For the 60 's band 'The gun' please see this page - http://www.last.fm/music/The+Gun GUN (1987 - 1997 2008 - onwards) hail from Glasgow in Scotland. They started out as Blind allez then 'Phobia', finally settling on the name GUN on signing a record deal with A&M.
Early gigs saw them touring with Simple Minds and the Rolling Stones whilst at the same time selling out their own headline shows.
When three young lads met at College in Edinburgh, Coholic was born. When summer came and college was over, Coholic died. With the departure of one of the best young drummers in Scotland and the talented bass player's thirst to study in London, Coholic was but one man. Something had to be done. After a long rebirthing process Coholic is now on the rise. Singer and founding member Chris has recruited long time friend Jamie, to take over on bass and the ginger magic of Chris Smith to play keys.
Ceilidh Minogue offer the Scottish dance music coinnoisseur a wider selection of flavours than usual to tempt the tastebuds. On this, their introductory menu, the Minogues present the worthy haggis, neeps and tatties fayre of Burns, Gow and pipe melodies, complemented by less familiar Scottish and Irish traditional dishes, all served up in a fresh style alongside some original recipes. The ingredients? Master tunesters Gregor Lowrey and Gavin Marwick provide the zing on accordion and fiddle...
Alasdair Fraser is a Scottish fiddler who is based in California and runs his own record label, Culburnie Records. He also founded the Valley of the Moon Scottish Fiddle School, which has been attended by many of today's prominent young fiddlers, including Hanneke Cassel, Laura Risk, Athena Tergis, Brittany Haas, and Lissa Schneckenburger. He has often collaborated with pianist Paul Machlis and Scottish guitarist Tom McManus, among others.
To Our Glorious Death are a 5-piece hardcore outfit from Aberdeen, Scotland. In their shortlived time a band, they have shared stages with the likes of My Minds Weapon, Lavondyss, The Arusha Accord and Bleed From Within. Redefined in 2009 with a new line up and new material TOGD are pushing and experimenting at every turn to bring a different idea to tech based death metal.
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Born February 24, 1948 in Edinburgh, Scotland, vocalist Maggie Nicols (or Nichols as her name was written in former days) has worked on almost every kind of project. At the age of 15 she left school and started to work as a dancer at the Windmill Theatre. Her first singing engagement was in a strip club in Manchester at the age of 16. About that time she became obsessed with Jazz and started singing with revolutionary bebop pianist Dennis Rose. From then on she sang jazz standards and originals in pubs, clubs, hotels and in dance bands with some of the finest jazz musicians around.
