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Fence Collective

The Pictish Trail

The work of Johnny Lynch, aka ‘The Pictish Trail’ is more stirringly subversive stuff from the Fence Collective. Lynch writes warm, welcoming tales with tiny keyboard patterns, acoustic neo-folk rumblings and all manner of undeniable oddball noises.' ‘Akin to Lou Barlow sobbing his tiny heart out while submerged in Loch Ness, this is the sound of Scotland quietly floating far, far out to some deep enchanting waters. And never dreaming of floating back.

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The Fence Collective

Fence Collective is a collective of musicians based in Anstruther in the East Neuk of Fife affiliated to the Fence record label. The more established acts are often dubbed nu-folk by the press. Although the collective also features practitioners of rock and electronica. Leading acts include King Creosote, James Yorkston, Pip Dylan, Pictish Trail, Gummi Bako, The Red Well, Lone Pigeon, HMS Ginafore and MC Quake. KT Tunstall and The Beta Band have also been involved.

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Kid Canaveral

Indie pop will never die. That potted plant, that scabby hamster and your Gran - these will die. But indie-pop won't. However, Kid Canaveral don't want you thinking about death. They write songs about defunct teen magazines, with 'ba ba ba' choruses, and specialise in perfect-punky-power-pop to po-go to. Formed in 2004, in St Andrews, they are David MacGregor (voice & guitar), Dan Sheehy (drums), Kate Lazda (voice & guitar), and Rose McConnachie (voice & bass).

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Found

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a pop band from Edinburgh, who specialise in going around your living room with a dictaphone, and hoovering up all the dirty noise. They literally 'find' sounds from everyday surroundings, and make incredibly addictive and arresting pop-grooves around them. They'll make you shuffle awkwardly, with a big smile on your face.

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Hardsparrow

Exhaling from Bournemouth, Paul Hardsparrow makes mechano-jelly music about desperation and animation, mushing finger-poncked classical guitar and bongo with Casio keybooms and elemental poff-blocks. He is party to the Fence Collective and is currently working on his second album, "Blue Series Mutations", fourth album, "Meerschaum Tram", and fifth album, "Sea Tractor". His first and third albums, "Oj, What A Sorry Life" and "Sea Mountain Songs", were released by his own label (Sweet Lion) and Fence Records respectively.

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Lone Pigeon

.....For once in your life do something different.... The Lone Pigeon, AKA Gordon Anderson, was the singer/songwriter and co founder of The Beta Band, and is currently the lead singer of The Aliens, along with Robin Jones and John Maclean of the Beta Band. By the time the Beta Band signed to Regal Records, he was forced to fly home to Scotland due to mental ill-health, and subsequently proved too ill to rejoin the London based band, with Steve Mason taking over as frontman.

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Candythief

Candythief grew up bumping along pothole filled roads in south east Spanish sierra being forced to listen to her mum's Dolly Parton cassettes and her dad's medieval madrigals and Mozart in the back of the car. Cultural activity was somewhat limited to being bribed with donuts to going to Flamenco dance classes and listening to dogs barking in the heat of the evening. Still, she acquired a random and limited selection of cassettes which she would listen to again and again.

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