Favorite Scottish Bands?

Cranky

I was visiting Scotland last summer and found myself wondering, who are my favorite Scottish bands?  And then I thought, how many Scottish bands do I even know?  

And then I drank some Scotch and stopped wondering anything at all for a while.

But now I'm at it again.  Without using any wikis, here's my embarrassingly short list of bands that I know of and have enjoyed who I'm vaguely aware of having been Scottish:

The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Proclaimers
The Fratellis
The Notorious B.I.G.
Bagpipes

So that's it then.  I'm sure there's others that I just can't recall at the moment.  Kindly set me straight and add to my list so that I can get to listening.

lovestrat74

AC/DC

and... 

drofluf

Off the top of my  head Aztec Camera, Mogwai, Belle and Sebastian, Primal Scream, Arab Strap, Snow Patrol, Deacon Blue, King Creosote, Camera Obscura, Red Hot Chilli Pipers  

I'm pretty sure that they're all Scottish

Grunfeld

Right now favourite Scottish band is easy cos I've been playing Gerry Cinnamon's The Bonny every day this week. 

Favourite track:

Gerry Cinnamon, Where We're Going

lovestrat74

Singer song writers:

Gerry Rafferty
Rod Stewart 
Frankie Miller
Paolo Nutini

munckee

Simple Minds and soup dragons. 

GavRichList

The Twilight Sad

lovestrat74

Mc Fly  

GoldenEraGuitars

Simple minds, Texas, ACDC

west

Hamish stuart /  Average white band ...

VimFuego

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHGk5aTohng

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP8A9rtg0iI

just a couple that spring to mind. 

EricTheWeary

One of the first bands I saw live were Nazareth. Some great moments in their career. 

Fond memories of going to see Del Amitri. 

I like a bit of Average White Band. 

Still need to see Bomskare live one day, rather awesome ( they share a bassist with KT Tunstall these days I think) 

https://youtu.be/C1mJRmM7Ql4

west

not_the_dj

Big Country!

https://youtu.be/19eti8Lf2Zo

breezytele

Sensational Alex Harvey Band.  

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

not_the_dj

Idlewild

https://youtu.be/KQ4NCiMBku0

Kilgore

The Marmalade. 
This is by far their biggest hit and  resonated with many US troops in Vietnam at the time. 

GavRichList

not_the_dj said:

Idlewild

https://youtu.be/KQ4NCiMBku0

I too like Idlewild, however once you become aware of Roddy The Womble's lyric construction formulae it does begin to grate a little.

I go to look in the mirror
but there's no mirror
I cant look in the mirror
'cause there's no mirror


I like to eat potatoes
delicious potatoes
but the shop had no potatoes
so I cant have potatoes

etc

horse

Teenage Fanclub

MagicPigDetective

Many great bands from Scotland. Teenage Fanclub, BMX Bandits, The Vaselines/Captain America/Eugenius, Mogwai, Arab Strap, Primal Scream, Primal Scream, Mary Chain, Beta Band, Glasvegas, Orange Juice, The Pastels etc etc 

We have some Fretboarders who've been in bands, calling @ewal and @camf , (Fenn and The Cateran) I'm sure they could name a hell of a lot more. @camf 's new band, Borrowed Books:

https://borrowedbooks.bandcamp.com/album/shorting-out-and-longing


My current favourite are the incomparable Cocteau Twins. 

Jonathangus

Gun.
And not really a fan, but Biffy Clyro deserve a mention.