Newtown. First light take a came home with medals. left on Old St. Rt. 74. Follow past Krogers and you’ll see the Celtic Arran Bowen is the daughter of member Dr. Dan Bowen. Rachel Corner sign out front and the Allegro Dance Arts sign on the building and Meredith Speigel are the granddaughters of member Bob Greer. just across from the VFW hall. Parking in rear. Erin Wilshire is the daughter and granddaughter of Past Presidents Also, remember the Royal Scottish Country Dancers of Cincinnati David and Gordon Wilshire. will also be will also be holding their regular practices on Wednesday The best part of highland dancing is the fun and nights, 7:30 at Pleasant Ridge Presbyterian Church, contact Jill Cole, friendships made along the way. Come Join the Fun- n 631-2429 for information. n

For instruction or performance information, contact Missy For more information on our group please contact Louise Reid at 3 Gentry at 859-466-7937. 513-528-5578 or email [email protected]. Contact Billie and Jesse at 513-574-2969 for further information. A Revamped Stirling For directions go to http://www.maketewah.com/directions.html. Castle Reopened The HeraldScotland 5 Jun 2011 - 6:00 pm 30th YEAR in Spring

he royal palace at Stirling Castle has reopened after a £12m refurbishment T The royal palace at Stirling Castle has reopened following a £12 million refurbishment to restore it to its 16th century glory. More than five years of research has gone 2012Come’on out May 12th for THIRTY! into the restoration project, to return the palace Come to 2012’s Kentucky Scottish Weekend to the way it would have looked during the (KSW)! Come to Gen. Butler State Park in 1540s when it was the childhood home of Mary Carrollton, KY and you’ll find a wee bit of Scotland. Queen of Scots, after it was built for her parents For directions go to: http://mapq.st/fJvfxR James V and Mary of Guise. The revamp includes four giant tapestries Advance Weekend Tickets* General Admission* and the installation of replicas of the Stirling New Prices TBA (at the gate) Lower Prices TBA Heads, carvings which date from after 1530. **SPECIAL** Family Pack (New Prices TBA The Stirling Heads were originally installed *Download coupons at: www.kyscottishweekend.org/ in the ceiling of the King’s Inner Hall and 34 of downloads/coupon.pdf the 37 originals have survived since they were removed from the palace in 1777. We able to serve alcohol now! They depict historic figures of the royal court and have become known as “Scotland’s other crown jewels”. The official opening of the palace will be marked by around 60 performers, many of them Your Caledonian Resource Guide experts in aspects of 16th century living, who will converge from across Scotland and England * to perform at the castle this weekend. Caledonian Society H. C. Sheriff: Stephen Watt 946-2296 Gillian Macdonald, Stirling Castle executive www.caledoniansociety.org Emerald Society: Jeff Winkle 885-9700 President: Rex Wolfgang. 779-7320 manager, said: “Our weekend of celebrations Country Dancing (RSCDS) will feature some of the best and most rawolfgan@aol.com Recording Secretary: James Reilly 602-9300 Cincinnati Branch: Jill Cole 631-2429 entertaining costumed performers in Britain. [email protected] Flying Ghilles: Doreen Bernstein 937-845-0310 “They will be putting on some wonderful Business Secretary: Robert Reid 444-4920 Heather & Thistle: Laura Russell 614-447-0620 displays covering everything from fashion, food, [email protected] www.rscdscincinnati.org Non-RSCDS: John Southcombe make-up, music, jesting and dance through to Newsletter: Bill Parsons 476-1112 872-2222 dark plots, military displays, cannon firing and [email protected] Scholarship: Chris McLennan 531-3388 Highland Dancing and Instruction sword fights. CHD: Louise Reid 528-5578 “But right at the heart of it all will be the Pipe Bands [email protected] wonderfully refurbished royal palace, which Caledonian Pipe Band: Rob’t. Reid 444-4920 CSHD: Melissa Gentry 859-356-5889 we are opening to the public again after two www.cccpandd.com/ [email protected] years during which it has been completely Solo Pipers: Contact any pipe band redecorated and furnished. Visitors will step Radio Programs of Celtic Music Wed: WOBO* (88.7 FM) right back into the 16th century and discover 12 - 3 p.m. 724-3939 Hosted by Jesse Andrews all the colour, beauty and political intrigue of a Sun: WNKU (89.7 FM), 4 - 6 p.m. 859-572-6500 Scottish royal palace.” Hosted by Cathy Costello (Clip and Save!) The celebrations got under way Sun: WOBO* (88.7 FM), 6 - 9 p.m. 724-3939 with a procession featuring performers Hosted by J. D. McEwans—Celtic Fusion *Can’t get WOBO? Go to WWW.WOBOFM.Com and stream to your PC posed as Mary of Guise, Mary Queen 4 of Scots and the royal party. n Out of the Sporran: A collection of happenings... in the current Scottish World Brad Pitt saves zombie crush girl—A Hero on Glasgow’s, World War Z Set By ROBERT McAULAY 8/26/11 ollywood hunk Brad Pitt was she could believe it when Brad an assistant director ordered them to hailed a hero last night for picked her up. “tangle with the army guys”. Hrescuing a stricken extra who “He didn’t have time to speak The mum of two kids involved said: was knocked to the ground on the set to her as it was mid-shoot. But she “This is a nightmare – I’m so worried of World War Z. said afterwards how grateful she was, about their safety.” More than 700 actors were packed despite having a badly-grazed knee.” Last night the source claimed Brad, into Glasgow’s George Square to film The source added: “Loads of extras who plays UN expert Gerry Lane, and chaotic scenes amid heavy gunfire suffered bumps and scrapes during director Marc Forster were concerned when the drama occurred. the battle scene. There was no training about the number of injuries. The As crowds of extras fled the film’s or choreography before the chase on insider said: “We’ve been extremely terrifying zombie invasion, the woman Wednesday morning. An extra playing conscious about health and safety, but stumbled and fell. a soldier was even hit by a moving car, unfortunately accidents on a shoot like She faced being trampled by ending up on the vehicle’s bonnet, but this do happen. But the director and Brad Pitt on the set Brad are slightly concerned about the of his new zombie hundreds of people surging through fortunately he escaped unhurt. amount of injuries we’re racking up. film World War Z... the streets during Wednesday’s “Everyone was knackered, The recentlt save a mayhem. including elderly men and women and “They’re urging everyone to be as young woman from But caring Brad grabbed her and young children, after they had to run careful as possible. There was a big being trampled hauled her back on to her feet. in opposite directions again and again health and safety talk saying too many during a particularly The incident emerged as it was until the producers were happy.” Film people were being injured.” freinzed scene revealed that dozens of extras have bosses yesterday gave staff a health Yesterday actor and director Peter in Glasgow’s suffered injuries including broken and safety pep talk following a string Mullan was spotted visiting the George George’s Square. bones, cuts and bruises during filming. of incidents this week. Square set. Last night a set insider revealed: In Grangemouth, an extra driving He took pictures on his mobile “It was total chaos as 700 extras a lorry was hospitalised when a phone and waved to fans as he checked were trying to get down the street boom camera smashed through the out the filming.n – they were banging into moving windscreen, causing severe whiplash. Read more: http://www.thescottishsun. cars, cameras and military who were And in another incident, a woman co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/ carrying heavy machine guns. broke a rib during a Glasgow shoot. 3776571/Brad-Pitt-saves-zombie-crush- “Lots of people hurt themselves, Yesterday, at least ten extras girl.html#ixzz1WoWcuC6l and Brad came to the rescue of a – including children – were sent flying woman who slipped. I don’t think during a scene with squaddies, after

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Scotland’s 100 best rock and pop albums

By Alastair McKay

e’ll get the jokes out of the which led to the invention of way first, shall we? Trying bluegrass, and hillbillies, and country Wto determine the 100 best music, and Dolly Parton, which Scottish rock and pop albums of all would be true in some senses, and time is a logical impossibility, like ridiculous in others. Or you might, voting for ourRockz hundred best summers, if you were feeling generous, accept or the all-time healthiest Scottish the evidence of Johnny Cash’s family The Proclaimers are twin Scottish dishes involving a deep fat fryer. tree, and concede that the great man’s brothers Charlie and Craig Reid of Well, denial is an appropriate size 13 footprints can be found, under Leith are Mega-Scottish hit makers. response. It is a habit of that tremulous landfills of Armoury Show albums, in organ, the Scottish psyche, to cut the ancient turf of Fife. down anything that tends towards But all of this is too modest. Without wishing to spoil the boastfulness. As a country, we have There was a man, Sir Harry Lauder: suspense, the BCRs are unlikely to been defined by our limitations for our one true world star, but a man feature high in our top 100 because so long that we have grown fond of whose name is now associated with their success - global Rollermania, five em. We inhabit a conundrum inside a national embarrassment and a road gold albums in the US - was based cave. We are both intensely proud of which bypasses Portobello. Harry not on music, but on some sort of our culture, and intensely suspicious was the highest paid entertainer in hormonal tsunami. It mystifies now, Annie Lennox Grammy of grand gestures. As a people, we are, the world in his time - around the and it mystified then, but - to borrow Award Winner and I think, comparable to the Monkees, Great War - and his couthy kilticisms the get-out of every baffled critic - the native of Aberdeen. a manufactured pop group whose and knobbly crook have come to little girls understood. theme tune was so busy boasting that embody everything we profess to hate In any artistic audit, there is a it had something to say that it never about the way we are perceived. We problem of perspective. Rock, or pop, got round to mentioning what that may cringe now at Roamin’ in the or whatever the cheap music of the something was. Gloamin, I Love a Lassie or - how day is calling itself, aims for urgency. But let’s forget that bashfulness painful to even type these words - Timelessness comes later, and is subtly for a moment and try the T-shirt for Stop Your Tickling, Jock, but there was different to greatness. In a British Tune in, size. Scotland has made a significant a brilliance to Lauder which few have context, the late 1970s were hailed as contribution to rock and pop music. matched. Lauder was our Al Jolson, a the time of punk rock, a phenomenon Turn on and How does that sound? As a sentence, kilted minstrel who took folk material that was more social than musical. At discover a little too bald. Significance is a fancy and added a shameless brand of the same time, unheralded by critics, hat, and it’s hard to argue that this showmanship. pop was in the throes of a fabulous Scottish wee country has ever done anything Harry, though, was 50 years too revolution, disco, and the little people, Culture’s more than borrow the bold clothing of early. His music, when it wasn’t uneducated by the aesthetic tsars of others. Who is our Robert Johnson, our heard live, was rendered on a hand- the NME, were rising to acclaim the recent rifts. Charley Patton, our Memphis Minnie, cranked Victrola. Our survey is about one group which can claim to rival Scotland our Elvis, our Little Richard, our Fats albums, a form that really grew to the Beatles: Abba. And no, there is Domino? Where is our Aretha, our fruition after the first hormonal flushes no Scottish Abba. The Scottish Donna indeed does Otis, our Hendrix, our Dylan? Who, of rock’n’roll had begun to subside. Summer, since you ask, is Kelly Marie. ROCK!!! amongst our tremulous west coast You can hear the first crackles of If there are the beginnings of a balladeers, can really hold a candle that electrical storm on one of Andy critical consensus about the artistic to the wonky genius of Brian Wilson’s Stewart’s singles - Donald Where’s value of Scottish pop, its architecture Beach Boys? (Clue: not the BMX Yer Troosers, I think - when the guitar will, to an extent, depend on the Bandits). Who are our Beatles, our suddenly rips into a solo that might age, and perspective of the person Rolling Stones? Who did we have that have been played by Scotty Moore making the list. Older artists of great could match the Clash, the Sex Pistols? (if Scotty had been unwrapping a significance may have fallen out of Where, lord help us, is our Kylie? McCowan’s toffee chew and got it vogue. Who now praises the late Well, a historian might point to the stuck under his fingernails). And Lonnie Donegan, the Glasgow- fact that - via the sawstroke bowing of you can see remnants of Lauder in born King of Skiffle, whose urgency 6 Neil Gow - we exported the old fiddly- the tartan trim on the hand-sewn impressed the Beatles, but who is diddly to the Appalachian mountains, uniforms of the Bay City Rollers. remembered mostly for the novelty Rantzen, and who overcame public his lyrics, which are just the most ridicule to win two Grammies twisted thing. The places he went, (including one for Best-Mexican nobody went...” American performance), record a Inevitably, our chart will infuriate. Bond theme, duet with Prince, appear Fans of Rod Stewart, for example, on Broadway and in Las Vegas, and will be miffed to discover that he star in a horror movie directed by has been excluded on the grounds John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper? For that he was born in Highgate, North Sheena, the answer came when she London, (though he could, by virtue found herself booed at Glasgow’s Big of his Scottish parents, play for our Day in 1990. national football team). David Byrne And what to say about Donovan, (ex of the Talking Heads) misses out whose sweet, wobbly folk so readily too, despite spending the first few Shirley Manson, from and horror of My Old Man’s a encapsulated its time that it sounds, months of his life in Dumbarton, Scotland is the front- Dustman and Does Your Chewing now, like a transmission from a and receiving The Broons annual for woman for the band Gum Lose its Flavour on the Bedpost particularly flowery corner of Mars? Christmas throughout his childhood. GARBAGE. Overnight? To some extent, these are the A chart with Stewart and Byrne in it Who now listens to Stone the wrong questions. One of pop music’s would look very different. Crows, or their iron-lunged singer most appealing features is its refusal There is, it transpires, much to Maggie Bell, unless the theme from to respect national borders. In a past celebrate, and in the process of Taggart is playing? And, while we’re life, I wrote for a magazine called compiling the long list from which thinking about Taggart, what about Cut, which started with the idea of our top 100 was derived, it has the Sweet, that great, ridiculous promoting Scottish music, but was been a pleasure to be reacquainted glam-rock band, who looked like forced, by commercial and aesthetic with the operatic strangeness of hod-carriers in Bacofoil trousers, and reality, to reassemble its priorities. The Associates, and to discover whose frontman, Brian Connolly, Latterly, it considered all pop through that Billy Mackenzie’s solo album was the half-brother of Jim Taggart Scottish ears, the best compromise. Outernational has matured on the himself, Mark McManus? Thinking like this also allowed for shelf; to hear, afresh, the lush T Does a Scottish singer qualify some appreciation of the deviations Rexisms of Win’s Freaky Trigger, the a “foreign” band for inclusion? In of taste which occur within our small fey delights of Orange Juice, and to the case of Garbage, it seems to: country - soul has always done well check that Surf by Roddy Frame still and fairly, since that group’s cold in Dundee; US West Coast guitar sounds as good as it did last year. (It electronica is brought alive by the groups go big in Glasgow; Aberdeen does). personality of its frontwoman, Shirley was the first place I ever saw the Revisiting these dusty grooves Manson. Turn the kaleidoscope the word “house” used to describe a was a reminder, too, of a great many other way, and consider Lloyd Cole. disco. nights out. There was the Rezillos Without the Commotions, he is an On a recent visit to the United firing water pistols at the crowd at the English singer whose digestive system States I was asked - in a guitar shop Edinburgh Odeon, Billy Mackenzie has yet to fully dissolve the lyrical in Mississippi - about the late Big crooning at the Assembly Rooms, roughage of Lou Reed and Leonard Country guitarist Stuart Adamson, the Fire Engines speeding through Cohen. Add the Commotions, and a player whose reputation abroad a 15 minute set at Valentino’s, and stick Lloyd in context as a graduate of seems to outweigh his status at Mike Scott’s Another Pretty Face Glasgow University in the mid-1980s, home. And, in one of those rambling hammering away in the spirit of and Rattlesnakes becomes a snappy, late night conversations that seem the Clash at the Hillhead Halls of literate reminder of everything that to go nowhere and everywhere, I residence, Aberdeen. While dredging, was good about Glaswegian pop at found myself having to explain to I also uncovered memories of my Have you a time when Glaswegian pop was a baffled American the meaning of second ever concert: Nazareth at the remembered supposed, not entirely erroneously, to the word “haver”, 10 years after the Edinburgh Odeon - tickets courtesy be the bees’ knees. Proclaimers had a US hit with I’m of a Radio Forth competition - after to pay your Cole may have retired to the Gonna Be (500 miles). which I ran like the wind to catch the manicured golf courses of the The influence of Scottish acts North Berwick bus, feeling slightly 2011 dues!!! American midwest, but his albums can be found in surprising places. tainted by the knowledge that I had Contact with the Commotions are a high-tide Glasgow’s Vaselines were seen as smelled (but not smoked) a jazz mark of a brand of jangly pop that rudimentary post-punkers here, but cigarette. Robert was nurtured on the Postcard label by something about them appealed to And, I was put in mind of the Reid if you Alan Horne, and which led - through Kurt Cobain, and two of their songs good bands who never released Orange Juice and Aztec Camera - to made it onto Nirvana Unplugged. LPs. The Poets are one - and they haven’t. a club of freaks which includes the The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, were important enough to inspire a Pastels, Teenage Fanclub, Travis and too, caused ripples around the world. James Kelman play. And why didn’t Belle and Sebastian. Temporarily out Nick Cave’s first band was a Harvey the Valves record an LP? Whatever of favour, but an important stop on covers band, and the singer feels that happened to the album the Visitors this branch line, are Del Amitri, who SAHB had an uncommon influence were recording with Wire? Why did made the mistake of a) becoming in Australia, possibly on AC/DC, every Edinburgh band in the late popular and b) growing beards. (whose singer Bon Scott, was born 1970s play on a PA borrowed from Where, though, to place Sheena in Kirriemuir). Harvey, Cave told me Mowgli and the Donuts? Easton, the Bellshill bauchle who recently, “was where it was at ... and Reading other people’s lists was transported to global success the band were extraordinary. As a kid - thank you Simon Frith and Eddi by her appearance on a starmaking I never knew what a f***in’ Scotsman Reader - has alerted me to the fact 7 documentary helmed by Esther was, let alone had I heard one and that Michael Marra had a record out in 2002, called Posted Sober. Marra is the unsung laureate of Scottish songwriting, but his records have suffered from unsympathetic production. Perhaps this time he has made a record which adequately displays his talents. Perhaps now a bright TV producer will put him in a pub with a piano and film the result. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps. Perhaps, I am reminded, is an album by The Associates. Not their best, but it does include Waiting for the Loveboat. Excuse me, records to play.

The Panel—To compile the Top 100 Scottish Rock and Pop albums, The Scotsman polled over 50 musicians and critics (and one music-loving culture minister). The Top 100 albums have been annotated by Brian Hogg, author of The The group Average White band came History Of Scottish Rock and Pop: All out of Scotland in 1972... has members That Ever Mattered. from Dundee, Perth, and Glasgow.

Look for 1 SCREAMADELICA your St. PRIMAL SCREAM A nod to psychedelics past was revealed was cut for This Is The Story (1987). The Andrew’s Ball Formed in the summer of 1984, Primal on the mesmerising Slip Inside This bulk of this album - recorded in just nine Scream’s early history revealed a House, first recorded by Texas outlaws days - was left similarly unadorned; a purity invitations chameleon-like quality. First releases the 13th Floor Elevators, but the highlight which emphasised their unreconstructed starting in boasted a beguiling 12-string chimera, but was probably Higher Than The Sun, a accents and a call-and-response vocal style this direction ended after Sonic Flower spaceward interpretation of the ambient which echoed Sam and Dave. It also allowed October. Groove (1987) and the defection of co- dub of producers Joe Gibbs and Lee Perry, the plaintive melodies space to breathe. Reserve the founding guitarist Jim Beattie. underscored by Jah Wobble’s curving bass Make My Heart Fly and It Broke My Heart Primal Scream (1989) showed a realigned lines. Screamadelica remains a triumph and benefit from this freedom, as does the wry date on your band besotted with Detroit brats the justifiably sits proudly at No1 in Scotland’s lyricism of The Joyful Kilmarnock Blues. A calendar. Stooges and MC5, but vocalist Bobby greatest rock and pop album chart. cover of George Jones’s (I’m Gonna) Burn Gillespie viewed such changes as a learning Your Playhouse Down is equally telling, as curve. By 1989, the singer had become 2 their love of country music allows them to enthralled with the rave scene at Brighton’s THIS IS THE STORY explore such roots in a nominal soul song Zap Club and Shoom, and discovered a THE PROCLAIMERS and in the process breathe an alternative seemingly unlikely ally through a mutual Groomed on Beatles’ songs and country life into an established classic. However, the love of Thin Lizzy. DJ Andy Weatherall music while in their teens, twin brothers real strength is found in Craig and Charlie’s was then invited to remix a track from the Craig and Charlie Reid emerged during the songwriting, which, aided by a singular Scream’s second album. I’m Losing More rise of punk with a brace of bands, the Hippy vision, lies at the heart of the Proclaimers’ Than I’ll Ever Have was stripped down to Hasslers and Black Flag. A handful of gigs attraction. guitars, conga and brass and reassembled in Fife’s mining towns ensued but, sensing using various musical samples and two of a musical cul-de-sac, they left for Edinburgh 3 Peter Fonda’s lines from the biker film The where, over the next two years, the Reids AWB (AKA THE WHITE ALBUM) Wild Angels. The result was Loaded and not wrote songs reliant on acoustic guitars, AVERAGE WHITE BAND only had Primal Scream found a host of new harmony and melody. By 1983, their notion When the Average White Band was formed possibilities, work on Screamadelica had of what the Proclaimers should be was fully in 1972, a decade of Scottish aspirations begun. The gospel-influenced single Come formed, and the duo began performing live. were encapsulated within. Musicians from Together followed in 1990 and, over the An acquaintance passed on a demo tape to Dundee, Perth and Glasgow had come ensuing year, the band assembled a sybaritic the Hull-based Housemartins, who invited together, bringing a range of contrasting album drawing influences from house and the Reids to contact them during a Round experiences. Alan Gorrie and Owen “Onnie” dance culture, acid rock and 60s iconoclasts. Table broadcast on Radio 1. A support slot McIntyre brought Roger Ball and Malcolm Screamadelica opened with Movin’ On on a national tour ensued, but it was a “Molly” Duncan (the Dundee Horns) on Up, a throbbing Rolling Stones pastiche memorable appearance on Channel 4’s The board. Drummer Robbie McIntosh, returning which was mixed and post-produced by Tube which introduced the Proclaimers to from Italy, joined them, before the final the Glimmer Twins’ former mentor, Jimmy a national audience. Here they previewed piece of the jigsaw, Hamish Stuart, slotted Miller. Further Weatherall collaborations, Letter To America, a nominal homily to into place. A first album, Show Your Hand, I’m Comin’ Down and Shine Like Stars, Scottish migration, but which politicised was highly promising and the group was continued the blend of melody and sound brilliantly by closing with a litany of places shocked when their label, MCA, dropped sculptures, while Inner Flight brought to struck by economic blight. A big-band them. Stranded in New York, they secured mind the Beach Boys, with a chord sequence version, produced by Gerry Rafferty, reached an appointment with Atlantic MD Jerry 8 recalling those of Pet Sounds. the Top 3, whereas an acoustic reading Wexler, and by the end of the meeting had Editor’s Note: This feature on Scotland’s Best 100 Rock and Pop Albums came from http://news.scotsman.com/100bestscottishalbums/Scotlands- 100-best-rock-and.2470411.jp

Care to gift a deal. With Arif Mardin as producer, AWB say both groups drew from similar wells. London, securing a record deal in 1965. completed this wonderful album. For all its many highlights, the cumulative Bert Jansch is, unquestionably, one of the to Caledonian Riffing horns, tough rhythms and criss- charm of Banwagonesque is the secret of its most influential albums of its era, inspiring causes? crossed vocals fire up a succession of attraction. artists as diverse as Jimmy Page and Neil sublime original songs, including Nothing Young. It includes a rivetting reading of Donate to the You Can Do, You Got It and Person To 6 Davey Graham’s standard, Angie, as well Scholarship, Person, which unashamedly stand beside SOLID AIR as several stellar Jansch originals. Among a fiery reading of the Isley Brothers’ Work JOHN MARTYN the strongest were the obligatory On The Prize, To Do. The set confirmed, not just an Released in 1974, Solid Air was John Road allegory, Strolling Down The Highway, General and empathy with black music, but how it could Martyn’s sixth album, including two in Do You Hear Me Now, Courting Blues and translate into a sound held in common and collaboration with his then wife, Beverley. Needle Of Death, a deeply personal homage Building not simply emulated. The White Album Aided by a concise backing unit, including to a departed friend. With dazzling guitar Funds. topped the US R&B and pop charts, while long-standing partner Danny Thompson work, Bert Jansch is a masterpiece. the ebullient Pick Up The Pieces did the on double bass, the singer created a set Contact Ted same in both corresponding singles lists. distilling his past and pointing to the future. 9 McGregor for By then, however, the band had lost Robbie Stylistically, Over The Hill suggests earlier THIS IS THE SEA details and McIntosh to heroin. Nothing would ever be folk recordings, where Martyn’s reading THE WATERBOYS the same for this group, but what a fabulous of Skip James’s I’d Rather Be The Devil The third Waterboys’ album, This Is The the benefits statement to make. is a showcase for his trademark slurred Sea, was released in 1985. It consolidated a of gifting. vocals. May You Never has become the period when the band’s live shows achieved 4 album’s best-known track, thanks to Eric near-mythical proportions, inspiring Mike A WALK ACROSS THE ROOFTOPS Clapton’s cover, but it is on the title track Scott to create material of similar projection. BLUE NILE which Martyn excels. A moving plea to the When combined with the singer’s almost Paul Buchanan, Robert Bell and Paul Joseph doomed singer and friend, Nick Drake, its ethereal perspective, this resulted in a Moore met in 1980. A single, I Love This open structure allowed space for a deeply compulsive collection, notably on the title Life, was issued by RSO in 1982, but early poignant vocal, helping confirm Solid Air as song, which builds with a searing intensity. ambitions were dashed when the company Martyn’s finest album. Don’t Bang The Drum and The Past Within folded. Further recordings attracted Linn are also strong, but the highlight is The Products, purveyors of high-quality hi-fi 7 Whole Of The Moon, a passionate song systems, who in turn offered to finance an PSYCHOCANDY encapsulating everything positive in Mike’s album. As work was completed in isolation, JESUS AND MARY CHAIN singular muse. It would reach the Top few knew of Blue Nile’s existence and A Brothers James and William Reid, abetted Three six years after it first appeared, by Walk Across The Rooftops (1984) caught by Douglas Hart and Murray Slade, launched which time Scott and the Waterboys were the world unprepared. Its picaresque Jesus And Mary Chain in 1984 with the exploring pastures new. soundscapes were both delightful and cathartic Upside Down. A cavernous slab of haunting, enhanced by arrangements that screaming feedback, basic bass and drums 10 remain scrupulously open-ended. Tinseltown and eerily disengaged vocals, it inspired THE 5000 SPIRITS In The Rain and Stay show a commercial the sound found on the following year’s THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND edge, but compositions such as Easter Psychocandy. With Primal Scream’s Bobby The Incredible String Band split up after Parade and From Rags To Riches allow the Gillespie replacing Slade, the set included their eponymous debut. Clive Palmer would Nile’s oeuvre to flourish more freely in a such stellar moments as Never Understand, not return, but Mike Heron and Robin mesmerising collection. You Trip Me Up and Just Like Honey, Williamson were reunited when the latter but where In A Hole is equally piercing, reappeared from Morocco. Released in 5 Cut Dead boasts a contrasting delicacy. 1967, 5000 Spirits is an audacious selection. BANDWAGONESQUE Indeed, the Reids suggested a darker, Sitar, oud, gimbri and tamboura add colour TEENAGE FANCLUB more desolate Beach Boys and, in Sowing to some of the duo’s finest performances; Having evolved from the incestuous Bellshill Seeds, something akin to the Chiffons. This where Heron’s contributions are more scene of the BMX Bandits, Boy Hairdressers understanding of pop structure would ensure indebted to structure (Chinese White, and Groovy Little Numbers, Teenage the Jesus And Mary Chain’s longevity. Painting Box), Williamson’s rise over formal Fanclub emerged in 1989 to pull all previous meter. The results are enthralling. My Name aspirations together. A Catholic Education 8 Is Death resembles a lost Childe Ballad, announced their arrival; Bandwagonesque BERT JANSCH where First Girl I Loved, which recounts a confirmed them as something special. BERT JANSCH chance meeting with a long-lost girlfriend, Endearingly sloppy but fired by purpose, Glasgow-born Bert Jansch was one of the is genuinely moving. If ever an album this 1991 album revealed a band imbued pivotal figures of Edinburgh’s early 60s folk crystallised its era - in scope, ambition and with the Byrds, Kinks and Neil Young. scene. Having absorbed, then surpassed, (even) artwork - it is this one. Comparisons with cult band Big Star were the guitar techniques of mentors Archie 9 made and, while accurate, it’s also true to Fisher and Hamish Imlach, he left for Sharleen Spiteri is a 11 fly; part mischief, part magician. The hit 16 Scottish singer. She RATTLESNAKES single Club Country further explored the NEXT fronts the band Texas. LLOYD COLE AND THE COMMOTIONS duo’s disgust with bourgeois society and THE SENSATIONAL ALEX HARVEY BAND Her father is Maltese of A student at Glasgow University, Lloyd Cole showcased Mackenzie’s otherworldly vocals. Galvanised by the tragic death of his Italian descent and she formed the Commotions with Blair Cowan, A cover of Gloomy Sunday further enhances younger brother Leslie, Alex Harvey returned grew up in Balloch near Neil Clark, Lawrence Donegan and Stephen the mood of doomed decadence. The US to Glasgow and, having joined forces with Loch Lomond. Irvine in 1982. Eschewing overtures from edition and the CD re-issues play around struggling hard-rock band Tear Gas, forged local labels, the group opted for Polydor, with thetrack listing, adding a cover of Love the Sensational Alex Harvey Band. Their releasing the impressive Rattlesnakes in Hangover, but the changes dilute the sullen debut album, Framed, was strong, but the 1984. power of the original, which marked a high band truly flourished on Next (1973). During A highly literate selection, the set is also point for the duo’s pop. the 60s, Alex had played in the pit band for imbued with an engaging sense of song the musical Hair, and he brought a sense of construction. Any composition referring to 14 theatricality to his new venture. The title both Arthur Lee and Norman Mailer (Are You WHITE ON BLONDE track, Jacques Brel’s sordid tale of mobile Ready To Be Heartbroken) has to be admired, TEXAS army brothels, was taken to new extremes while Perfect Skin, a Top 30 hit, rings In the wake of Southside’s commercial by a leering, lascivious vocal, while Faith with the sparkle of the Byrds and Velvet success, Texas maintained a rootsy path Healer would become one of many in- Underground. Elsewhere, Rattlesnakes and with Mother’s Heaven and Rick’s Road, but concert favourites. The inclusion of Giddy Up Forest Fire show a band brimming with found a similar mainstream approbation A Ding Dong was also telling. The original self-belief, factors enhancing this album’s elusive. Paradoxically, a cover version of Al was cut by Freddie Bell And The Bellboys, continued appeal. Green’s Tired Of Being Alone’ released as a the first rock’n’roll group to play live in single in 1992, provided a clue about future Glasgow. Curious... 12 direction, as the first chart entry culled from HIGH LAND HARD RAIN White On Blonde (1997) suggested a similar 17 want a AZTEC CAMERA style. Say What You Want was a persuasive RAINTOWN preview of Aztec Camera - Roddy Frame, Dave slice of pop/soul and deservedly reached DEACON BLUE Mulholland and Campbell Owens - made the Top Three, paving a way for Halo and His early ‘80s venture, Woza, in ruins, St. Andrew’s two singles for Postcard Records prior to the more robust Black-Eyed Boy. White Dundee-born singer-songwriter Ricky Ross venue? Are switching to Rough Trade. High Land Hard On Blonde basked in a new-found slick took time out to hone songsmith talents. Rain (1983) maintained the Californian approach which was rewarded with a No1 An album’s worth of material resulted in you going sunshine pop and confirmed songwriter slot, reinvigorating Texas’s career. a publishing deal, on the proviso he find a to the Fall Frame as an outstanding talent. Newcomers band. Initially known as Dr Love, Deacon Bernie Clark and Ray Duff had joined the 15 Blue was formed in 1985 and signed to Meeting and line-up, Mulholland had dropped out, and TIGERMILK CBS the following year. The material on Program at the reconfigured unit conjured a warm, BELLE AND SEBASTIAN Raintown offered a panoramic view, where more polished, sound, most apparent on Of all the talent on offer in the Scotland’s elements drawn from Bruce Springsteen, Maketewah? the remake of We Could Send Letters. This 100 Best Albums, few are as idiosyncratic Steely Dan and Prefab Sprout fostered a Contact Jesse honeyed approach ensures that Oblivious as Belle and Sebastian. They were formed mid-Atlantic sound honed by Ross’s sincere, Andrews to and Pillar To Post are instantly memorable, in 1996 by music business students Stuart finely-wrought lyrics. Raintown is best and their tonal positivity contrasts the Murdoch, Stuart David and Mick Cook. recalled for Dignity, a carefully contructed go October more melancholic Walk Out To Winter and Having recorded a handful of songs, the song which captures them at their best. 14th. The Bugle Sounds Again. Largely acoustic, trio recruited four further members in a High Land Hard Rain is a remarkable café. Tigermilk (1996) was financed by 18 achievement. the course the founders attended, run HEAVEN OR LAS VEGAS by Glasgow’s Stow College, when Alan THE COCTEAU TWINS 13 Rankine nominated Belle and Sebastian for The seventh album of a highly innovative SULK its annual prize. The ensemble’s willowy, career, Heaven Or Las Vegas shows the THE ASSOCIATES pastoral sound was already apparent on Cocteau Twins’ powers undiminished. The Album Of The Year in several 1982 this enchanting collection. Sweet melodies Having made their debut in 1982, Elizabeth polls, Sulk followed up the success of and light arrangements abound in a gentle, Fraser and Robin Guthrie had forged a Party Fears Two, an extraordinary hit single sometimes dizzy, atmosphere that always startlingly original path, marked by broad- characterised by the unsettling ambiguity of suggests summer. Under the terms of the palette soundscapes and Fraser’s spectral, the lyrics. It was anchored by Alan Rankine’s contest, a mere 1,000 copies were pressed, wordless vocals. Eschewing vocalisation for delightful keyboard hookline, a substitute but Tigermilk was made available again in conventional lyrics did not deter from the 10 for an orthodox chorus. Freed from normal 1999. atmosphere kindled by Fraser’s voice, and in structure, vocalist Billy Mackenzie let Fifty-Fifty Clown, Iceblink Luck and Heaven One of Scotland’s Or Las Vegas itself, the Cocteau Twins this unfettered joy is what makes the best of the stellar title song and a moving reading of premier rock exports, created some of the finest songs in their their work so appealing. Steve Earle’s My Old Friend The Blues. The Nazareth are famed for entire canon. Proclaimers’ polemicism surfaces on What their brilliant interpre- 22 Do You Do? and Cap In Hand, an overall tations of other people’s 19 HATS combination which ensures Sunshine On songs as well as their . THE MAN WHO THE BLUE NILE Leith’s continued popularity. crunching originals. TRAVIS Five years after their enigmatic debut, Travis secured a publishing deal following The Blue Nile unleashed Hats in 1989. 25 an early release as Glass Onion. Having Expectations were inevitably high, and fully FISHERMAN’S BLUES subsequently financed a self-titled EP, realised, by another exquisitely-crafted THE WATERBOYS the band moved to London in 1997, set. Every song is sumptuous, whether Having completed This Is The Sea, Mike armed with a contract with Sony “vanity” the mildly up-tempo Headlights On The Scott sought to add different forms of label, Independiente. Their debut album, Parade or the image-laden Downtown music - folk, Cajun and country - into the Good Feeling, showed a promise fulfilled Lights, which encapsulates The Blue Nile’s Waterboys’ sound. This coincided with the with the No1 follow-up, The Man Who fascination for urban landscapes and departure of Karl Wallinger and the arrival (1999). By softening their approach, the personal observations. The tenderness of of Irish fiddler Steve Wickham, who invited quartet allowed space for a textured Let’s Go Out Tonight, a showcase for one Scott to move to Ireland. By the release of mellifluousness, captured on the easy-styled of Paul Buchanan’s finest vocals, is equally Fisherman’s Blues (1988), the group had Driftwood and Turn. Why Does It Always prevalent on Saturday Night, a homage to been reshaped and was resident in Galway. Rain On Me became one of the songs of the that perennial pop fascination, the weekend. The Celtic influence peppers this excellent year, confirming Travis’s grasp of persuasive A moment of undiluted optimism, it closes album. Its title track reveals a lightness melody. an unequivocally beautiful album. of touch, with Scott sounding his most joyous. The more sombre Strange Boat is a Are you 20 23 captivating ballad. NEW GOLD DREAM THE ORANGE JUICE gathering SIMPLE MINDS ORANGE JUICE 26 dust... In New Gold Dream (1982), Simple Minds By the release of their third album, Orange CAN’T STAND THE REZILLOS defined their sound, freeing Mick McNeil’s Juice were a markedly different proposition THE REZILLOS dexterous keyboard work and Derek Forbes to the group first signed to Polydor. They In Can’t Stand My Baby The Rezillos not ...on past bubbling bass. A lush production enhanced were now ostensibly cut to a duo of Edwyn only created one of the punk era’s stand- their newfound confidence in concise, strong Collins and percussionist Zeke Manyika, out singles, they also introduced “radge” Caledonian structures, encapsulated on Promised You aided by dubmaster/ producer Dennis into pop’s lexicon. Yet, despite their timing, materials? A Miracle and the propulsive title track. Bovell. Collins was clearly liberated, and the band owed more to an era infested Moments of passivity, notably King Is in What Presence?!, the band created the by Dansette/Dalek imagery, Joe Meek Contact White And In The Crown, show a sense of perfect sonic tapestry for one of the singer’s productions, Piltdown Men instrumentals Addison adventure undiminished, but a one-time finest songs. Another gem, The Artisans, and Johnny Kidd, Dave Clark Five and girl- Clipson, discordant austerity is replaced by a warm, is obliquely autobiographical. The Orange group pop. Live, they were irresistible. Can’t almost seductive, texture. As Jim Kerr later Juice set brims with similarly excellent Stand The Rezillos, hurriedly recorded in maybe he’ll related: “New Gold Dream is where we compositions but, despite being the band’s New York during other acts’ down time, want it for came into our own.” finest hour, it would prove to be their swan- collected a succession of stage favourites song. - Good Sculptures, No, Flying Saucer Attack the archives. 21 and Top Of The Pops - the last of which GRAND PRIX 24 reached No 17 and led to an appearance TEENAGE FANCLUB SUNSHINE ON LEITH on the titular TV show. A growing schism, Released in 1995, Grand Prix marked the THE PROCLAIMERS between vocalists Faye Fife and Eugene debut of new drummer Paul Quinn, who Where their debut album had been left Reynolds and the rest of the band, would replaced Brendan O’Hare. The Fanclub largely unadorned, Craig and Charlie Reid pull The Rezillos apart. had been the subject of an unwarranted opted for a fuller sound on Sunshine On backlash in the wake of Thirteen (1993), Leith. With producer Pete Wingfield on 27 and this set more than answered their piano and Jerry Donahue, formerly of TOUCH detractors. An infatuation with US west folk-rock favourites Fairport Convention on THE EURYTHMICS coast icons is still apparent, but the album guitar, the support on offer enhanced the The Scots/not Scots argument was raised by nonetheless shows a band forgoing their intrinsic pathos in the twins’ work. Their the Eurythmics, largely because the principle metier. Punning titles, Mellow Doubt and distinctively Scottish brogue brings fire to songwriter and driving force, Dave Stewart, 11 Neil Jung openly reveal a sense of humour the punchy I’m Gonna Be, while the Reid is English. Yet it was Annie Lennox who, always apparent in Teenage Fanclub, and brothers’ intuitive harmonies resonate on through reinvention, gave the group its many Many of these albums striking visual images and, more importantly, 30 33 led the way for Celtic its voice. The tentative In The Garden was DOGS IN THE TRAFFIC BE BOP MOP TOP Rock to develop. Show- followed by the more accessible Sweet LOVE AND MONEY DANNY WILSON ing roots from folk, Dreams before Touch (1983) confirmed the Fronted by James Grant, Love And Money Danny Wilson - Gary Clark, Kit Clark and rock, and blues Celtic Rock is still evolving. Eurythmics as the era’s major synthesiser were nominally part of Glasgow’s soul-boy Ged Grimes - continued their special blend pop band. Two international hits, Here scene, alongside Hipsway and Wet Wet of soul, crafted pop and cool jazz with Be Comes The Rain Again and Who’s That Wet. But where All You Need Is ... Love And Bop Mop Top (1989). This urbane collection Girl?, each marked by Lennox’s commanding Money confirmed this vein, Strange Kind Of included the trenchant Second Summer Of vocals, formed the core of this highly Love revealed a more restrained sound, as Love and re-emphasised the songwiting distinctive set. Grant sought a less brash vision. A third set, craft housed within the band, particularly The Mother’s Boy was scrapped in favour of that of Gary Clark. The band split amicably 28 Dogs In The Traffic (1991). An edgy, intense in 1990. His former colleagues worked with DARKLANDS and troubled collection, it reflected Grant’s Gary on his top-30 solo album Ten Short JESUS AND MARY CHAIN growing maturity as a songwriter, and Songs About Love (1993), which in part James and William Reid courted early the stripped-down arrangements allowed continued the legacy of this excellent band. publicity for riot-strewn gigs and feedback- greater emphasis on his lyrics and melodies. strewn records. Yet they gradually withdrew Although Love And Money would continue 34 from white noise, determined to avoid until 1994, Dogs In The Traffic effectively SURF cliché and emphasise their love of classic marked the beginning of Grant’s solo career. RODDY FRAME melody. April Skies and Happy When It Aztec Camera always boasted an acoustic Rains suggested the more-skeletal approach 31 feel to music, and so the notion of Roddy abounding on the attendant Darklands, SUNSHINE SUPERMAN Frame unplugged was not necessarily issued in 1987. Controversial upon release, DONOVAN surprising. Yet those who felt his inspiration the album is a triumph because the brothers Unfairly dubbed a mere Dylan copyist, waning since 1998’s The North Star were refused to trade on preconceptions, Donovan quickly evolved from his denim- forced to reassess such opinions with Surf. preferring instead to showcase their clad, “boho” beginnings. He turned fully- Recorded in Frame’s front room, the intimacy undoubted songwriting gifts, exemplified on fledged electric in 1966, but the pioneering this generates matches the atmosphere of the bewitching On The Wall. aspect of this folk/rock classic was clouded largely reflective songs made more telling when contractual problems delayed its by captivating jazz and folk progressions. You’re a new 29 UK release by several months. Where the Perhaps because of its stripped-down POPPED IN SOULED OUT British version compiled material from two nature, Surf seems to capture Frame at member WET WET WET sources, the US release better reflected the his most confessional and personal but, and don’t Having secured a recording deal in 1985, singer’s vision. Its superior content ranged however vulnerable, it is the work of a know what Wet Wet Wet spent the next two years from the fiery Season Of The Witch to the consummate songsmith. at loggerheads with their label. The right medieval-styled Guinevere, taking in The to do with producer became a vexed question, as Trip, The Fat Angel and a Bert Jansch tribute 35 yourself? sessions with John Ryan and Stephen Street Bert’s Blues, on the way. EN-TACT proved moribund. A dream collaboration THE SHAMEN You wanna with soul veteran Willie Mitchell (Al Green, 32 The Shamen evolved from a pop/psyche go active? Ann Peebles) was rejected by Phonogram, THE THREE EPS indie band into one defining the ecstasy and the dilemma was only solved when a THE BETA BAND culture of the 1980s. By 1988, founding Contact Rex demo of Wishing I Was Lucky, recorded in The Beta Band evolved in 1994 when St member Colin Angus and recent addition Wolfgang Wilf Smarties’ home-based studio, was Andrews-born Steve Mason met Edinburgh Will Sinott were the sole remaining overdubbed and issued as a single. A top- University students John MacLean members of The Shamen’s previous or another ten hit, it epitomised the Wets’ blend of and Robin James on a train to London. incarnation as they avidly embraced the officer to sweet R&B and pop. Such elements are Bassist Gordon Anderson was replaced so-called Second Summer Of Love. En-tact abundant on Popped In Souled Out, which by Richard Greentree prior to the group’s confirmed their new-found status in the acid help. also featured Sweet Little Mystery and first recordings. Their quirky blend of post- house dance scene. It included the anthem- ‘Angel Eyes’, two further top-five entries. Madchester dance and shoe-gazing samples like Pro-Gen and Hyperreal, which features a Confidently slick, the album remains Wet was captured on The Three EPs; Champion fabulous vocal from Polish singer Plavka. Wet Wet’s definitive collection. Versions (1997), The Patty Patty Sound and Los Amigos Del Beta Banditos (both 1998), 36 were subsequently compiled on this album. POSTED SOBER 12 Fumblingly riddled with a sardonic edge, The MICHAEL MARRA Beta Band has never sounded better. A former member of 70s Dundee hopefuls Skeets Boliver, Michael Marra worked as aching selection in a set which, in common drew on country blues, work songs and US a songwriter in London before releasing with Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks, shows an folk songs. Donegan then cut Rock Island The Midas Touch in 1980. Five albums have artist laying bare his soul. Line and John Henry during band sessions. followed in a mercurial career which has When issued as singles, these tracks included collaborations with John Byrne 40 XTRMNTR inspired the skiffle boom, with Alabama and Liz Lochhead, and the approbation PRIMAL SCREAM Bound, Midnight Special and Stewball of Deacon Blue and Hue And Cry. Posted Having regained momentum with Vanishing following. As Donegan influenced largely Sober, released in 2001, is arguably his Point, Primal Scream reasserted its rights through his singles, this compilation best most cohesive work to date. His laconic to sonic attack with XTRMNTR. A brutal represents his work. observations are surrounded by breath- melange of Stooges’ riffs, Can rhythms, taking arrangements and melodies. A house experimentation and Sun Ra tonal 44 crafted lyricist, his wry world-view is honed patterns, the album blazes through, among EMPIRES AND DANCE to perfection. Marra takes songwriting into others, Kill All Hippies, Swastika Eyes and SIMPLE MINDS realms few others would dare attempt. Shoot Speed Kill Light. A team of producers Empires And Dance resolved the quandary including Kevin Shields (My Bloody that was early Simple Minds. Their first 37 Valentine), David Holmes and the Chemical album was viewed largely as derivative, UP FOR A BIT WITH THE PASTELS Brothers bring their contrasting skills to the their second knowingly obtuse, as the band THE PASTELS mix, but the post-punk apocalyptic vision struggled to recapture early promise and Fronted by Stephen Pastel, this firmly remains that of Primal Scream. carve a musical niche. This third album, quintessentially independent group have released in 1980, followed a period of survived and prospered since 1982. 41 intense touring, primarily reflected in the Originally associated with the “shambling” CITY TO CITY Euro-disco style of I Travel. Part Kraftwerk, scene, they recorded for several labels, GERRY RAFFERTY part Donna Summer, the track opened including Creation. Their influence is almost Gerry Rafferty’s career prior to City To City new horizons for the band, mainly through incalculable as they encouraged others to would have proved sufficient for many acceptance on the club scene. emulate their sense of purpose through musicians. Born in Paisley, he worked Elsewhere, Celebrate took its cue from fanzines and low-key clubs. Up For A Bit with beat groups the Meridians and Fifth previous recordings, but a new discipline WWI’s Harry Lauder was With The Pastels captured a new-found Column before joining Billy Connolly in the gave it greater purpose, while This Fear Of Scotland’s Al Jolson, a confidence. The opening track, Ride, boasts Humblebums in 1969. After the band split in Gods points to future developments. kilted minstrel who took orchestration, while revamped versions of 1970, a first solo album and Stealer’s Wheel folk material and added Baby Honey and I’m Alright With You show followed, prior to City To City’s release in 45 a shameless brand how they matured. 1978. Yet for all the crafted soft-rock on FOURTH DRAWER DOWN of showmanship. offer, everything was overshadowed by THE ASSOCIATES Harry, though, was 38 Baker Street and that saxophone passage When the Associates - Billy Mackenzie and 50 years too early. GARBAGE by Raphael Ravenscroft. The song’s success Alan Rankine - were dropped by Fiction GARBAGE allowed Rafferty to then pursue his own Records, the pair set about finding a new Scottish or not Scottish. The Garbage distinctive sound. deal by stealth. Securing studio time from question tested the judging panel and one company, they’d cut a master, then opinions pro and con remained entrenched. 42 use the results to attract interest from What is uncontestable is Edinburgh-born KELVINGROVE BABY other labels. Five singles were recorded vocalist Shirley Manson’s pedigree. While THE BATHERS in this manner, subsequently forming the Did you guitarist “Big” John Duncan moved on to Essentially an avenue for the talents of Chris core of Fourth Drawer Down (1982). These know that the work with Nirvana, the latter’s producer, Thompson, the Bathers evolved when this performances see the pair at their most Butch Vig, invited Manson to join his post- gifted singer/songwriter quit Friends Again. adventurous, be it in the frantic Message Caledonian grunge project, Garbage, in 1995. The While the core of his former group forged Oblique Speech, the near-funereal Tell Me Pipe and combination was perfect, as evinced by this Love And Money, Thompson opted for a Easter’s On Friday. powerful debut album. Manson’s dedication musical path marked by introspection. Four Drums has to her roots was confirmed in 1999 when albums recorded between 1987 and 1995 46 a birthday Garbage played live at the celebrations for saw him explore similar themes of doomed A PAGAN PLACE the opening of the Scottish Parliament. relationships prevalent in Scott Walker and THE WATERBOYS coming up... the Tindersticks. Kelvingrove Baby (1997) Mike Scott’s career has taken many ...in 2012, 39 shows little respite from this compulsive twists and turns. When his late Seventies GRACE AND DANGER muse, but Thompson’s real gift is ensuring band Another Pretty Face split up, few they’ve been JOHN MARTYN that his world-weariness is never maudlin. If expected such a brilliant regeneration in continuous During his lengthy career, John Martyn has Love Could Last Forever and The Fragrance as the Waterboys. Now based in London embraced folk, jazz, reggae and rock. Having Remains The Same are particularly and joined by Anthony Thistlethwaite and existence for briefly left Island Records, he returned to the intoxicating. Karl Wallinger, he completed the group’s 100 years. scene of earlier triumphs in 1980 with this eponymous album before unleashing A exceptional album. Its content chronicled the 43 Pagan Place in 1984. Scott’s passionate break-up of his marriage to former singing SKIFFLE view is exemplified on The Big Music, both partner Beverley. Martyn’s heart-shredding LONNIE DONEGAN in sound and title, and a desire to invest his emotion is most notable on Baby Please Lonnie Donegan’s influence on popular music songs with spirituality gives the stunning Come Home, where his voice trembles with is incalculable. Almost every artist from the All The Things She Gave Me and Church intensity, but Our Love and Hurt In Your British beat boom - including the Beatles Not Made With Hands an intensity few Heart are equally moving. Although the - and beyond, owes him a debt. During early songwriters could match. A Pagan Place is 13 Jamaican-styled Johnny Too Bad lightens sets in Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen, Donegan where the Waterboys’ approach was firmly the mood, Sweet Little Mystery is another introduced a “skiffle” intermission which established. Article 47 Everything, confirmed this transformation. 50 SOUTHSIDE The craftedness of the band’s songwriting HAPPY BIRTHDAY XXIII in the TEXAS and the sense of irony apparent in Currie’s ALTERED IMAGES Constitution Johnny McElhone’s turbulent career finally lyrics underpin The Ones That You Love The core of Altered Images - Johnny found its home with Texas. Vocalist Sharleen Lead You Nowhere and Be My Downfall. His McElhone, Tony McDade and Michael provides Spiteri and guitarist Ally McErlaine were his Eeyore-styled pessimism is encapsulated on Anderson - were at school together, but the that “the ideal foils, as evinced on this 1989 album. Always The Last To Know, which remains, band only prospered with the addition of McErlaine’s eerie slide work, inspired by Ry for many, Del Amitri’s finest moment. vocalist Clare Grogan, concurrently filming members Cooder, creates an atmospheric template her role in Gregory’s Girl. Patronage from of the on which Spiteri’s distinctive, committed 49 John Peel and Siouxsie and the Banshees voice shines. I Don’t Want A Lover, a Top THE REMOTE PART helped them secure a deal, while producer Caledonian Ten single, opens the set with purpose, the IDLEWILD Martin Rushent brought out their pure pop Society distinctive bottleneck and driving urgency Roddy Woomble, Rod Jones and Colin inclinations. Happy Birthday and I Could defining Texas’s early sound. With sales in Newton formed Idlewild in Edinbugh in Be Happy were the pivotal tracks (and Top shall dine excess of two million copies, the group - and 1995. Inspired by various US post-hardcore Ten singles) on the band’s album debut, together- McElhone - had arrived. noisemeisters, they issued singles for sundry but the entire set was infused with a joyful upon St. independent labels before signing with Food innocence. However, their undoubted 48 in 1998. With Bob Fairfoull completing the grasp of bubblegum was undermined by Andrew’s CHANGE EVERYTHING line-up, successive albums revealed a band overwhelming attention on Clare’s barbie Day”. DEL AMITRI gradually decreasing volume for a more image and little-girl-lost voice. This would Del Amitri were part of a new generation of subtle edge. On The Remote Part (2002), this ultimately push the band towards a musical Glasgow groups including the Bluebells and transformation was complete, notably with dead end. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions. Centred You Held The World In Your Arms, a Top Ten on the talents of vocalist/songwriter Justin single heralding the album’s release and the 51 Currie, their early, naive image gradually band’s move to Parlophone. It was Idlewild’s UH! TEARS BABY (A TRASH ICON) developed into something more substantial, most melodic set to date; they even used WIN partly through an unpresupposing attitude acoustic guitars, and this new-found Formed by ex-Fire Engines stalwarts Davey to success. The arrival of guitarist Mick mainstream acceptance led to support slots Henderson and Russell Burn, Win was a Slaven provided the final push towards on tour with the Rolling Stones. quite different proposition to its predecessor. rock and Del Amitri’s third album, Change Superficially similar to the quicksilver pop

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Pre-registration for both contests is recommended, but walk-ups the day of the event will be considered. 14 FSMG - 1420 Race Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202 513.621.4400 - 513.621.5900 (f) - [email protected] of Heaven 17, they attempted subversion section underscores the taut arrangements, awards and established Lennox as an artist through lyrical content. Two funk-oriented exemplified on A Fool In Love. Drunken in her own right. singles, Super Popoid Groove and Nights In The City, Hard On The Levee and UnAmerican Broadcasting, prefaced Uh! The Rock itself are further strong inclusions, 58 Tears Baby, which mischievously twisted but the focus, as always, is Miller himself, THE CUTTER AND THE CLAN between Marc Bolan and Prince. Another and his raw, impassioned voice. He would RUNRIG stellar song, You’ve Got The Power was later have hits with Darlin’ and Caledonia, It was a long way from the Run-Rig Dance featured in a McEwan’s Lager TV advert, before a brain aneurysm in 1994 left him Band, playing gigs around the Isle Of Skye, although the company obviously missed the partially paralysed. The benefit album and to the release of this album. Runrig had punchlines “to censor what’s real” and “to concert of 2002 were fitting tributes to his grown from their origins, taking elements generate fear”. Win split up after a second talents. of Horslips and Fairport Convention to album, Trigger Finger, after which Henderson forge a brash, Gaelic folk rock, which over formed the Nectarine No 9. 55 the years had captured an ever-widening LOVE audience. As songs in English had become 52 AZTEC CAMERA more dominant, so their anthemic style THE GREAT EASTERN Love was released in 1987, some three grew in popularity, allied to a sense of THE DELGADOS years after its predecessor, Knife. In the Scottish patriotism. The Cutter and the The Delgados’ importance not only stems meantime, Roddy Frame (always, in essence, Clan, issued in 1987, was their final album from their own releases, but also their Aztec Camera) had completed a world on an independent label. It opened with imprint, Chemikal Underground, sometime tour with his group, before withdrawing to Alba which, alongside Protect and Survive home of Arab Strap and Mogwai. The group write new material. It resulted in his most and Rocket To The Moon, quickly became - Alun Woodward, Emma Pillock, Stewart successful album to date, largely due to the concert favourites. This set finally propelled Henderson and Paul Savage - formed in belated recognition afforded Somewhere Runrig on to a global stage and set the tone 1994 and had completed two albums and In My Heart, a Top Three hit in 1988. This for the band’s most successful period. sundry singles and EPs prior to the release persuasive song caught Aztec Camera in all of The Great Eastern in 2000. The healthy its glory, yet Frame only decided to include 59 eclecticism previously on display coalesced it on Love at the last minute. How Men Are GARLANDS largely through its impressive arrangements and Working In A Goldmine were other hits COCTEAU TWINS and augmentations. Horn sections and culled from this polished set. Taking their name from an early Simple stellar orchestration underscore a set which Minds song, the Cocteau Twins - Elizabeth includes some of the Delgados’ finest 56 Fraser, Robin Guthrie and (briefly) Will performances, notably American Trilogy and IF YOU’RE FEELING SINISTER Heggie - left Grangemouth for London Make Your Move. BELLE AND SEBASTIAN armed with a demo tape intended for John Their objectives established with Tigermilk, Peel. He gave the trio slots on his Radio 1 53 the reclusive Belle And Sebastian followed show which resulted in a recording deal THE CROSSING up their limited-edition debut six months and Garlands. Their sound encompassed BIG COUNTRY later with If You’re Feeling Sinister. The sheets of textured guitars, slow-moving Stuart Adamson emerged from the debris charming mixture remained the same; rhythms and Frazer’s eerie, ambient vocals. of the Skids with this successful album. It wistful, gentle melodies recalling ghosts of Such lyrical ambiguity gave Garlands its relied on the urgency of his former group Nick Drake and the Bryan Maclean-Love, originality and allowed the Twins’ music but the basic pattern was embellished with centred on Stuart Murdoch’s deftly-relaxed to develop as an emotionally complete Adamson’s ringing “bagpipe” guitar sound vocals. Stars Of Track And Field, Mayfly experience. which infused the material with Celtic and the title track itself, are among the imagery. Fields Of Fire and In A Big Country highlights of an enigmatic set befitting a 60 typified Big Country’s rousing approach as band whose anti-star approach enhances YOU CAN’T HIDE YOUR LOVE FOREVER Adamson clearly relished having a band the natural aspects of their music. Indeed, at ORANGE JUICE free from the internal instabilities of its about the time of a much-touted NME front Postcard Records played a fundamental role predecessor. For the rest of the decade page spread, Murdoch was spotted busking in the development of Scottish rock and In 1878, the group enjoyed international success, in a lane off Glasgow’s Byres Road, trying pop. Their do-it-yourself ethos was deftly the Society but the 90s were less kind and Adamson’s out new songs. combined with a love of 1960s Americana. personal demons resurfaced. Struggling Orange Juice epitomised this perspective aided the with alcoholism, he left Britain for Nashville 57 and, having recorded several singles, signed Yellow Fever and a new career in 1999. Nothing, sadly, DIVA a major deal with Polydor. You Can’t Hide was resolved. Adamson was found dead in a ANNIE LENNOX Your Love Forever was initially viewed as a sufferers in Hawaii hotel room in December 2001. Annie Lennox left Aberdeen in the late 60s, compromise between avarice and altruism, Vicksburg, armed with a scholarship for the Royal combining Postcard-related material with a 54 Academy Of Music. After dropping out in more commercial sound. Time has helped Mississippi. THE ROCK 1971, she supplemented singing with work heal such wounds. The brittle beauty of Wan FRANKIE MILLER as a waitress and, by chance, met Dave Light, Felicity and In A Nutshell has proved Having spent his formative years in a Stewart in a restaurant. The pair formed the irresistible, while the soul of L.O.V.E. Love succession of bands, Frankie Miller moved Tourists, then Eurythmics, before Lennox gave the band a first taste of chart success. to London in the early 1970s. After securing moved on to a solo career. Diva was her a recording deal, he cut Once In A Blue first, and most impressive, album. It opens 61 Moon and High Life before forging the with the plaintive Why, which reached the ALEX HARVEY AND HIS SOUL BAND Frankie Miller Band. This tightly-knit unit UK Top Ten, and continued in a similarly ALEX HARVEY AND HIS SOUL BAND 15 made its debut on The Rock, a marvellous reflective mood. A No 1 hit in Britain, Diva This is, arguably, where Scottish rock hybrid of rock and soul. A nagging horn was also nominated for three Grammy began. Alex Harvey had fronted various bands since the mid-50s but, tiring of what When the group split up, she turned briefly created one of their finest songs to date. he perceived as apathy, took his Soul Band to acting before re-establishing her singing Spin-off projects - such as Astrochimp with to a more receptive audience in Hamburg. career with Eddi Reader and the Patron Eugene Kelly - and sessions moonlighting A lengthy residency at the Top Ten Club Saints Of Imperfection. Mirmama, released with the BMX Bandits reinforced rather ensued and in October 1963, Alex cut this in 1992, was a remarkable return, blending than deflected from the Fanclub’s collective seminal album. Sadly, it does not feature original material with several deftly- vision. Songs From Northern Europe showed the Soul Band in full flight as musicians from chosen cover versions. Her interpretations a band at last in a position to be judged on other groups were drafted in for contractual of songs by John Prine, Fred Neil and their own merits, standards and catalogue. reasons. The inclusion of Framed and I Just Loudon Wainwright were excellent, but the Wanna Make Love To You is fascinating as highlight was arguably the traditional ballad 68 these are songs the singer would return to The Blacksmith. Reader’s love of folklore THE HANGMAN’S BEAUTIFUL in another guise. Elsewhere, material by continues to this day. DAUGHTER Lonnie Johnson, Shirley and Lee, Muddy THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND Waters and Rodgers and Hammerstein show 65 The third Incredible String Band album is, for how broad the Harvey palate was. This LUBRICATE YOUR LIVING ROOM some, their finest hour. Released in 1968, it set is the equal of others by London-based FIRE ENGINES favours the pen of Robin Williamson, who contemporaries Georgie Fame and Long Having declared their manifesto with wrote seven of its ten songs, including the John Baldry but, as newer groups began the braying, atonal Get Up And Use Me, fragile Nightfall and quirky Witches Hat. Both to catch up, so Alex dissolved the band to Edinburgh’s Fire Engines cut this eight- are among its highlights. Mike Heron was follow a folk-based direction. track mini-album in 1980. Inspired by responsible for the lengthy A Very Cellular Richard Hell’s Voidoids and New York’s Song and ebullient Mercy I Cry City. The 62 no-wave movement, the quartet created a duo’s soaring voices and exotic instruments THE AFFECTIONATE PUNCH spontaneous frenzy where guitars collided, add a kaleidoscope of colour to what may THE ASSOCIATES drums thundered and vocalist Davey be perceived as folk music, but only in its Led by Billy Mackenzie and Alan Rankine, Henderson shrieked and wailed to create broadest sense. The Hangman’s Beautiful the Associates escaped Dundee’s nightclubs a sound both exciting and expressive. Daughter confirms the unique vision the with their audacious version of David However, in choosing to re-record their pair possessed, but future albums would Bowie’s Boys Keep Swinging. Although far debut single, the group showed how much gradually show contrasting perspectives. from a commercial success, its release led they had tightened over the preceding Here it is a precious collaboration. to a support slot on tour with the Cure and months. Orthodoxy mixed with mischief a deal with the latter’s record label. Issued marked subsequent releases before it 69 in 1980, The Affectionate Punch remains was felt the gesture had been made and DUM-DUM Kurt Cobain a major statement with Bowie’s Station the band broke up. Henderson would later THE VASELINES of Nirvana, To Station an austere influence. Yet any surface in Win. Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee forged championed Eugene sense of plagiarism is immediately swept the Vaselines in 1987. Having made their Kelly’s career, and aside by Mackenzie’s devastating voice, its 66 debut with the invective Son Of A Gun, the Vaselines’ influ- multi-octave range allowing him to swoop or THE WHITE ROOM they delivered a follow-up more notable for ence on one of soar according to mood, context or emotion. THE KLF its flipside, the almost-folksy Molly’s Lips. rock’s iconic bands Curiously, the album was completely Pop terrorists the KLF comprised Bill Copies of these singles found their way is uncontestable.. remixed two years later, although purists Drummond and Jimmy Cauty. Drummond to Washington State where a young Kurt Above Cobain and still argue for the original version. had previously worked with Echo and the Cobain embraced them, recording both of Kelly jam. Bunnymen, the Teardrop Explodes and in these songs with Nirvana and performing 63 A&R, before recording a solo album, The them live. Dum-Dum appeared in 1990, by MAINSTREAM Manager, to announce his “retirement”. which time James Seenan and Charles Kelly LLOYD COLE AND THE COMMOTIONS Six months later he and Cauty, formerly of had joined the line-up. Largely splattered Mainstream would bring the career of Lloyd Brilliant, whom Drummond had signed to with distorted guitars and matters of a Cole and the Commotions to a glorious WEA, established the JAMMS, which in carnal nature (Sex Sux, Monster Pussy), it close. It reaffirmed the goup’s collective turn mutated into the KLF. Their fascinating remains an exhilarating listen, but the band strengths and if the singer’s lyrics were less take on dance culture found its voice split up when McKee opted to leave. Cobain In 1847 the reliant on wordplay, they were honed to a on What Time Is Love, 3am Eternal and championed Eugene’s next venture, Captain Society began greater precision. Titles such as Sean Penn’s the attendant White Room, before the America, and the Vaselines’ influence on one Blues and Mr Malcontent encapsulated pair mischievously deleted their entire of rock’s icons is uncontestable. performing contrasting sides of Cole’s muse. Certainly back catalogue. Subsequently, as the K benevolent the impish frisson of early releases had been Foundation, they subverted the art world 70 replaced by maturity, but that itself was by exhibiting GBP 1 million in cash before HIPSWAY acts, to area a more than adequate compensation. The (allegedly) burning it. HIPSWAY and national band split up amicably in 1989. Cole took On the same day Altered Images split, keyboard player Blair Cowan for his solo 67 bassist Johnny McElhone joined Harry relief career; bassist Lawrence Donegan became SONGS FROM NORTHERN BRITAIN Travers and Graham Skinner to form the core services. a journalist. TEENAGE FANCLUB of Hipsway. Various guitarists, including Teenage Fanclub’s fifth official album was James Grant, passed through the ranks until 64 released in June 1997. One of their most Pim Jones completed the line-up of a band MIRMAMA consistent collections, it included their determinedly dedicated to funk and soul EDDI READER first Top 20 entry, Ain’t That Enough, and music. Their eponymous debut is notable A one-time backing singer for the Gang Of revealed a group honing its distinctive style for the brash confidence of The Honeythief, 16 Four and Waterboys, Eddi Reader found with tighter arrangements and catchier a hit in Britain and the USA, and Tinder, fame with Fairground Attraction and Perfect. melodies. Indeed, in I Don’t Care, they purloined for a television ad campaign, but the entire set bristles with confidence and When Cream split in 1968, bassist/vocalist Mackenzie would re-ignite his career. Sadly, commitment. This undeniable promise was Jack Bruce began working with several of MacKenzie took his life in January 1997 marred by internal friction and the defection Britain’s best-known jazz/rock musicians following the death of his mother. of, first McElhone, then Travers. A revamped including Dick Heckstall-Smith (saxophone) Hipsway cut a second set before splitting, and Jon Hiseman (drums). On this, his 78 while their erstwhile bassist formed Texas. official solo debut, Bruce resumed his REMOTE writing partnership with poet Pete Brown HUE & CRY 71 and produced one of the strongest albums Brothers Pat and Greg Kane formed Hue And THE WEEK NEVER of its era. The blend of excellent songs Cry in Coatbridge in 1983. Their unyielding STARTS AROUND HERE and experimentation was both honed affection for classic songwriting, be it ARAB STRAP and balanced, notably on Never Tell Your soul music or Tin Pan Alley, marked them Falkirk duo Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Mother She’s Out Of Tune. Theme For An different from immediate contemporaries Middleton started working together as Arab Imaginary Western is another highlight of an and a spell as house songwriters at Strap in 1995, writing songs in the latter’s exceptional set, one proudly nominated by Chappell’s Music preceded their first bedroom. Renowned for low-fi recordings, Edwyn Collins. recordings. By their second album, Remote, self-deprication and lyrics dwelling on the pair’s talents had flourished fully. It lost love and alcohol, Moffat’s gloriously 75 contained two hit singles, Looking For downbeat world view produced some of AUTHOR! AUTHOR! Linda and Violently, and exuded a confident the saddest songs of recent history. The THE SCARS worldliness. Hue And Cry’s progress faltered pair quickly developed a cult following, The Scars were one of the youngest punk when their label drastically cut its roster, but despite avidly clinging to their Central bands active in Edinburgh in 1977. Growing the Kane brothers continue to work together Belt perspective. Resolutely stoical, The up in public had led to derision from some when other commitments allow. Week Never Starts Around Here contained quarters and many were surprised at the such Strap favourites as Coming Down strength of sound apparent on their debut 79 and I Work In A Saloon, but, although its single Adult/ery/Horrorshow. By the release MUSIC HAS THE RIGHT TO CHILDREN ruminations suggest the drunk at the end of Author! Author! - their sole album - in BOARDS OF CANADA of the bar, there’s a pithy wit about their 1981, their spikey intonations had been Based in the Pentland Hills on the outskirts observations. blunted. Nonetheless, they produced an of Edinburgh, Michael Sandison and Marcus intriguing set with elements of glam, new- Eion formed the Boards Of Canada in 1995. 72 wave goth and new romanticism without Drawing from chilled hip-hop styles, the Centered on the talents THE DREAMING SEA ever slipping into formula or cliché. The duo forged a post-psychedelic ambience of Colin MacIntyre, KAREN MATHESON Scars split the following year, although on their first album, Music Has The Right the Mull Historical Karen Matheson has fronted Capercaille vocalist Bobby King would pursue a short- To Children, which blended echoes of Society burst on to the Scottish music since 1984. Over the ensuing decade lived solo career. German pioneers Cluster with American scene in 2001 with they pursued a largely traditional path dance culture. They embellished the mix the impressive Loss. but a dance mix of several tracks from 76 with occasional samples and attributed Secret People (1993) caused some dissent LOSS their lysergic vision on plangent synthesiser within the band. The Dreaming Sea THE MULL HISTORICAL SOCIETY passages to living in a wilderness. A (1996) allowed the singer to explore other Centred on the talents of Colin MacIntyre, second album, Geogaddi, explored similarly perspectives with the help of James Grant, the Mull Historical Society burst on to experimental ideas. jazz saxophonist Tommy White and the BT the Scottish music scene in 2001 with the Scottish Ensemble. Split between material impressive Loss. It continued a lineage 80 St. Andrew’s in Gaelic and English, the set is a showcase of classic pop compositions, notably with THE ONLY FUN IN TOWN for Matheson’s poignant voice, which the Watching Xanadu, which somehow invoked JOSEF K Day was first sympathetic arrangements greatly enhance. both Postcard Records and the spirit of Having begun life as TV Art, Edinburgh’s celebrated, Brian Wilson. The power of Public Service Josef K were signed to Postcard Records 73 Announcer contrasted the reflectiveness of through the enthusiasm of Orange Juice by the MORNING DOVE WHITE Instead, and the album was rightly feted as drummer Stephen Daly. Their distinctively Society; at ONE DOVE one of the finest released that year. Tours abrasive sound, spurred on by angular guitar One Dove was formed in 1991 around Dot supporting Travis and the Strokes, as well work and Paul Haig’s icy voice, was captured “Watson’s Allison, Ian Carmichael and Jim McKinven as appearances at Glastonbury and T In The on several singles before an entire album Hotel”— (ex-Altered Images). Their first single, Park, seem to secure a healthy future. was completed, then rejected, by both band Cincinnati in the dream-like Fallen, was succeeded by and label. A second session in Brussels the equally blissful White Love, which 77 resulted in The Only Fun In Town where a 1827. featured help from Jah Wobble and Andrew OUTERNATIONAL trebly, urgent production adds even more Innes from Primal Scream. Both tracks BILLY MACKENZIE purpose to their sound, particularly on Fun were present on Morning White Dove, a Despite the success of Sulk, Associates’ ‘n’ Frenzy, Forever Drone and the brilliant It’s captivating mix of pop, dub and ambient founder members Billy Mackenzie and Alan Kinda Funny. Sadly, Josef K split up in 1982, styles, all wrapped by Allison’s evocative Rankine parted company after its release. only months after the album’s release. and impressionistic voice. Despite obvious The former retained the group’s name for an ambition, One Dove faltered during sessions increasingly idiosyncratic musical path. His 81 for a second album, although Allison would remarkable voice remained as captivating ROCK ACTION forge an equally fascinating solo career. as always and, having abandoned the MOGWAI Associates’ name, he issued this solo album Mogwai’s largely instrumental post-rock 74 in 1992. The emotion he brought to What noise had already been aired on Mogwai 17 SONGS FOR A TAILOR Made Me Turn Out The Lights and Windows Young Team and Come On Die Young. On JACK BRUCE Call inspired hope among his many fans that this 2001 release, the quintet successfully harnessed their live sound. Working with 85 the crafted songwriting of Glasgow beat Mercury Rev/Flaming Lips producer Dave SISTERS group veterans Hughie Nicholson and Ian Fridmann, they created something more THE BLUEBELLS McMillan. Both offered compositions which textured and expansive than simple attitude. Forged in the wake of Orange Juice and were simple but effective, with the former, Strings, brass and choral singing were Altered Images, the Bluebells centred an ex-Marmalade member, shining on two added to the stew which also featured a around Robert Hodgens - Bobby Bluebell haunting ballads, Sunset Regret and I Wish vocal cameo from Gruff Rhys of the Super - and Ken and David McCluskey. Their brief I Could Fly. McMillan’s less introspective Furry Animals. history was littered with misplaced plans pieces recalled the charm of Paul Hailed as a triumph, Rock Action broadens and it thus seems doubly ironic that Young McCartney’s first album and together their further the palate of this highly experimental At Heart, although a hit first time around, skills suggested the band had a promising unit. should reach No.1 some seven years after future. Sadly, the rest of their output is the band split. Its carefree breeziness was poor by comparison, but Blue remains an 82 the template for Sisters - more folk than isolated, largely undiscovered, gem. MEET DANNY WILSON rock - which balanced equally summer- DANNY WILSON tinged originals with a moving version of 89 Dundonians Gary and Kit Clark left their Dominic Behan’s The Patriot Game. Its CAKE native city for London in the early 80s, but inclusion would signal the direction the TRASH CAN SINATRAS returned three years later to found Danny McCluskeys would take in their own right, Initially based in Ayrshire, the Trash Can Wilson with Ged Grimes. By this point they while Hodgens continued a songwriting Sinatras offered a style of melodic pop akin had honed a remarkable songwriting talent career. to Aztec Camera. An EP and single prefaced - individually and collectively - as evinced Cake in 1990, and this beautiful, timeless on Meet Danny Wilson. The delicate Mary’s 86 album was the equal of its mentors. The Prayer was a Top 3 hit in 1988, but the EASY PIECES set was a hit on US college radio and the entire album is embued with a late-night LLOYD COLE AND THE COMMOTIONS quintet spent the next three years trying to sophistication encompassing cocktail jazz, Although born in Derby, Lloyd Cole counts capitalise on its popularity. That decision Latin pop, ballads and soul. Few records as Scottish by studying in Glasgow, making undermined progress at home, although the anywhere boast such a breathtaking his first music here and by having a backing Sinatras completed a further two albums Bay City Rollers was a maturity. band made up solely of Scots. Having before accepting a role as accompaniment export from Scotland released the acclaimed Rattlesnakes in in the stage production of Irvine Welsh’s to the world’s preteen 83 1984, the group unveiled Easy Pieces the Marabou Stork Nightmares. population. Their music VANISHING POINT following year. Cole’s literate lyricism is featured in the com- PRIMAL SCREAM was still to the fore, as well as his gift 90 edy film ”So I Married Having followed Screamadelica with the of creating beguiling, twisting melodies. GEORGOUS GEORGE an Axe Murderer”. disappointing Give Out But Don’t Give Arriving so soon after its predecessor, Easy EDWYN COLLINS Up, Primal Scream re-emerged with this Pieces suffered by comparison, but time has Having brought Orange Juice to a close, compulsive collection. The throwaway allowed its merits to shine. In Lost Weekend Edwyn Collins embarked on a solo career Rolling Stones licks of its predecessor and Brand New Friend, the set boasts two of with two critically acclaimed albums, Hope were replaced with an energised, bass Cole’s best-known compositions. and Despair and Hellbent On Compromise. heavy sound and a rekindled sense of gritty Gorgeous George continued in a similar intensity. The Memphis Horns tablas and 87 vein where acerbic lyrics were matched an Augustus Pablo sample add more colour SCARED TO DANCE by Collin’s distinctive, moody voice. Yet its to the sound as group frontman Bobby THE SKIDS content was overshadowed by one track, Gillespie finds a renewed purpose. His Having secured a deal with Virgin on the A Girl Like You. The ringing guitar sound, iconography is apparant in such titles as strength of an independent EP, Dunfermline redolent of Ernie Isley, gives the song an St. Andrew’s Stuka, Motorhead and Kowalsky, as well as punks The Skids made their album debut early 70s flavour, but Collins’ energy and in the album itself which helped them regain with Scared To Dance. The recording was vision ensures it is more than mere pastiche. began at 4 pm. a musical highground. fraught with problems, not the least of Its appeal has remained undiminished. on December which was guitarist Stuart Adamson’s 1, 1828, 84 defection home midway through the 91 SHOP ASSISTANTS session. He was persuaded to return, but ONCE UPON A STAR and did not SHOP ASSISTANTS the rift between him and vocalist Richard BAY CITY ROLLERS adjourn until Led by Ramones fan David Keegan, the Jobson would never be fully healed. The This was a very difficult call. Arguments Shop Assistants evolved in 1983 out of an set showed the band were more frantic pop over artistic merit may rage, yet it cannot the next incestuous Edinburgh scene where several than punk, notably on Into The Valley, their be denied the Bay City Rollers were a pop day. What a bands boasted interchangeable members. first hit single and a composition from which phenomenon. They were hugely popular Dubbed ‘shambling’ due to perceived lack Stuart’s trademark sound would evolve. not only in Britain, but in the US, Canada, humdinger! of musical ability, the band’s early releases That the album was completed was an Australia and Japan, and enjoyed success on the pivotal 53rd and 3rd label balanced achievement in itself and the Skids would few Scottish acts of the time could dream tenderness with high-octane pop. Lured not repeat its peaks again. of. The Rollers were bubblegum at its most to a major company, the Shop Assistants crafted; unassuming individuals, average completed this lone album, but where their 88 talent but wedded to a career plotted with joyful noise remained characteristically BLUE mathematical precision. Yes, it did become charming, it is the melancholic folk/rock of BLUE tawdry, but that doesn’t deflect from the Before I Wake and After Dark that prove A court case against their boy band simple pleasure in Bye Bye Baby. timeless. The departure of vocalist Alex namesakes brought this Blue publicity they 18 Taylor in 1987 proved their undoing. had not previously enjoyed. Yet their 1973 debut is a minor masterpiece, centred on 92 track, and set the template for a career founding members Jimmy Dewar and John STRAWBERRY SWITCHBLADE which continues today. McGinnis. The R&B style of its predecessors STRAWBERRY SWITCHBLADE was more muted, revealing a tough but Originally a mixed-gender quartet, Straw- 96 pliable sound, ideally suited to Maggie Bell’s berry Switchblade were reduced to a duo SOMETHING TO SHOUT ABOUT expressive vocals and Leslie Harvey’s subtle of Jill Bryson and Rose McDowall in 1981. LULU guitar playing. The Dundee Horns joined Trees And Flowers was issued as a single When John Lennon declared Shout his Lulu - as “Wee Marie” - for several tracks prior to this poignant, melancholic album. If record of the week on television’s Ready on a set, which suggested the group was the computerised drumming is occasionally Steady Go, success seemed assured for Lulu about to resolve the quandary of capturing distracting, the set nonetheless echoes and the Luvvers. A Top Ten place ensued, their live sound in the studio. Tragically, the classic girl-group era of Phil Spector. but the group found it hard to maintain that Leslie was electrocuted onstage at Swansea Their Top Five hit, Since Yesterday, and the success. Lulu was increasingly promoted in May 1972, a blow from which Stone The sumptious Let Her Go are but two of the as a solo act, subsequent singles faltered, Crows could never recover. highlights of this consistently enthralling yet she was afforded that rare luxury, a collection. Scottish beat boom album. Something To 100 Shout About has all the pitfalls of rushed SPARKLE IN THE RAIN 93 recordings and arrangements, yet there are SIMPLE MINDS PERSEVERE some fine attempts at material by Marvin Released in 1984, Sparkle In The Rain THE PROCLAIMERS Gaye and the Impressions. Best of all is was the album by which Simple Minds Released in 2001, Persevere was the first Lulu’s reading of Try To Understand which became a “stadium” band. Producer Steve Proclaimers’ album following a seven-year plays to her strengths as a pop, rather than Lillywhite conjured a more direct sound in hiatus during which Craig and Charlie Reid soul, singer. It was the former skill that which former subtleties were shrouded in were unwilling to commit themselves to producer Mickie Most would later exploit. power and dynamism. New drummer Mel below-par material. They re-emerged with Gaynor thrived in this environment, best a collection displaying all their collective 97 exemplified in Waterfront, a homage to strengths. The twins’ broad accents remain WHEN THE WORLD Glasgow as seen through the changing face at the fore, their harmonies are as true KNOWS YOUR NAME of the River Clyde. Up On The Catwalk and as ever, and a fantastic gift for melody is DEACON BLUE Speed Your Love To Me were among the undiminished. Rolling Stones’ producer CBS - Deacon Blue’s record company - used other highlights, as well as a then-rare cover Chris Kimsey brings a warmth to a set which various marketing ploys to launch the band’s version of Lou Reed’s Street Hassle. Within includes Act of Remembrance, a moving album debut Raintown but with the success a year Simple Minds would top the US chart tribute to the Reids’ dead father. Persevere of Real Gone Kid, released as a taster for with Don’t You (Forget About Me). n is a stunning comeback. the follow-up, the band’s commercial future was assured. When The World Knows Your Where, though, to place Scottish Sheena Easton, 94 Name entered the charts at No 1, spawning the Bellshill bauchle HOWDY! three more hits - Wages Day, Love And who was transported TEENAGE FANCLUB Regret and Queen Of The New Year - in to global success by Almost imperceptibly, Teenage Fanclub have the process. For many, however, the pivotal her appearance on a assumed the mantle of veterans. Released song was Fergus Sings The Blues in which starmaking documen- in 2000, almost 20 years on from the pivotal Ricky Ross queried his “blue-eyed” soul tary helmed by Esther Bandwagonesque, Howdy! reaffirms all the credentials. Given Scotland’s enduring Rantzen, and who over- group’s strengths with a series of superbly love of the genre and the song’s riffing came public ridicule to win two Grammies crafted, melodic songs. The core founding arrangement, he need not have worried (including one for trio - Norman Blake, Gerry Love and Ray overlong. Best-Mexican American McGinley - have matured both as musicians performance), record and songwriters, and if the brio of their 98 a Bond theme, duet early releases has been replaced by a more PUNK’S NOT DEAD with Prince, appear on measured sense of contemplation, Howdy! THE EXPLOITED Broadway and in Las nonetheless remains quintessential Fanclub. The Exploited - Wattie Buchan (a former Vegas, and star in a One growing older gracefully. soldier), Big John Duncan, Gary McCormack horror movie. and Dru Stix - were not even around for the 95 punk revolution and their 1981 debut was RAZAMANAZ more akin to the Oi movement than, say, Taking photos NAZARETH the Clash. They were, however, mercifully With their roots in the Fife dance halls shorn of the right-wing politics Oi attracted. Something To Shout About has all at events? of the early 60s, Nazareth emerged early The Exploited thrashed out bulletins of the pitfalls of rushed recordings and Contact Bill the following decade with two promising, discontent with maximum speed, noise and arrangements, yet there are some fine but unsatisfying, albums. Having opted to simplicity. For over a decade Buchan refused attempts at material by Marvin Gaye Parsons to record in Dunfermline for the next set, they to buckle, leading various line-ups without and the Impressions. Best of all is help. brought a mobile studio to their rehearsal ever losing his anger. US hardcore groups Lulu’s reading of Try To Understand. room, the Gang Hut, and invited Deep owe them a big debt. Purple’s Roger Glover to produce. The result was Razamanaz, a crisp, hard-edged 99 collection which gave full rein to Dan TEENAGE LICKS McCafferty’s expressive voice. It included STONE THE CROWS 19 two hit singles, Broken Down Angel and This, the third album by Stone The Crows, Bad Bad Boy, as well as the propulsive title was recorded following the departure of