Scottish Bands part 1

[John Peel is My Co-pilot]

For a wee country of only 5 million or so, Scotland is pretty well represented at Coachella with 3 bands on the lineup. In honor of this, how about a couple of polls about your favorite Scottish bands. You can vote for multiple bands.

[Tylerdurden31]

Mogwai...I'm done

[bballarl]

Mogwai, Belle & Sebastian, Teenage Fanclub, JAMC, Franz Ferdinand, Aztec Camera, a bunch more that are probably listed in this thread

[full on idle]

Camera Obscura

[hangthedj112]

Boards of Canada, by far.

[John Peel is My Co-pilot]

Yup, Camera Obscura just lost out to the "10 choices per poll" rule.

I'm enjoying "Let's Get Out Of This Country" quite a bit at the mo...

[apachedino]

BoC, Mogwai and Camera Obscura would be my top three.....where are The Frames from? Ireland, anyways I have been diggin them lately.

[snowgirl_69]

Biffy clyro....AMAZING!

[MrAmeche]

10 Scottish groups I like to some extent:
Mogwai
Orange Juice
Incredible String Band
Boards of Canada
Teenage Fanclub
Jesus and Mary Chain
Cocteau Twins
Arab Strap
Josef K
Primal Scream

[fatbastard]

Why did I think The Fratellis were Italian?

[TomAz]

The Waterboys?

[amyzzz]

Yay, multiple choice!

[york707]

Mogwai would have gotten my vote if they were listed, although it appears as though there will be another poll, presumably with bands starting with letters at the end of the alphabet.

[amyzzz]

Mogwai would have gotten my vote if they were listed, although it appears as though there will be another poll, presumably with bands starting with letters at the end of the alphabet.

That's what I was thinking.

[mountmccabe]

I am allowing myself to vote in this poll because it's gonna be closed in a week and there'll be no more bumping.

[mountmccabe]

Also because Scottish bands like whoah

[MarkO]

Del Amitri's sideburns need a choice all of their own.

[John Peel is My Co-pilot]

Just for Amy...




TRASHCAN SINATRAS!!!!!!!

[SojuGorae]

Mogwai

[Dode BCK]

Top ten for me would be
1.The Delgados
2.Big Country
3.JAMC
4.Teenage Fanclub
5.Idlewild
6.Arab Strap
7.Mogwai
8.Sons+Daughters
9.Geneva
10.Beta Band
and loads of others.
A few others us scots could claim,Placebo-Brian Molko born in Dundee(so i heard)AC/DC-The young bros born in scotland(supposedly),Pulp-keyboard player from Shetland

[John Peel is My Co-pilot]

If that's the rationale, fuck yeah, we're having Talking Heads then!!!

[John Peel is My Co-pilot]

.....and Eurythmics, Snow Patrol, Garbage, Men At Work, Jethro Tull, Stealers Wheel, The (Small) Faces, Wings, The Shamen, Alan Parsons Project, The KLF, MxPx and Thin Lizzy!!



...and shitloads more that I can't be bothered to try and think of right now!

[sonofhal]

Wow - some people even voted for Del Amitri. Scary

[DeltaSigChi4]

U2.

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[TomAz]

You're a dick, and an idiot.

[Courtney]

Ha, ha.

[charlie1]

.....and Eurythmics, Snow Patrol, Garbage, Men At Work, Jethro Tull, Stealers Wheel, The (Small) Faces, Wings, The Shamen, Alan Parsons Project, The KLF, MxPx and Thin Lizzy!!
!

Oh, dear.... you'll have to brush up on your geography darlin, Thin Lizzy are NOT SCOTTISH, Phil Lynott was a Paddy born and bred in Dublin. Plus, Snow Patrol have slightly hybrid heritage (more paddies),

as for the idiot who thinks that U2 are Scottish..... I weep for mankind.

[TomAz]

Men At Work: Australian.

I think someone was playing a wee joke.

[John Peel is My Co-pilot]

Oh, dear.... you'll have to brush up on your geography darlin, Thin Lizzy are NOT SCOTTISH, Phil Lynott was a Paddy born and bred in Dublin. Plus, Snow Patrol have slightly hybrid heritage (more paddies),

as for the idiot who thinks that U2 are Scottish..... I weep for mankind.

You'll have to brush up on your reading, darling.


Someone posted that we can claim Placebo, AC/DC etc. because of their Scottish members.
By that rationale, Talking Heads (Byrne born in Dumbarton), The KLF (Bill Drummond) and The Faces (Rod Stewart) all count by having Scots members.

Thin Lizzy had Scotsman Brian Robertson, Snow Patrol has Tom Simpson and Colin Hay, lead singer from Men At Work was born in Ayrshire.



I knows my stuff, ya know...

[charlie1]

sorry, cheesed off in work, can confirm that sense of humour was surgically removed this morning.

have to say thought that i always had a soft spot for Roddy Frame, god knows why.... showing my age.....