Bands/music from, or with a strong connection to, Glasgow and nearby towns S/D (mostly S rather than D tbh)

I've lived in Glasgow for about 14 years now and have recently begun exploring the city on foot while listening to music made by folk from here. Yesterday, I walked from Battlefield, where I live, to Cambuslang while listening to the following records (on shuffle so not 100% of each by any means), made by folk from, or with a strong connection to, Glasgow. I'm very keen to find more things to listen to while doing this, so do please let me know about anything you think is worthwhile. For reference, I think I'm defining Glasgow as anywhere that's contiguous with it or which could sensibly be associated with it. No probs with this being debated though. And, I'm very aware that there are bands from Glasgow other than those listed below. I'm just using these as a starting point.

Kode 9 and the spaceape - Memories of the future
Ivor Cutler - a wet handle
Spirea X - Fireblade skies
Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll
Bert Jansch - Avocet

Glasgow and nearby towns to include those shown on this map. By 'strong connection' I mean bands/musicians bands/musicians from the area shown or who emerged from Glasgow's music scenes. http://mapsof.net/uploads/static-maps/road_map_of_glasgow.jpg

The Cocteau Twins have got nothing to do with Glasgow.

fwiw I certainly would not consider JAMC a Glasgow band either and Bert Jansch, though born in Glasgow, was Edinburgh from top to toe.

Walking is rubbish as well. I'd abandon the whole project.

Fresh & Low

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1X59TH8IxI

Lapsus Linguae - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmT871PkLyM

Well, notwithstanding my cursory online list browsing and occasional desire to leave my house, let's keep going...

Dawson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NePH3F2hLrc

Stretchheads - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2F_JF7mIxw

This is bugging me now as I have a record in my head. I can't remember what its called or who the artist is but I think there's maybe a car on the cover and its red blue and green and I feel like the artist is from Glasgow

Altered Images!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bands_from_Glasgow

Donovan!

JAMC can't really be considered a Glasgow band imo because unlike many Lanarkshire bands (mogwai, teenage fan club) they were never based in Glasgow, it was straight down to London from EK for the brothers Reid

of the bands that have not yet been mentioned

blue nile
the wake
orange juice
deacon blue (don't @ me)

there was a poll here Best of Glasgow

JAMC were included (RONG)

B&S won (RONGER)

oh yeah Lloyd Cole and the Commotions obv

I didn't know Fresh and Low were from Glasgow

Modern stuff:

Free Love (fka Happy Meals)
Lo Kindre
Cucina Povera
Iona Fortune
Sacred Paws
LAPS

Bis

Richard Youngs

PRIMAL SCREAM

yummy fur

John Martyn

Jack Bruce

Yesterday, I walked from Battlefield, where I live, to Cambuslang

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51HAsTvrNUL._AC_SX466_.jpg

Lest we forget Éire Óg, whose seminal album "Live at the Brazen Head" is the Sgt. Pepper's of rebel music

tbh had never listened to the Battlefield Band before, can't see the wood for the trees etc, but they're good - it's the Tannahill Weavers next for me...

Kode 9 and the spaceape - Not from Glasgow
Jesus and Mary Chain - Not from Glasgow
Cocteau Twins - Not from Glasgow

tbf Neil was very clear that he was not listing bands from Glasgow

He said from or with a strong connection to tho

Vince Watson

And hi, I live in Shawlands

Konx-om-panx

'zat no' yon Giacinto Scelsi fae Carntyne?

... ran a chippie in Cranhill?

https://img.discogs.com/u06_CD6s7GsTEfH5b-jm05kF31s=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3457933-1331143312.jpeg.jpg https://img.discogs.com/XbGf6wDB7uv0scKTuuSLMP0VW3Y=/fit-in/600x598/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3936239-1414080723-8161.jpeg.jpg https://img.discogs.com/Bl1AP-P3UKIRo1-pCruLGzm-ync=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2326881-1367679941-6213.jpeg.jpg

... available at all charity shops in the West of Scotland.

He said from or with a strong connection to tho

he specifically said music made by people from or near to or connected to Glasgow, not bands from Glasgow

Kode 9 and the spaceape - Not from near to or connected to Glasgow
Jesus and Mary Chain - Not from from near to or connected to Glasgow

Kode9 was born in Glasgow, the Reid brothers grew up half an hour from Glasgow and probably walked around it as teenagers going to record shops (it took me at least an hour to get into the city as a teen, and nobody in Australia would argue that I wasn't "from Sydney").

Neil is just looking for cool recommendations of music to listen to while walking around the city, and openly soliciting ones that are better than the examples he's started with!

In the UK I don't think anybody would seriously say you're "from" somewhere an hour away, there must be at least a dozen very distinct cities that distance from where I grew up.

Christ, the distinction even between Paisley and Glasgow (a few miles apart) is huge.

Is there music that very openly telegraphs a feeling of Glasgow? or did Deacon Blue nail that back in 87?

Start The Yummy Fur revival

my bad. was a poor cut and paste. meant to say - Cocteau Twins - Not from from near to or connected to Glasgow.

I'm mainly just joshing actually, but as an East Coaster but long time resident in Glasgow, I can't have Glasgow laying claim to the Cocteaus.

East / West coast Scottish music rivalry is a serious business! Kode 9 got his music enducation in Edinburgh for example. :)

I know Neil said he was open to debate, just trying to nudge ppl back towards recommendations as well as shouting him down :)

that said though for Noodle

there must be at least a dozen very distinct cities that distance from where I grew up

yah, it depends on what you count as a city. Australia is 7.7 million square kilometres and has maybe nine of what people think of as "cities*," most of which are 2-7 days apart. Scotland is 30 sq km and has two cities, joined by a 45-minute train. Glasgow is definitely the closest proper city to the young Reids! and probably more of a musical epicentre for their formative years than East Kilbride.

(* by English standards of population size and local character and architecture and ethnographic makeup and distance nine or ten Sydney "suburbs" would probably count as cities. and we have city councils for hundreds of places that people don't count as cities mentally)

((the furthest-out suburb in Sydney, an extra Penrith, has a population of 200,000 and is a city on paper. The Australian city of Perth has a population of 2 million, vs the Scottish one's population of 47,000. My local member's electorate in inner-west Sydney - three stops from Central - is the smallest in the country, has a population of 150,000, and is 32 sq km.))

Yeah I get that, it was kinda my point. Having never been to Australia I picture it as huge and empty compared to here where two villages a mile apart will have been thinking of each other as alien territory for a thousand years or more. It's not a numbers thing, it's a bizarro state of mind.

Christ, the distinction even between Paisley and Glasgow (a few miles apart) is huge.

Indeed, just try calling someone from Paisley a Glaswegian.

Scotland is 30 sq km and has two cities, joined by a 45-minute train. Glasgow is definitely the closest proper city to the young Reids! and probably more of a musical epicentre for their formative years than East Kilbride.

There's more than two cities in Scotland. And, I can assure you, absolutely no-one in Glasgow at the time considered JAMC a Glasgow band

They looked kind of corny and provinicial, needed Boaby G pretending to play drums to give them some Glasgow hip credentials.

In Glasgow if you're from an hour out you're a teuchter. I've been called a shire boy despite growing up half a mile from the city limits

There's more than two cities in Scotland.

He knows that, it was just awkwardly worded.

Anyway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkupC8B_FQw

sic's point was that the two biggest cities are 45 minutes apart but that he had to take an hour or more to get to Sydney but still considers himself to be from there.

Should point that folk love lawyering glaswegianiaty and I dont think anyone is being a wideo to the thread starter

sic's point was that the two biggest cities are 45 minutes apart but that he had to take an hour or more to get to Sydney but still considers himself to be from there.

Right, because comparisons are so easily made between Scotland and, er, Australia! I was just looking up some population stats on Australia and, not only does Scotland not compare to Australia I'm not sure anywhere does - 90% of Australians live in cities, 40% in Sydney and Melbourne alone and the five largest cities are bigger than any city in the UK except London.

Meanwhile, I was up visiting my sister, who lives in Lochwinnoch, and she was telling me how you can tell people who are from Kilbrnie because they have Ayrshire accents - Kilbirnie is 4 miles from Lochwinnoch.

I realized I wasn't in Paisley anymore when, on driving into Lochwinnoch, the first road sign I noticed said 'Caution: Otters'.

Yeah I have a different accent from my buddies and family from baillieston and garrowhill etc. tho that's 4 or 5 miles from where I'm from

I really love this EP from The James Orr complex aka Christopher Mack on Rock Action:

http://rockaction.co.uk/releases/1878/figa_ep

I couldn't find the one that I like a lot called "slip into slumber", sadly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KlQuhl-L9s

iirc I met him once in fopp and told him I liked that EP a lot. I think he moved to Brazil.

neilasimpson, If you can find that EP called Figa I highly recommend it.

I know Neil said he was open to debate, just trying to nudge ppl back towards recommendations as well as shouting him down :)

Hasn't Neil lived in Glasgow for 14 years? If he cannae stand up for himself by now he is truly up shite creek without a paddle.

Anyway, there is probably nowt as Glaswegian as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rQ6BBc8f6Y

Hamish Imlach (Born in Calcutta but not Paisley so probably OK)

I wouldn't be so sure given the utter cuntyness up there. What a toxic thread.

The James Orr Complex guy did move to Brazil. He had previously played in Eska which was a good Glasgow band. They (eska) did a reunion gig about 9 year ago which I attended very drunkenly. They were supported by remember remember (solo show), dude from remember remember was also I'm mutliplies who were a good early 00s Glasgow band

sorry jed but hands up, I was being cheeky. however Inverness is a medium-sized town and I can't be told otherwise!


I can assure you, absolutely no-one in Glasgow at the time considered JAMC to be a Glasgow band

― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Sunday, March 8, 2020 10:28 AM (two hours ago)

well sure and nobody's really arguing tha-

They looked kind of corny and provinicial, needed Boaby G pretending to play drums to give them some Glasgow hip credentials.

― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Sunday, March 8, 2020 10:29 AM (two hours ago)

Haud, whit's this then? The wee drummer cunt who cannae move his arms in thon leather jaikit's fae Mount Florida, aye? If that doesnae make him "folk from, or with a strong connection to, Glasgow" then [&c &c, all apologies]

I realized I wasn't in Paisley anymore when, on driving into Lochwinnoch, the first road sign I noticed said 'Caution: Otters'

this is beautiful btw

awful horrible thread.

the Lochwinnoch/Kilbirnie divide is insane to me, I went to school in the catchment area that straddled the split and the hatred on either side is visceral

awful horrible thread.

As you're the only one who thinks so, I'd recommend going elsewhere.

Haud, whit's this then? The wee drummer cunt who cannae move his arms in thon leather jaikit's fae Mount Florida, aye? If that doesnae make him "folk from, or with a strong connection to, Glasgow" then [&c &c, all apologies]

Holl' ah never said Boaby wisnae fae Glesga, he grew up the in the buckfast strewn gangland o' Mount Florida efter aw.

Many thanks for the recommendations. Let's see if we can get back on track and focus more on bands than geography. How about we say that we're talking about bands from or with a strong connection to Glasgow or towns nearby, as covered by this map - http://mapsof.net/uploads/static-maps/road_map_of_Glasgow.jpg.

Assuming this doesn't cause any issues, I'll see if I can get the thread title changed to avoid further confusion.

Simple Minds
China Crisis

And yes I’d agree Deacon Blue probably nailed the Glasgow experience with Raintown (xpost)

Also, was there not also a band actually named Mount Florida?

I think you mean Mount Vernon Arts Lab possibly? China Crisis were from Liverpool.

If Paisley counts now, then it's time for my annual mention of Chou Pahrot.

https://www.oldglasgow.com/albums/userpics/10001/Glasgow_Band_Chou_Pahrot_At_The_Kelvingrove_Free_Festival_1978.jpg

https://www.discogs.com/artist/1927-Mount-Florida

i think the thread is hysterical.

snowflakes!

50% of Mount Florida was an East Coast Glasgow wannabe so definitely NOT Glaswegian.

i mean toxic. COME ON!

Here's a few glasgow faves -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rQ6BBc8f6Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FfCxLvV2nc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FfCxLvV2nc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsmS-0xHlko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yki43nPh0TM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqHMVb_fVew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICrs6gafi0I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICrs6gafi0I

Fantastic.

sorrt - cut and paste on this keyboard is a bit hit and miss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmno-URmV3M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfzNOqALWJY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amkAm3m_WX4

Honorary Glaswegian -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQbXO828Vio

Port Glaswegians - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sehOKE4vNGE and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjAFuyApRzU

last for now -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7STL7K_6FnM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7STL7K_6FnM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAMJfGlNsf4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smZDTefLZ9M

Thanks!

As often happens when I occasionally start threads, seeing the responses helps me to understand what it is that I was actually trying to get at. As mentioned, by Glasgow, I meant Glasgow and nearby towns. By 'strong connection to', I now realise that, in addition to meaning bands/musicians from that area I also meant bands/musicians who emerged from Glasgow's music scenes. I think we're pretty much there though.

Essentially, I'm trying to find out more about what Glasgow is like. I've lived here for a long time and don't feel like I know it very well at all. So, long aimless walks while listening to music that has emerged from the city and its surroundings seems to me like one useful way of getting to know it better.

I stay in Mount Florida and I didn't know Bobby Gillespie was from there

How are you coping with the violence and deprivation?

And yes I’d agree Deacon Blue probably nailed the Glasgow experience with Raintown (xpost)

Ricky Ross is from Dundee!

Pretty well tbh. There was someone shouting in the street outside my flat a while ago but I hid until they went away

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNYMdxe62fY

Check out the Vazz compilations on Stroom. They're lovely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws3KsA_pIj8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a5KBm5xJrM

Some more recent Glaswegian minimal wave (minimal weeg?) on Optimo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNHfrVyrl3A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiBQ6Sg_TG8

Some techno from Dave Clark from Kubler Ross

:)

Lung Leg - Kung Fu on the internet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCRos1vydm8

Ganger - Jellyneck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH18U_AcAGM

paolo, his da drinks in minnesota fats

I've never been in there because I'm too much of a hipster :(

No way you're hipper than R. Gillespie Sr.

as someone originally from East Kilbride I can assure you it lost its links to Glasgow long before I was born and JAMC and Aztec Camera most certainly are EK not Glasgow.

and most folk identify from the schemes they live in not the town/city they reside in

Yes, thanks. We went into that further up the thread and I've clarified that by Glasgow, I meant Glasgow and nearby towns. By 'strong connection to', I now realise that, in addition to meaning bands/musicians from that area I also meant bands/musicians who emerged from Glasgow's music scenes. I'm about to see if I can get the title changed to reflect this

no worries neil, i wasnt having a go at you

ok, thanks

For real controversy you should get it changed to 'Strathclyde' bands, lol.

This thread is hilarious proof how parochial we are up here innit. I dont think we ever grow out of primary school behaviour.

I'm sure if you did the same thing for Yorkshire or somewhere you'd have exactly the same results.

I mean, associating the Cocteau Twins with Glasgow is a bit like saying the Smiths are a product of the Birmingham music scene.

^Is there a U.S. equivalent to this? (specific band/city)

I'm sure if you did the same thing for Yorkshire or somewhere you'd have exactly the same results.

i dont doubt it.

except with Essex since half of Essex claims to be Cockney!

^Is there a U.S. equivalent to this? (specific band/city)

You mean, like New York singer songwriter, Bruce Springsteen or something?

I was wrong about the Cocteau Twins. Let's move on.

This thread is hilarious proof how parochial we are up here innit.

I think I'm actually trying to be more parochial, in a positive way.

xp or saying Dino Jr / Sebadoh were part of the “Boston scene”; or calling Modest Mouse a “Seattle band”?

Surely that happens in the US!

I've never been in there because I'm too much of a hipster :(
― paolo, Sunday, March 8, 2020 1:59 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's actually not too bad. I mean you're only getting tennents but w/e.

the mala carne-, object company-, mount florida studios-adjacent hipsters all drink in there

Let's celebrate our shiny new thread title by keeping on topic. There are other places for Glasgow pub chat. Glasgow pubs, for example.

see there's now a glasgow-themed pub in buenos aires
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glasgow-themed-pub-opened-doors-17882297

I wonder how many of the tartan army who stayed behind in 1978 are still there

found this in a second-hand shoap (in Vancouver) on sunday

https://www.discogs.com/Glen-Daly-Live-At-The-Ashfield-Glasgow/release/2326881

No Sydney Devine or Lena Martell?

sadly not, I love a bit of steak and kidney.

Fran and Anna used to attend the same chapel as me when i was an adolescent.

Ayrshire is severely lacking in musical progeny, bloke from Stealer's Wheel, bloke from Pallas, bloke from Belle & Sebastian (stayed there for a while, i"m told), terrible punk bands, one of Nazareth maybe? Idk, who else?

If you're trying to get to know a place through its music, shouldn't you be listening to stuff like the fratellis and del amitri and shite like that as well as bis or whoever?

Weirdly this is the most Glasgow-y tune I can think of, not because I like it much, but in the mainstream in Scottish music all that 'denim jacket and quiff' music was happening in the mid-late 80s and that was when I was growing up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KostJs1qRTo

bloke from Stealer's Wheel

Both from Paisley. Unless you mean the drummer or something.

Oh, I thought Joe Egan was from Largs, my bad

St Mirin's Academy old boys!

where were long fin killie from? i know luke grew up on orkney but i think they formed in glasgow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OYrpbfAYks

if you like ganger then you might like el hombre trajeado

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKXeLQFAouU

I'm guessing Glasgow, Luke was in a band called Fenn before LFK with the indefatigable Richie from Stretchheads and for about an 18 month period it seemed like they supported *every* single American band playing Glasgow, I saw them so many times.

ha there's a band like that in every scene, when i was living in manchester in the late 80s there was always this band called flea (two shouty men and a drum machine, like big black with a staff shortage) who supported seemingly every US band that played in the boardwalk, or if it wasn't them it was the slum turkeys (same deal, but with longer hair iirc)

Fenn! i hazve been trying to remember that for ages. Thanks!

They were good actually, kinda indie grunge, very Glasgow 1990, King Tuts, supporting Midway Still kinda thing.

While we're on the subject of Luke, if anyone has the CD-R of a band he was in for 5 mins with Jer from Dawson and a few others (maybe Howie from El Hombre too) called 'Shlebie' I'd love to hear that again, lost my copy in a house move.

of all the dumb things I've seen on ILM, this - from that Best of Glasgow poll - is unquestionably the dumbest:

Teenage Fanclub 0

i saw them several times but can't remember anything about their music.

x post

I can't find anything about them online but I reckon I'm getting the spelling wrong.

Increasingly feel the most interesting Glasgow music of the past few years is that which doesn't telegraph its "Glasgow-ness" - whatever that means - too much. And there's always a risk of falling into authentocracy/parochialism/nativism when trying to define it.
The Glasgow indie traditions of the 80s and 90s - whether it's twee indie pop or dour post-rock - feel increasingly played out and the further away we get from them the better tbh.
The stuff GLARC has put out over the past few years has been great, especially Still House Plants, Bamya, Quinie and Horse Whisperer. https://glarc.bandcamp.com/
Comfort absolutely rule and should be getting way more attention than they have so far.
That soft issues tape on Penultimate Press is grrrreat.
Cucina Povera, Helena Celle, Mercuro Chrome, Fritz Welch, Tony Bevan, Caroline McKenzie, Kapil Seshasayee, Stable...
Also intrigued by the mysterious graed. Anyone know who it might be? https://www.lowcompany.co.uk/products/decibels

el hombre were good. rm hubbert fae el hombre is v good too, tho i never kept up with him when he started doing stuff with aidan fae arab strap (I'd probably enjoy it).

im going to try and get more up to date with glasgow stuff, that list will be very helpful, stew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDa14HUiscg

Strawberry Switchblade - Trees and Flowers

A pleasure Jim. Howie from El Hombre is still doing lots of interesting stuff, as is Jer from Dawson, P6 from Stretcheads et al. I do feel the official narrative of 90s Glasgow has tended to write out those guys, mainly cos they didn't enjoy the same commercial success as their peers and are harder to fit into the narrative, but they're such energetic and supportive figures.
Luke Sutherland's current band Rev Magnetic are worth checking out and he's done some improv stuff with Tony Bevan, Jer Reid et al. Great musician!

still fucking love this song...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67rn5rUBbP4

Telstar Ponies - Farewell, Farewell

xx-post soft tissues that is! Soft Issues are a noise/punk band from Leeds.

another good folky one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A204YG53ZRg

Trembling Bells - Willows of Carbeth

Shelagh McDonald was Glasgow based wasn't she?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP15bKvUpdw

Dick Gaughan - Craigie Hill

does anyone know that crazy rave record about celtic, possibly specifically about henrik larsson? i'm looking at you stirmonster - i think eclair fifi played it on her nts show once? i might be misremembering one or more of the details on this mind you

Oh God, lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQDxQKxsKvc

FUCK YES!!!

oh boy tune is everything

*that*

Shelagh MacDonald and Dick Gaughan both Edinburgh

i think shelagh was born in edinburgh but moved to glasgow, and dick was born in glasgow and then moved to edinburgh. so yes and no!

I would rather hang out with Nadine Dorries than have to listen to that Henrik Larsson tune.

haha!

Glasgow Post Rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH18U_AcAGM&feature=emb_title

Dick Gaughan is about as Edinburgh as it's possible to be.

I dunno what this kind of music is but it's lovely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQRRAJ4XxIQ

I think it possible to be more Edinburgh than Dick Gaughan.

tom has seen dick taking a slash iirc so i'll take his word on this one

maybe he has some sort of edinburgh tattoo on his cock - once a year by the castle *boom-tish*

sorry

I can't find anything about them online but I reckon I'm getting the spelling wrong.

thread redeemed by henrik tune

Henrik tune is a pure tune btw

XXXP - Thanks Tomboto!

Cant believe theres no DJ Rankin or DJ Badboy in this thread yet

More Glasgow post rock - https://soundcloud.com/lcasioimmunitas. And, I posted that Ganger track further up. Probably worth posting at least twice though

ah, sorry for the double post. fits in well with all my other double posts. :)

Slight bias but current fave new Glasgow bands.

https://soundcloud.com/optimo-music/optimo-music-digital-danceforce-023-pleasure-pool-night-scars-ep

https://soundcloud.com/optimo-music/om-44-d-resili-cups-mini-album-sampler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEz4_X7tshg

Really enjoying this thread now. Thank you all!

Asparagus Piss Raindrop - https://asparaguspissraindrop.wordpress.com/

Stumbled across a website for The List, which seems to have an entire browsing archive.

Made me a wee bit nostalgic upon seeing the music listing section circa '91, the days when Barky Barky and Hugh Reed and the Velvet Underpants were playing every week somewhere.

https://archive.list.co.uk/the-list/1991-11-22/40/

I don't think anyone's mentioned Sacred Paws yet

Gentle Giant don't quite count.

I'd never heard of Pub until his Do You Ever Regret Pantomime? album was reissued recently. It's very good ambient/IDM/electronica, recommended if you like Boards Of Canada

Does anyone not like Boards Of Canada? I've never met anyone who doesn't

See the BoC thread.

Most of their tunes are underdeveloped vignettes,drum programming is leaden and unadventurous. I mean I quite like them but they're not unimpeachable

Pub was new to me to! I kind of hate Borads of Canada but i like that Pub record

was sold from the moment i saw the cover tbh

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2108186735_10.jpg

New to me too,will check it out

That is an extremely Scottish image

https://unclejohnwhitelock.bandcamp.com/track/aleister-crowley

Jascob Yates - https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/track/michael

just went on a stray google and discovered you did that record with him in 2018!!