Stob Dearg
Intense Scottish black metal heavily old school thrash influenced with folk elements and folkish lyrical themes. Feel the power of the broadsword.
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The Phantom Band
The Phantom Band are scottish proto-robofolk band from Glasgow. Members: Duncan De Cornell (Guitars & Fast Cars) Gerrard "Hartbreak" Harvard (Bass & Big Business) Andrew T Oxford (Keyboards & Cheeseboards) "Richard The Turd" Princeton (Harmonies & Libraries) Damien Duke Stanford (Drums & The Law) and Greg Yale (Pedals, Gold Medals, Banjos & ASBO's). The Phantom Band are known for their elusive tendencies, for instance by continually changing their name for each gig or release and by appearing in disguise.
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The Xcerts
THE XCERTS; story began around the turn of the century when then 13-year-olds Murray MacLeod (vocals, guitar) and Jordan Smith (bass, vocals) met in the headmaster’s office of their school in Aberdeen. In 2006 they relocated to Brighton and met drummer and Exeter exile Tom Heron, where the line-up of THE XCERTS was finalised. After a barrage of dates with Future of the left, Bat for Lashes, Biff Clyro, Make Model, Cage the Elephant, Brakes, Get Cape.Wear Cape.
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The Ciazarn Affair
The Ciazarn Affair are a 4 piece band based in Glasgow, Scotland in 2012. They mix their solid pop punk and rock influences with "experimental" orchestral arrangements and throw in anything else they find along the way to create a unique and new sound that the UK music scene has not yet witnessed. This and their energetic live performances combined make them a force to be reckoned with and a band to watch from now on. www.facebook.com/TheCiazarnAffair Members
Ross Mercer - Vocals
Ryan Aitken - Guitar/Vocals
Blair Duddy - Bass
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AroarA
Two groups currently record under the moniker AroarA: There is the "industrial-goth-hobo" husband-wife power duo of Broken Social Scene guitarist and Apostle Of Hustle frontman Andrew Whiteman and Ariel Engle, formed in 2011. The two plan on releasing an EP interpreting experimental poet Alice Notley's "In The Pines" with their own experimental somber-folk with programmed dance beats, presumably to be released this year. The band is also said to be working on their proper full-length album. Whiteman plays a fretless North African goatskin banjo and Engle plays a four-string cigar box guitar.
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Human Don't Be Angry
Malcolm Middleton's new guitar-focused project
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Brutal Attack
One of the most long lived Rock Against Communism bands in existence, fronted by Ken McLellan.
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Idlewild
Idlewild started out at a flat party in Edinburgh in 1995 where founding band members met and found common ground in musical tastes. The starting line up was Roddy Woomble, Rod Jones, Colin Newton and Phil Scanlon. Scanlon was soon replaced by Bob Fairfoull. Appearing in 1996 as an angry band of Scottish punks with Woomble of Carnoustie leading the band, Idlewild eventually achieved commercial recognition by refining their taste for large-scale guitar rock, and combining it with an apparently unknown gift for melody and tenderness.
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Garbage
Garbage is a Scottish-American alternative rock band formed in 1994 at Madison, Wisconsin, USA. The group members are Shirley Manson (vocals, guitars), Steve Marker (guitars, keyboards), Duke Erikson (guitars, keyboards, bass), and Butch Vig (drums, percussion). Erikson, Marker and Vig are also producers and remixers (Vig is best known for producing Nevermind by Nirvana). To date, the band sold over 17 million albums worldwide.
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The Singing Kettle
The Singing Kettle is a folk music group who are well known for performing traditional children's songs with a distinctly Scottish flair. The group began in the mid 1980's with the husband and wife team of Cilla Fisher and Artie Trezise, building on their success as folk musicians as "Cilla and Artie". Their first venture under "The Singing Kettle" was a children's album, featuring everything from traditional Scottish rhymes to songs learned on their folk tour of the states. For certain tracks, real children were used, including their daughter Jane, creating the first set of "Kettle Kids".
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