Favorite Scottish Bands?

StefB

As usual thread quickly turns into 'list as many Scottish born artists as you can'...

Kilgore

StefB said:

As usual thread quickly turns into 'list as many Scottish born artists as you can'...

In that case... 


Rod Stewart. 

digitalkettle

StefB said:

As usual thread quickly turns into 'list as many Scottish born artists as you can'...

Good point...here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scottish_musicians

All done...next!

andyp

StefB said:

As usual thread quickly turns into 'list as many Scottish born artists as you can'...

Genuine question. How else can it be defined?

Annie Lennox hasn’t been mentioned yet I don’t think. Amy MacDonald and KT Tunstall as well.

PhilW1

Scot(t) Gorham

StefB

andyp said:

StefB said:

As usual thread quickly turns into 'list as many Scottish born artists as you can'...

Genuine question. How else can it be defined?

Annie Lennox hasn’t been mentioned yet I don’t think. Amy MacDonald and KT Tunstall as well.

The title of the thread is Favorite (sic) Scottish Bands.

Are Lewis Capaldi, Mark Knopfler & Annie Lennox really anyone on here's favourite Scottish bands?  Or are they just being listed as examples of Scottish born artists no-one else in the thread has yet mentioned?

Litterick

Josef K, Shop Assistants, Orange Juice, Aztec Camera, The Pastels.

Kilgore

StefB said:

andyp said:

StefB said:

As usual thread quickly turns into 'list as many Scottish born artists as you can'...

Genuine question. How else can it be defined?

Annie Lennox hasn’t been mentioned yet I don’t think. Amy MacDonald and KT Tunstall as well.

The title of the thread is Favorite (sic) Scottish Bands.

Are Lewis Capaldi, Mark Knopfler & Annie Lennox really anyone on here's favourite Scottish bands?  Or are they just being listed as examples of Scottish born artists no-one else in the thread has yet mentioned?

Until this thread, I didn't know Knopfler was Scottish. I've learned something I didn't know before.

It's all good. 

StefB

Kilgore said:

 Until this thread, I didn't know Knopfler was Scottish. I've learned something I didn't know before.

It's all good. 

Everyday is a school day :-)

But as I say, he's been listed purely because he was born in Glasgow and not in response to the theme of the thread.

You could ask a thousand people to list their ten favourite Scottish bands and not a single one would include Mark Knopfler if they stuck to the question's brief.

My original comment was to highlight how quickly threads veer off topic and thus become irrelevant.  Exact same thing happened with the Best British Bands ever thread.

EricTheWeary

sandyp said:

StefB said:

As usual thread quickly turns into 'list as many Scottish born artists as you can'...

Genuine question. How else can it be defined?

Annie Lennox hasn’t been mentioned yet I don’t think. Amy MacDonald and KT Tunstall as well.

I mentioned KT in passing, as she's not a band I didn't think she counted for the purpose of the Discussion. 

Lennox was in The Tourists but apart from her I don't think any of the rest were Scottish. 

However, if throwing around individual artists I didn't mind a bit of Finley Quaye ( who I think went a bit underground after a conviction for assault?). 

rustneversleeps

None !

digitalkettle

EricTheWeary said:

Lennox was in The Tourists but apart from her I don't think any of the rest were Scottish. 

Similarly, I always thought Ultravox* were scottish (due to Midge obviously) but they were a London band.

* guilty pleasure of mine

Whitecat

For me there's Frightened Rabbit, and then way below them is literally everyone else.

Edit: except Mogwai. Forgot about them, they are also god tier.

Philly_Q

I tried to make a case for AC/DC on the Best British Bands thread, so I'll try again here.

Anyone mentioned Heavy Pettin? 

The Almighty.  Holocaust. 

I've got to mention the late great Jimmy Dewar from the Robin Trower band.

McSwaggerty said:

Phil Campbell

Presumably the bloke from The Temperance Movement, not the ex-Motorhead guitarist?

EricTheWeary

Have we had a bit of Altered Images yet? 

Interesting reading how they started as a group of Banshees fans and their first gigs were supporting them. You can really hear the influence.



  

Rocker

Bay City Rollers
Thin Lizzie (Brian Robertson)

Koa

This compilation came out recently, from memory I think there may have been a film released around the same time?

https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/big-gold-dreams-a-story-of-scottish-independent-music-1977-1989-5cd-boxset/

Stuckfast

Not a band, but Alasdair Roberts is the best ballad singer the folk revival has ever produced IMO. And he is definitely properly 100 percent Scottish. And a fine guitarist to boot.

EricTheWeary

Rocker said:

Bay City Rollers
Thin Lizzie (Brian Robertson)

I think we are bit by bit over different Discussions making the claim that Thin Lizzy came from most corners of the world. Formed by three Irish guys one of whom was born in England but of Guianan descent. The band also featured English, Scottish ( Roberston and Ure) and American musicians at different times as well as a chap from Belfast on and off. I'm sure I'm missing a Russian or Polish connection somewhere... 

Redlester

Philly_Q said:

I tried to make a case for AC/DC on the Best British Bands thread, so I'll try again here.

Anyone mentioned Heavy Pettin? 

The Almighty.  Holocaust. 

I've got to mention the late great Jimmy Dewar from the Robin Trower band.

McSwaggerty said:

Phil Campbell

Presumably the bloke from The Temperance Movement, not the ex-Motorhead guitarist?

As I said at the time, AC/DC have a bagpipe solo in 'It's a Long Way to the Top", and therefore are indelibly, indisputably Scottish. 

Angus is called Angus. 

He is also very short, smokes a lot and probably has hairy little legs, so how much more Scottish can you get? 


Big Country are brilliant and always sadly overlooked in my book. If "Chance" is not one of the best songs ever written on Scottish soil then I'm a...er...Scotsman. 

And if we're going for solo artistes, can I give an honourable mention to another sadly overlooked performer- taken from us far too soon- Jackie Leven.