The Wombats and Jim Gellatly representing Pop Noir in Scotland!
Here's the Wombats after their set on the main stage at Scotland's RockNess Festival with DJ Jim Gellatly, representing Pop Noir!
Tord wearing the shirt onstage. Brilliant!
(Photo by Aaron Sneddon)
Also, we're featured on Jim Gellatly's New Music Podcast on radiomagnetic.com!
Click this link to listen... It's also available on iTunes...
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NEW SONG: "Guns Of Marinello"
Posted 1/15/2008 11:00 PM by theprayers
Tags: The Byrds, Football, Scotland, Peter Marinello, George Best, The Beatles, Firearms
Of the new songs that we are currently recording, and playing live, Guns Of Marinello seems to be the crowd favourite. It is my favourite as well, but that is probably because I had a lot to do with its inception. The song is an homage to the great Scottish football player Peter Marinello, who's magnificent skills, on and off the pitch, inspired the title "Scotland's George Best." This is a title that any kid during the sixties would've given both his arms to be dubbed. Young Marinello gave it all and eventually all of it came crashing down. His reckless story and our impressive adaptation will have you dancing and drinking, and then wanting to purchase a firearm to shoot down your rival.
- Love, Charles
Band Of The Day #17 - BROKEN RECORDS "If Eilert Lovborg Wrote A Song It Would Sound Like This"
It can be hard to ‘sell’ something to time-pushed, attention-leaking listeners, especially when you come ‘round cold-calling talking up the virtues of “delirium-induced vocals” or “mild-mannered madness”. There’s nothing mad at all, really, about Scotland's Broken Records; emerging as they do with everything talked-up as ‘epic’, ‘anthemic’ or ‘huge’ ever since Arcade Fire swept into view with Funeral at the tail end of 2004.
The Edinburgh-based septet are certainly a grandiose and at times overwhelming proposition, especially taken in headphones; this particular artefact creeping with Balkan-Schmalkan string before trotting along at a wide, loping canter that breaks into a run for the, yes, chorus. When ‘If Eilert Lovborg Wrote a Song, It Would Sound Like This’ slows in the middle to fill its big lungs you know not much else can happen after the respite apart from the, yes, chorus again; but you will it on anyway.
Listening, you get the impression that Broken Records will be big in more ways than one this year.
Download: Broken Records - ‘If Eilert Lovborg Wrote a Song, It Would Sound Like This’
Feature: It’s great in 2008, yeah: DiS’s Early Doors picks
Review: Broken Records – Broken Records EP
- Kev Kharas
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