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Peenko’s Scots Way-Hay! – Come on Gang!
On Friday, Come on Gang! released their new single ‘Fortune Favours The Brave’, it’s one of the best pop songs I have heard all year, and not only that, but they’re also giving it away for free. If you’ve never come across the Edinburgh trio then boy are you in for one hell of a […]
September 15, 2010
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Peenko’s Scots Way-Hay! – The Son(s)
There’s a certain amount of irony in me posting about a band called The Son(s) in the week that I had a beautiful baby daughter. But that’s enough about my private (or not so private) life, on to The Son(s), one of the greatest bands in Scotland that you’ve probably still to have heard of.
September 8, 2010
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Peenko’s Scots Way-Hay! – A Band Called Quinn
I’ve featured a lot of indie folk-pop bands recently, so I thought it was about time that I branched out a little. A Band Called Quinn are most certainly pop, but there’s no folk to be had here, this is electro-pop done at it’s finest.
September 1, 2010
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Peenko’s Scots Way-Hay! – Yahweh
The first time I heard Yahweh was back last year on the inaugural Under the Radar podcast, there was a lot of great tracks on the show, but for me this was the one that stood out. Later that week I found myself in Avalanche Records in Glasgow (now Love Music, although it will always […]
August 25, 2010
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Peenko’s Scots Way-Hay! – The Social Services
It’s a funny wee world. I have been running the Peenko blog for almost two years and I honestly can’t quite believe how many cracking local bands I have ‘discovered’. The one thing that I hadn’t fully expected was to have my little sister ask me if I had heard of one of her best […]
August 18, 2010
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Peenko’s Scots Way-Hay! – Call To Mind
I think I have started to notice a pattern to these posts, I have a tendency to find myself having back to back posts from bands of the same geographical areas. Last week I had Highland duo Bronto Skylift, and this week I have gone with another band from the same neck of the woods.
August 11, 2010
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Peenko’s Scots Way-Hay! – The Seventeenth Century
It was roughly about a month ago that I was up at the goNorth festival, and I came back raving about a couple of bands that are based in Glasgow. Don’t you just love the irony of me travelling hundreds of miles to catch artists that I could quite easily see in my own backyard? […]
July 28, 2010
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Peenko’s Scots Way-Hay! – Mayhew
Take an Australian, a Frenchman, a Scot and a couple of Mancunians and what have you got? No, not the start of some crappy joke, they are in fact a cracking wee Edinburgh based band that got me just a little bit excited a couple of months ago.
July 21, 2010
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Peenko’s Scots Way-Hay! – Cancel the Astronauts
I first saw ‘Cancel the Astronauts’ last year in Edinburgh. Worryingly, the venue looked like a shabby school sports hall and there were cupcakes at the bar. Then when the band bounded on stage my only thoughts were: ‘The singer is wearing trackie bottoms? Well, this is going to be bollocks’. How wrong I was.
July 14, 2010