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

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!!