Blank Canvas (Callum, Daniel, Douglas, Arran) are a young Edinburgh band influenced by the likes of Radiohead, Animal Collective, Talking Heads and Good Shoes. They've been gigging around Scotland for several years, and have had live sessions on XFM and Leith FM. www.facebook.com/blankcanvas1
Sucioperro are a three piece from Ayr in Scotland, who play spiralling off kilter alt-rock. They are indeed alt-rock but they go beyond this as a band. They've cited their influences as Rage Against the Machine, Crowded House, Pearl Jam, Tool, Jimmy Eat World, Talking Heads, The Police, Prince and "anything vibed/energetic/real". This mix of musical influences all comes out in their live show, which is something that you simply cannot miss.
The Scottish Enlightenment formed in Fife, Scotland in 2004 as a four piece and went through a number of line-up reshuffles before settling as a four piece (although live show often feature additional musicians). From early on the band was involved with the Moojuice Records collective - a group of musicians/producers based in Fife. The Scottish Enlightenment's first release was a 7 track mini-album on the Moojuice label, entitled Volo ut Sis, which was restricted to 120 copies. Three of the tracks on that Album formed the band's second release, the "Eyes" E.
A young and vibrant addition to the folk scene, Threepenny Bit folk and ceilidh band was formed from an unlikely combination of student-types in Southampton in 2010. Consisting of suitcase percussion, fiddle, flute, guitar and clarinet, they play a wide range of Irish, English, Cornish, Breton and Scottish diddly-dee music with a hint of klezmer! Threepenny Bit set the trend for “Half Price Busking” in the Summer of 2010, when they embarked upon a busking campaign to spread folk music to the four corners of Southern England.
Lives in Isle of Skye, Scotland. Founder member of Gaelic group, Runrig. Is a prolific composer of tunes, mainly Scottish and Cajun.
Ross Clark - Vocals, Guitar, Ocean war. The Scarfs Go Missing =
David Cleary - Guitar, Ocean War
Fhearghas Lyon - Drums, Ocean War
Kevin Mackay - Bass, Ocean War
Unkle Bob are Rick Webster (vocals, guitar), Stuart Cartwright (vocals, guitar, banjo, mandolin), Ron Yeadon (drums, percussion), Tad MacDonald (bass) and Geoff Widdowson (keyboards). Formed in and around Glasgow University in the last few years, Unkle Bob have an uncanny knack of sounding like they've been hanging around your record collection your whole life. Unkle Bob released 'Put a Record On' on February 19th 2007.
Born in Scotland, hard rock vocalist Terry McDermott moved to the U.S. to pursue his singing career. A member of bands Driveblind and Lotus Crush, he's best known for being a a contestant on the third season of NBC musical television series 'The Voice', singing for the team lead by country music superstar Blake Shelton. He finished in second place behind winner Cassadee Pope. During the program, McDermott performed energetic versions of classic rock hits such as "More Than Feeling", "Baba O'Reily", "Let It Be", and "I Want to Know What Love Is".
Read more about Terry McDermott on Last.fm.
A band from the Southwest of England that has been described as prog, indie punk. They have also won best unsigned band of the week on Steve Lamacq's BBC 6music radio show. More information can be found at: http://www.myspace.com/scientisttheorangepip