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Postcards From Scotland
''Postcards from Scotland'' is a 2024 book by Scottish film director Grant McPhee that covers Scotland's 1980's and 1990's independent music scene. It focuses on the stories of The Pastels, Shop Assistants, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream, The Soup Dragons, BMX Bandits, The Vaselines, Eugenius, Jesse Garon, and the Desperadoes, Finitribe, The Motorcycle Boy, The Big Gun, and Rote Kapelle. The book was launched with two live events featuring a ‘supergroup’ made up of members of Shop Assistants, BMX Bandits, Fizzbombs, Rote Kapelle and Jesse Garon and the Desperadoes while being backed by The Cords. A second volume has been completed and will be released by Omnibus books. This volume tells an alternative story of Scotland's Underground Music scene during a similar time-frame, featuring Dawson, Badgewearer, Stretcheads, The Yummy Fur, Lung Leg, Mogwai, Bis, Chemikal Underground, The Delgadoes, Belle and Sebastian, Arab Strap and Franz Ferdinand. Reception ''Pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grant McPhee
Grant McPhee is a Scottish film director, cinematographer and writer. His films include the music documentaries '' Big Gold Dream'', '' Teenage Superstars'' and the drama, '' Far From the Apple Tree'' starring Sorcha Groundsell. He won the prestigious audience choice award in 2015 for his film Big Gold Dream at the 2015 edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. In television, he worked as a second unit director and cinematographer on '' ''Outlander''''. He has written articles for The National, I News, Clash Music, Caught by the River, Louder Than War, Bella Caledonia and the books Hungry Beat (as co-writer) published by White Rabbit Books, Postcards From Scotland published by Omnibus Books and a soon to be released book on Glasgow’s 1990’s underground music scene. In 2022, he co-wrote the book, Hungry Beat, an oral history of Scottish Post-Punk music which was published by White Rabbit Books. This was followed by Postcards from Scotland 1980's and 1990's indepe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesse Garon (musician)
Jessé Garon (born 1 August 1962 in La Rochelle La Rochelle (, , ; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''La Rochéle'') is a city on the west coast of France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime Departments of France, department. Wi ..., France) is a French artist, composer, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist of blues, country, rock'n'roll. Career He became known in 1983 with songs including "C'est Lundi" (1st prize Interpress of French Song, 1984), "Lucky Dom Dom", "Nous Deux "("With You" in English; clip n° 1 in New York and Tokyo in summer 1985), "Le Prince du Rock'n'roll" (1986), "Elle n'a pas dit Oui" (1993), "Je Suis un Bohème" (2004) and others. He is a student of the Bible of the High Medieval PHE-Sorbonne, 1993–2003and has a degree in medicinal science, with a specialization in naturopathy MCC of Montreal, in February 2002 to 20 March 2006 From 2003 to 2004 he was scientific director fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Books About Scotland
History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some theorists categorize history as a social science, while others see it as part of the humanities or consider it a hybrid discipline. Similar debates surround the purpose of history—for example, whether its main aim is theoretical, to uncover the truth, or practical, to learn lessons from the past. In a more general sense, the term ''history'' refers not to an academic field but to the past itself, times in the past, or to individual texts about the past. Historical research relies on primary and secondary sources to reconstruct past events and validate interpretations. Source criticism is used to evaluate these sources, assessing their authenticity, content, and reliability. Historians strive to integrate the perspectives of several sources to develop a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louder Than War
''Louder Than War'' is a music and culture website and magazine focusing on mainly alternative arts news, reviews, and features. The site is an editorially independent publication that was started by the English musician and journalist John Robb in 2010 and is now co-run by a team of other journalists with a worldwide team of freelancers. There was a print edition from 2015 until 2020. The site is built around live reviews, album reviews and interviews. In 2012, ''Louder Than War'' launched a record label to promote and champion lesser known bands and artists. History In its first year, in November 2011, Robb was voted to win the UK Association of Independent Music "Indie Champion" award. Louder Than War created the record label Louder Than War Records in 2014, to act as a platform for bands and artists to reach a wider audience. The first release was Evil Blizzard's ''The Dangers Remixes'', a 300-copy CD-only release without a catalogue number, each being hand numbered; the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Issue
''The Big Issue'' is a United Kingdom–based street newspaper founded by John Bird and Gordon Roddick in September 1991 and published in four continents. ''The Big Issue'' is one of the UK's leading social businesses and exists to offer homeless people, or individuals at risk of homelessness, the opportunity to earn a legitimate income, thereby helping them to reintegrate into mainstream society. It is the world's most widely circulated street newspaper. History Inspired by '' Street News'', a newspaper sold by homeless people in New York City, ''The Big Issue'' was founded in 1991 by John Bird and Gordon Roddick (husband of The Body Shop entrepreneur Anita Roddick) as a response to the increasing numbers of homeless people in London. The Body Shop provided the equivalent of $50,000 in start-up capital. The magazine was initially published monthly but in June 1993 ''The Big Issue'' went weekly. The venture continued to expand with national editions being established in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rote Kapelle (band)
Rote Kapelle were a post-punk/indie pop band from Edinburgh, Scotland, active during the 1980s. Its band members included musicians who were also members of Jesse Garon and the Desperadoes and The Shop Assistants. History The band was formed in the early 1980s by Andrew Tully (vocals) and Marguerite Vasquez-Ponte (vocals), both of whom would also form Jesse Garon and the Desperadoes, with Chris Henman (guitar), Ian Binns (keyboards, also a member of The Stayrcase), Malcolm Kergan (bass, also a member of The Thanes), and Jonathan Muir (drums).Strong, Martin C. (1999) "The Great Alternative & Indie Discography", Canongate, The band's debut release was ''The Big Smell Dinosaur'' EP in late 1985, after which they were signed by Marc Riley's In-Tape label. Tully described the band's sound in 1987 as a blend of noisy post-punk and anorak pop.Pake, Trevor (1987) "Rote Kapelle", ''Underground'', December 1987 (Issue 9), p. 35 Vasquez-Ponte was also a member of a third band, The Fizzb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Motorcycle Boy
The Motorcycle Boy were a Scottish indie pop band formed in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1987 by former members of Meat Whiplash and Shop Assistants. History The band consisted of Alex Taylor (vocals, formerly of Shop Assistants), Paul McDermott (drums), Michael Kerr (guitar), and Eddy Connelly (bass) (all formerly of Meat Whiplash), and David "Scottie" Scott (guitar). They were signed by Rough Trade Records, who issued their debut single, "Big Rock Candy Mountain", which reached number 2 in the UK Independent Chart. The band were then signed by Chrysalis Records, with two singles, but failed to achieve great success despite considerable press attention. Their debut album ''Scarlet'' (which had additional drumming by Anthony Cooper and keyboards from former Jesse Garon and the Desperadoes, Jesse Garon and The Desperadoes guitarist Stuart Clarke) was never released. The band then split with Chrysalis, with two further singles released on the Nymphaea Pink Sensation label in 1990, befor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
