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'After the Fog... TOUR!' w/ Becci Wallace · You Call That Radio?

• 0:01
  Speaker A: As you call the radio. And it's a. An exciting day. We've got a big announcement to make. Buzzing for it. I think we're going to start with a little song first, just to kind of warm us up. But I have. Becky Wallace is backstage, just about to join us. But let's just listen to a song from Becky what was called Take it to the Radio. And that's what we're doing tonight. What?
• 0:27
  Speaker B: Taking it to the radio. Talk is cheap it could cost me Keep it in someone stop me Sink or swim in the offbeat on the
• 0:49
  Speaker C: air
• 0:53
  Speaker B: in my head confusion Bite my tongue, don't use it Keep it down cause you've said enough for the world say something Let it be pure or say nothing but be sure Take it to the radio Let the people know how you feel. Talk is cheap Coming at me no foundation Something concrete Shifting shapes Give me nothing to believe Breathing to say something Let it be pure or say nothing but be sure Take it to the radio Let the people know I feel and save me from your words False wisdom, filtered not wrong. Catalyst.
• 2:33
  Speaker A: We are live on the radio and welcome to the show Becky Wallace.
• 2:40
  Speaker C: Hi. How are you doing?
• 2:42
  Speaker A: I'm good, I'm good. I. I don't know how you've got time for everything. I don't know how you like.
• 2:47
  Speaker C: I literally used my 7 year old daughter's makeup because I was like, I don't know where mine says. I think it's in a car. Fine. That's how I've got time. It's a diy. It's DIY into. You know all about that, Mark.
• 3:00
  Speaker A: I do know about diy. It's a pain in the ass.
• 3:03
  Speaker C: It's hardcore. It is hardcore. It's nice to see you looking fresh.
• 3:08
  Speaker A: Well, I feel, I feel fresh.
• 3:10
  Speaker C: Good.
• 3:10
  Speaker A: I'm gonna, I'm gonna. I've moved her retirement home away from traffic and people.
• 3:18
  Speaker C: Good.
• 3:18
  Speaker A: I think it was the people that was the problem. I think it was the people that were stressing it. So I'm feeling good and I'm excited as well because we've got, we'll get big announcements, big announcements here tonight.
• 3:30
  Speaker C: Exclusives.
• 3:31
  Speaker A: Exclusives. So do you want to. Do you want to tell people what, what, what, what we're gathered here together for?
• 3:39
  Speaker C: We are gathered here today, dear people, to announce. I don't like. Can I just say something first? See announcements. I'm not in it. Right. See announcing.
• 3:49
  Speaker A: Well, we'll just, we'll just have a better quiet time then. We'll just have a bit of quiet.
• 3:52
  Speaker C: What we'll do. This is not. I want to do this, but what we'll do is we'll just say it. So I have, for some ungodly reason, booked a tour and I've got together an amazing band and we're going to go on tour. So last year, stage and I released after the Fog Air, which was my third studio album, and we did some great shows last year and got it off and running. And I had this vision. It's been a long time since before Lockdown, that I've had a band because life and paying people and just like things, do you know what I mean? It's tough to get people together and then to, like, pay them fairly and, like, I'm all about that, so should be very lucky to. To get the means through the people. We create Scotland to put a tour on. So we're doing it, but we're doing a rural tour for the most part, and then a relaunch of the album in Glasgow, which I have just got support for too. And the reason I'm doing it, Mark, is because I did a listening party last year in Govin when my album came out and everyone kept telling me that it was kind of like the chat in between, it was dead goods. And I'm actually not that great at chat when I'm put on the spot. But it turns out when I'm talking about songs and like, I'm in that world, it's quite good. So I was like, why. Why don't we put something together that's a. That's got all the music in it, but has this kind of, like, sense of theme in chat and, like, can be an actual show rather than just me standing on stage freaking out before every song and saying the first thing that comes to my head. So I've kind of created this world with it. So we're going on tour in collaboration with. You call that radio as well, who've supported the tour. And we're going to be hitting the desi heights of Ullool on the 24th of April. That's our first day. Followed by the wonderful Lowlands of Stravan and then even further low to New Galloway. Then we're going to go to Rossi I Hill. It's nice there. And then lastly, we're gonna do a relaunch of the album with a full band and a big summer show in Glasgow on the 21st of June. So I'm buzzing and I've been holding it back to announce it. There you go.
• 6:16
  Speaker A: Yeah, it's well done, well done.
• 6:18
  Speaker C: Thank you.
• 6:21
  Speaker A: Announcement made as announcement has been made and yeah, it's. So basically I, I was, I got involved with the booking side that and it's been a really brilliant educational experience talking to all the rural promoters.
• 6:38
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 6:39
  Speaker A: And it's offseason so they're all kind of on. Nobody really works in the islands in the winter that much. Well, I'm sure some people do, but I think events wise it's a. It's maybe with part time people or people that remember there's a committee, it can be quite slow. But I met, I met so many lovely, interesting people. I think there's a bit. There's about 10 more venues that wanted
• 7:02
  Speaker C: you to play and we might do it. We'll see how this goes. If this is the tour that finally breaks us through the big town, you know how it can be that way in New Galloway, then if this is the one, then we'll keep going. I'm a big fan of seeing the country, man, especially the rural areas, like how I've been about in Scotland. I love driving, I love cutting about, so I'm looking forward to seeing it all and if I can see more, I will as well. We'll see.
• 7:28
  Speaker A: See, that's it. I've never really thought we've played a few rural places before, but it's always been somebody's contact. He does.
• 7:35
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 7:36
  Speaker A: So. But it's, it's you. Everyone always forgets about it. They always just book the cities and
• 7:43
  Speaker C: I understand that as well. But like. So part of my whole thing was bringing these conversations like out into the. The rest of the world away from the city. Because the rest of the world will be in Scotland away from the city. Because like, it's just. I love Glasgow and I'm lucky, you know, be able to play here a lot, but it's just. I want to see if it lands with other people that don't know me, do you know what I mean? And what it feels like to be in a new space and if they are into the music or understand what I'm saying, or are just like, what is this? But I feel like both of my last two albums, but this one specifically are all like based quite connective experiences so that it's about isolation, about lockdown, about coming out of that. But the fallouts about the. Do you know what I mean? All that stuff. So I think there's like a lot of stuff to talk about as well that maybe we haven't done yet in rural locations. And right now the only Thing that I want to communicate with is art because everything else is burning. So that's it, man.
• 8:44
  Speaker A: It's taken a while post lockdown in it because I think you were planning a tour when you were on the show in 2020.
• 8:52
  Speaker C: I. I was actually.
• 8:54
  Speaker A: I mean that was only 2020 was only last year, wasn't it?
• 8:58
  Speaker C: It feels like it was last year, yeah. This is actually 2019, but it turns out it's 2026. Go figure. No, I mean like, thank God for filters. Never thought I'd say that. But I. Man, it's like it's just been. Well, the hang is right. The thing is this. I teach this stuff, right? So one of the things I teach my students is that you should be paid fairly for your work. So like, it's really important to me that that is the way it is. And so for fragmentality, I had a couple of big gigs. I did it on like Hit and Hope. Like we'll sell out these venues and we'll pay the band and all that stuff. You know when it's like no gig economy is worse, you can be sure who's going to turn up, what's going to happen. So I didn't want it to be precarious for the band. It's. I don't mind doing a gigging, you know, like it just being like what if. But I didn't want it to be precarious for the band so I had to wait and like make sure I could do it right. And you know, when you're an artist with limited funding, that's not always possible unless your dad and the Darren can book a DIY tour. Boom. And it's full in like 10 seconds. But that's a very special gift.
• 10:08
  Speaker A: So what the. So the. Your band. So let's talk about Chris. Let's talk about funding for a bit because let's. As somebody that's never. I've never had funding, but it feels like funding might be the only answer right now to do things well, I
• 10:24
  Speaker C: mean, I think you have to go into funding in good faith. Like, here's the thing. Before I got funding, I completely hated it. And I thought that because I was a wee busker doing the rounds and, you know, quite, I guess, working class in a way. Like in terms of the way I spoke and the way I was and the people hung about me and the music I made is weird and it's not industry and you know, so like before that I did funding, I was like, I'll never get this because I'm not the kind of person that gets it. And I'm not supposed to go for it, right, like, but my way. And it was through Song Seeds, which obviously, I guess, like, what I realized about the funding model is you get what you put in. So, like in lockdown in that time, which was last year, I did like six to eight months of Sunday songwriting, which some of you guys are watching this, I might watch it later, were part of which I done for free because I loved it, right? And so I put the work in and done like weekly songwriting workshops, weekly feedback weekly, like, you know, made that made a we world a wee community. And then that was my way into funding because I was like, I've now got a blueprint that works. I can show you it works. Like the songs for Sunday songwriting. We're going on a Body Heart show. And Janice for Scyth Hope she's good wherever she is. Do you know what I mean? That was happening just through the process of the songs being made. And I was putting them on a playlist on Band Camp, right? So I was like, right, soon people are into this. It wasn't my songs that were getting played now and again, it was mine. But everybody was getting a shot, you see, like my merrow getting our first one or whatever. So I. So I was like, right, there's something in this. Here's a blueprint for something that could work. So between myself and my partner at the time, Rosy Bands is who I was working with a lot. We put together this concept for Song Seeds and that's grown arms and legs. But also because it was such a strong blueprint for it, the, you know, you couldn't deny it was fundable, you know, and we also knew what it took to run it. So, you know, we asked for what we knew it would take to run it. And I think that's one of the things too. People always go in there a wee bit shy and they're a bit like, I won't get this, so I won't ask for much. And maybe they put themselves down or they don't value their own work. But if you say like, this is how much it costs to facilitate a project. You will get the funding and if you take the feedback, if you don't get it and try again, you will get it. But I. So I'm not a pure, like, you know, cheerleader for it, but at the same time, I've been fortunate. But my route end was through Song Seeds and then this tour was my next attempt, and I didn't get it on the first round. I had to go again for that.
• 13:02
  Speaker A: So what do you think? What do you think was the difference between your failed application and your successful one?
• 13:09
  Speaker C: They gave me feedback. So it was really perniciously, it really got. It got a really good rating. Like there was no problems with it. But they basically said, you've said you want to use visuals here for some of this because on the tour I've got a wee projector and we're using some visuals of what's been artist a wee bit a working woman. And so they were kind of like, can you explain in a more deeper way why visuals are important for the impact of music? And so I was like, right, well here's why. And went in if you're university mode and was like, studies show that, you know, meaning is more articulated when you map music to visuals. And that was enough and I got the funding. So it was just a case of like and being clearer on exactly where the. Where the tour was going to hat and the demographics and stuff. So you have to get dead specific. But if you can do that, you can get it. So I do think there's like a black cloud over it a wee bit and I understand why because it is a wee bit hostile, especially the form filling out process. That's like how they cut the weeds away because it's so hard to fill that format. But if you just do it and you follow the rules and you've got a good project and your project's not just about self indulgent self promotion, you'll get it sometimes. You can do that too, I guess.
• 14:25
  Speaker A: I filled out a form once and I didn't get it. Not Creative Scotland. Just a form.
• 14:30
  Speaker C: Just any form.
• 14:31
  Speaker A: Any form. I read Google form straight away, the look. What's your name?
• 14:36
  Speaker C: Who are you?
• 14:39
  Speaker A: Boring.
• 14:41
  Speaker C: I noticed you flashed away. You hang up on the screen there.
• 14:43
  Speaker A: Yeah, I was, I was, I was, I was setting you up for an advert.
• 14:47
  Speaker C: Well, okay. Sorry, I'm so bloody talkative. I. Song seeds. So song seeds has grown and this. It's really. It's a wee bit like a culture, right. I'm gonna be honest. It's got cult properties, right. When a group of people, we let new people. I know it's not that bad. You can come in and join our cult. We go away in the forest or the woods three times a year or whatever on a farmer field and we write for five days. We do a show where all the songs that we write in the local community and these people, this collective of People have grown over time. This is a celebration of some of that music from the last two years with some of the artists that are part of that. And it's actually happening a week today in stereo. So it's a real beautiful concept which is that we will all be on stage, all those people for the whole concert opening up. The concert is Mellow Party, the Legends, Colin John and all that and Gordy of course. But then when that concert starts, we'll be on stage, we'll be all over each other's music so you'll get a big band experience for each song. I mean some of these musicians are world class man. So it's a real brilliant opportunity to hear world class performances in stereo. And in a way you'll know hear them again. So these are all songs we've wrote throughout that time and now we're just working together to make stuff happen and there's people in here that are just coming, like Fiona for instance. She's just coming to play fiddle for people because she loves Song Seeds and she wants to do it, you know, and, and things like that. So there's just a great, a great group of legends that are part of it and it's a kind of once you pop you can't stop thing. And I would definitely say if you're an artist, come, come to the gig and see what we're all about. Because songsies don't advertise themselves as part of the music industry. We're not trying to be cool. Like it's not about being cool. It's not about being like our name being everywhere or you know, getting the big plays. It's about making music, writing music, being creative and there being a space where that is sacred and like is allowed so that we're not always just in competition with each other. So it's a real cult slash community that I've built there.
• 17:11
  Speaker A: And that's the Thursday.
• 17:13
  Speaker C: So on Thursday 5th March, a week today in stereo. And the tickets are online in schedule just now. And as I say, we've also got the amazing Melo party. John the Colonel has been part of Song Seeds on and off for the last few years and I so excited to have them there as well, man.
• 17:32
  Speaker A: Yeah, it's been great, great songs. I've been born in the song Seeds and I've still not made one. But I nearly actually nearly made one by mistake because I was in New Galloway when you were running about that neck of the woods. Yeah, it was a big, it was thunderstorms and Stuff I was in a caravan with no electricity in the middle of neighbor.
• 17:55
  Speaker C: We drove to the Galloway Arms Hotel in a thunderstorm to play the gig. And so because we just like we write all these songs, then in the last day we go and we play the gig. And usually in a community center, a bloody farm or something, you know, like.
• 18:10
  Speaker A: But yeah, just to clarify, for people using honor retreat, so you've got like accommodation places to five nights.
• 18:18
  Speaker C: So the whole point of it, everyone's helped me mourn about it, going on about it. But some night retreats are extortionate, right? They, they price out artists like us, working class artists are priced out of them. Unless you've got 1700 pound and you can just go on a random retreat and listen to someone talk about their careers and why they should be leading the retreat. I'm not into that. Right. My idea is that songwriting retreats should. The experience is so good that all artists should be able to experience them. So song seeds. It's not 200 pound to come to this gig, but for the five nights it's 200 pound for song seeds. And that includes a master class, two DIY artist workshops, all your food and then a chef, your residence obviously in a big beautiful house in the middle of nowhere and then the opportunity to perform. But the hang it does most is it gives people an opportunity to network. It gives people an opportunity to get to know each other and find new connections. And there's been a lot of that. Song seeds. Excuse me. So that's something that, you know, it's that dirty word again, networking. But it song says it's like you're building a community. So it's a safe network. People that know you, they know your music and can perform with you confidently and know your style. There's no genres. We've got everything from punks to hip hop artists to folk singers to experimental artists to crazy like just random wild music. I. It's just a love of music, man. That's what it's all about. But doing that in a very retreat focused way where even though it's fun, it's also a wee tiny bit strict. So you've got those, like you have to write a song today, go and come back with a song, you know, rather than just like, oh whatever, we'll see what happens. Three years later you've got two verses,
• 20:09
  Speaker A: you know, and you've got. Because it's competitive. So you've got.
• 20:13
  Speaker C: Well, it is, yeah, but it's, it's. It's collegiate as they would Say so it's like it is competitive, but it's only competitive because the musicians are so good that it gives you this, like, buster, like excitement to make something brilliant, you know, so it's not competitive. Like I've never seen a competition happen, put it that way.
• 20:38
  Speaker A: I've got the link. I put the link tree in the comments. So we've got if you're glad, Cafe Cat Strand, New Galloway, Butte, Straving and all your social medias. Maybe you may add your song seeds into that link tree as well.
• 20:57
  Speaker C: Yeah. Straight after this chat, I've asked the people.
• 21:01
  Speaker A: I've asked a poll. So. Because you very kindly added my. My logo for. For booking. But I've asked the people in a poll, if you're. If you're tuned in on YouTube just now, then you can vote whether I just keep. You call that radio for the bookings. Because I'm. I loved it and I obviously, I'm trying to get more stuff that's about. I can do remotely without having you
• 21:25
  Speaker C: enjoy booking things remotely. Yeah.
• 21:27
  Speaker A: Because I'm like, okay, I don't need to travel. I don't need to travel. And I gotta be. I gotta rebuzzer it as well. And it's great to sort of keep involved. So I'm available for hire if anyone wants to book their tour. But I was thinking about rebranding it. Should it be you call that radio or. He called that bookings or Danny to rebrand. I was going to rebrand, but sure. He tells me I'm wrong. Furied as one of the. The acts that we'll be performing with you on this tour.
• 21:54
  Speaker C: That's right.
• 21:55
  Speaker A: The King of Beaut. The King of Butte is going to
• 21:58
  Speaker C: be really is the King of Beauty.
• 22:01
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 22:01
  Speaker C: We did the song seed show there and who turned up and he played a couple of absolute Belters as well. Had everyone in the palm of their hand. His hands.
• 22:12
  Speaker A: You showed me an NME a review he got in the 80s and it was like a staggeringly. A staggeringly tall Scottish man or something like it maybe. Correct me if he's watching.
• 22:25
  Speaker C: That's the kind of review when they just start describing you as part of the review. You know, you've either won them or lost them at that point. Like, I don't know.
• 22:36
  Speaker A: Well, Hugh actually went to the guy's house. He was in London and he actually. The guy said that he was going to the. To review his gig, but the Enemy writers would never show up. So what you did was got his. The guy's address and Picked them up and. Oh, we're just passing on the way, so we thought we'd give you a lift. So they basically kidnapped the enemy writer, who couldn't sort of back out at that point. And he got quite a good review. Quite a good review. Jigsaw Tiger says tour sounds brilliant.
• 23:01
  Speaker C: Yes, Yes. A legend.
• 23:04
  Speaker A: Mary's in the house. Epimu says, sorry, I'm just here, but it's nice to see Beck and yourself. Yes, thank you, everyone, for tuning in. We're going to play a wee tune just now for people that may be not aware of your music. I've got the one. I picked one. My music video, which I don't know if you. I think you'll be focusing on the album, but the ones I've got is the Things they say About Love.
• 23:24
  Speaker C: Well, that's a belter. Right. I was thinking about that song the other day.
• 23:28
  Speaker A: Yeah. So how are you approaching the. The tour with the set list? Is it going to be all the. The new album, or are you going
• 23:36
  Speaker C: to throw the new album in some. And we'll throw some oldies in there too. I want to do the new album as a kind of story because it. Like there's a story behind it, but I'll tell you about a minute. But I. So we'll do the new album as the full set because I've got this amazing band who I should totally shout out as well, because they're brilliant that I've kind of caught, not cobbled together. We did a show supporting Darren in November. That was our first show and it was just. I mean, they're just great, you know, it felt just dead easy and they picked up the song so well. And I'll start with There's A Legend. I mean, I'm all about harmonies. So I've got Rebecca o', Rourke, who's a fantastic singer, who was a master's student of nine years ago. And that's a good thing as well about working with all these amazing young artists. So she's doing a lot of the bulk of the harmonies, which are really important part of what I do. Right. So she's brilliant. And then I've got beautiful Johnny Slater on the keys, who is like Glasgow's session musician at this point, but I've been working with. Because I met him through songseeds and through that whole group and he's just a solid, like, player, but also just a solid collaborator. He's a kind of rock in the group. He knows all the songs. If Johnny's there, you know, the Gig's going to be beautiful. And then I've got my dear friend and absolutely fantastic drummer, Claire Duffin, who used to play first Aspire and is now doing a thing called the Duffins with her husband Paul. But she's just a brilliant drummer, she loves the tunes and it's nice to have her with me because we just usually are stuck in an office together, so to get out and about, it's fantastic. And lastly, I get wonderful Adam Roach, who's on the. The bass. He's an excellent bassist, so I just. Just a solid band. Adam's also one of the master students, so as I say, it's good to be able to kind of farm the best musicians. So I. That's. That's the vibes. We're going to do the whole show, doing a bit of visuals, doing a bit of lighting, doing a bit of. I wouldn't call it comedy because I'm not that funny, but my life is ridiculous. So a bit of kind of like that stuff as well.
• 25:57
  Speaker A: It's just an audience with Becky Wallace, I would say.
• 26:00
  Speaker C: So.
• 26:01
  Speaker A: Do you know the.
• 26:03
  Speaker C: The.
• 26:03
  Speaker A: The Mill and Shaven looks amazing for that kind of vibe.
• 26:07
  Speaker C: Looks beautiful.
• 26:08
  Speaker A: And so. And this as does Cat Strand as well.
• 26:13
  Speaker C: And maybe in the other ones, if it's more appropriate to just play banger after banger, that's what we'll do. Obviously we'll feel the crowd out, but I'm really looking forward to ending it back in Glasgow in the Glad Cafe as well, which is my favorite venue. It just is. It's just a great venue. The sound's always great. It's a lovely feeling in the space. I love that venue. I launched my first album there and so I'm buzzing to go back there and. And finish this tour there and do the whole show properly there as well.
• 26:44
  Speaker A: And as for the bowling club, it's not obviously a theater like the other places, but it's behind the stage is the sea.
• 26:52
  Speaker C: It's got sea views.
• 26:53
  Speaker A: It's got sea views.
• 26:54
  Speaker C: I want for that. And we're only asking 10 pound.
• 26:58
  Speaker A: And also it's a daytime one, that one. So it's designed so that if people want to get the ferry to Bute, they can go watch the show, watch Becky Wallace and her band, watch you reading the Velvet underpants and then get the ferry back. In fact, I'll give you another exclusive. It's Super Sunday. She call out Radio Super Sunday because we've not. It's not been announced yet, but Jinx Lenon will be playing MC that night.
• 27:20
  Speaker C: So fantastic.
• 27:21
  Speaker A: Get. Get to Butte, have the daytime gig and then go back to Glasgow and finish with. With Jinx Lenin, who he kindly took us on tour at Ireland last year. So we've been sorting them Scottish stories in Edinburgh and one more place to be confirmed that weekend as well. So it's all happening that weekend.
• 27:39
  Speaker C: Colonel Mustard, are we Many jolly in the spring. Man, that is great.
• 27:44
  Speaker A: John. Colonel Mustard is in the house.
• 27:46
  Speaker C: Who.
• 27:48
  Speaker A: His ears must have been burning there. So how does it. How does the band. We just talked about all the band. Obviously I was lucky enough to see everybody in Action Darren show in December.
• 28:00
  Speaker C: Yep.
• 28:02
  Speaker A: So I would say it's got a very kind of classic rock pop kind of. Yeah, it sounds like the. It sounds like you're playing almost like, I don't know, cover versions of the Hats, if that makes sense.
• 28:16
  Speaker C: And in some ways I. It's a total different vibe. Obviously. We made me instead made this with mostly kind of hip hop focused beats and production. So getting it out and guess feeling it out in this way is different. I'd say it's more eclectic in terms of like the possible reach of the audience, like. But I mean we played this kind of select ones at that gig. The whole album kind of flows. I had this idea, man, it's so stupid really. But I've clung at it for dear life because it was my idea that I would do this like after lockdown as a smug. Oh, sorry. A smug person. So I was feeling a bit smug. And so I wanted to do a pop album. I was just like. Like my first album was like a kind of folksy thing. Second was like dark trip hop stuff. I was like, I just wanted a pop album. Easy peasy, flat pack pop. Me talking about other people rather than me talking about myself. That's the vibe. But it didn't turn out that way. So the album is a kind of story of like realizing that I'm talking nonsense and that like I'm giving out advice that I cannot take. And that's what we often realize when we're sitting on our wee pedestals feeling smug. So the album has these kind of really poppy tones in it, but it kind of switches through it and you start to get that older, more usual sounding style. And I'm looking forward to realizing that with the band as well. Like especially the kind of darker moments in it just to kind of. And then that makes the kind of more poppy moments even more exciting. And when we say pop, we're talking shady and like rock and roll. We're not talking like K Pop Demon Hunters. It's a very specific sound, but it's very old school. Kind of more bakaraki than it is like, you know, like harping back to that kind of sound.
• 30:05
  Speaker A: What did you say? K Pop Demons.
• 30:08
  Speaker C: Please tell me you've heard of them.
• 30:11
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 30:12
  Speaker C: Wow. Wow. Oh, to be a hermit. I love it.
• 30:16
  Speaker A: I've been missing. It is.
• 30:18
  Speaker C: I don't know if you're missing out, but it's a. Let's just call it a cultural moment. If you're under the age of 10. It's. It's like the guys who put. It's the art. Same artist who did the art for Spider man across the spider verse. So like that really cool manga style. But it's K Pop and it's about three. It's basically Buffy the Vampire Slayer. But the weapon is singing rather than kicking ass. Right.
• 30:46
  Speaker A: I'm even more confused now. Let's play a song. It's not. It's not. It's not helping me. This description's not helping me.
• 30:52
  Speaker C: Someone else can fill you in, I'm sure.
• 30:54
  Speaker A: Get K Pop Demon Hunters and. Wait, wait a minute. The band's called K Pop Demon Hunters? I thought it was a band that played K pop that was called Demon Hunters Advance.
• 31:03
  Speaker C: John. John. The band is called Hunt Tricks. Okay? I have a seven year old daughter, so I know this. The band's called Hunt Tricks but they're hunters. That's their job. They're. They're expelling the demons from the world through singing.
• 31:17
  Speaker A: So they're not called K Pop Demon Hunters. No one's called K Pop Demon Hunters then?
• 31:23
  Speaker C: No, they sing K Pop and they hunt demons. It's a great title. I mean, it does what it says in the tin.
• 31:30
  Speaker A: The song is called Golden Says Joe.
• 31:34
  Speaker C: It's called. We're not playing it Joe. Okay, but we can talk. Another thing, I was going to do a lecture, right, about why K Pop Demon Hunter sells music and you don't. It's going to call the lecture and just like break down the formulaic genius of these songs. I mean, it's another world of production and vocal like vocal warping and auto tune and all that's mental. It's hyper pop. Right? It's not my vibe, but I can respect that because it's a big deal, man.
• 32:06
  Speaker A: Never heard that.
• 32:08
  Speaker C: I love it. I wish.
• 32:11
  Speaker A: My bubble's quite strong. See, this is why I used to hate famous pop artists when I was young. Because you couldn't get away with it. It was. It was everywhere. We didn't really have. It was just sort of pre. Pre iPods, Pre MP3 players. You were kind of stuck with whatever's playing in the supermarket. You didn't have many channels. There wasn't. There wasn't on there. It wasn't real. Went on there. You didn't really have YouTube, so you were kind of forced to watch Top of the Pops or, I don't know, MTV. MTV 2.
• 32:42
  Speaker C: Yeah, you were forced. And there, I can't remember the name for it, but there is a whole boring conversation around what that is and what that was. The cultural apparatus, it's called. So it's like what they advertise to you and then everyone starts buying it because they're told it's popular. And then suddenly we live in a world where everyone listens to the same songs. In the 90s it was your. Your Marty Pelo and your Celine Dion and all that stuff. But it changes over time, man.
• 33:10
  Speaker A: And now Celine Dion catching strays there. Celine Dion was cat. Is that Celine Dion catching strays?
• 33:16
  Speaker C: I loved Selen Dion when I was a kid. Do you know what I said? And over dubbed a tape of me singing My Heart Will Go on, right? Over dubbed it, like double checked it. I was about 7 or 8 and I sent it to the Big Breakfast, Johnny and denise on Channel 4, right? And they phoned my mum and they asked me if I'd come in and sing on the Big Breakfast and Channel four. They said they'd pay for me to go down to London. And this, the segment they were going to get me on this thing on was called Pussy Mothers. And Mama was like, no, you're not in it. Which was a wise move. But at the time I was heartbroken.
• 33:53
  Speaker B: But.
• 33:53
  Speaker C: But it was your heart.
• 33:54
  Speaker A: Your heart did go on.
• 33:56
  Speaker C: My heart's still going on. Somehow.
• 34:00
  Speaker A: Jigsaw Tiger says the story of the woman, ej, who wrote the music for the film is really interesting.
• 34:06
  Speaker C: It is.
• 34:07
  Speaker A: Hold on, is this a film or. I thought it was a band.
• 34:10
  Speaker C: It's a film and the band are part of the film. And they're also a band now because the music was so successful that now it's on the top of every chart ever, forever and ever. Amen. As it's mental, man.
• 34:22
  Speaker A: Well, I've not had demon hunters. I've heard cowboy hunters. No demon hunters. Cowboy hunters. I like them.
• 34:28
  Speaker C: Zombie hunters. There's plenty of hunters out there.
• 34:32
  Speaker A: I do love Celine, says Stuart. Okay, there's a Celine Dion fan club in the house. I'm not going to say anything else you bought, Mark.
• 34:40
  Speaker C: Never mind.
• 34:43
  Speaker A: Actually, you're going to wait. This answer. You got to wait.
• 34:46
  Speaker C: Let me hear that.
• 34:47
  Speaker A: The honest truth.
• 34:48
  Speaker C: Honest. Be honest. I'm going to be honest. I don't care.
• 34:51
  Speaker A: Slam Jam by the WWF Superstars Yes. Not the cool answer. Not the cool answer.
• 35:00
  Speaker C: Killer Spectacular Mines was Love Is all around by Wet Wet Wear well, I think everybody.
• 35:08
  Speaker A: I think it was. I think it was a legal requirement to buy that. It was number one in the charts for about three years.
• 35:15
  Speaker C: Headphones on in the top of my bunk and. And just go to sleep listening. It became this.
• 35:22
  Speaker A: How do. Would you make a wet, wet, wet plane without Marty Pillow? Is that.
• 35:28
  Speaker C: It's out of order. Scotland's Rose Marty Pedo. No way.
• 35:35
  Speaker A: When does a band stop being. Because I seen a. I seen a thing earlier on a bit. Who was it? Dead Kennedy's maybe and somebody else. There's a couple of things I've seen today and it was people, you know, bands are touring there, especially the older bands. People die. People are not. Don't want to tour.
• 35:54
  Speaker C: Yeah, but the.
• 35:54
  Speaker A: The band goes on.
• 35:57
  Speaker C: The same band?
• 35:58
  Speaker A: Yeah. When does it stop in the same band?
• 36:00
  Speaker C: I got something about this, like, if you put something together and then over time you fix it, but every piece changes.
• 36:07
  Speaker A: That's Only Frozen Horses. Only Fools and Horses either. He got an MBE from the Queen for saving the council money for having the same mop for 15 years, which had 22 heads and. I don't know. What do you call it? Sticks. 17 sticks.
• 36:26
  Speaker C: Is it the same mop? That's the thing. What a beautiful piece of philosophy to throw in there via Tailboy. I love that. I love that. I don't know. I think, like, if a lead singer changes, fair enough. Like, I love Lincoln Park's new singer and so if that happens, fine. But I think once.
• 36:45
  Speaker A: Is she all right?
• 36:46
  Speaker C: Is she.
• 36:46
  Speaker A: I thought she was cancelled for being a Scientologist or something.
• 36:50
  Speaker C: Oh, I don't know anything about that. All I know is that she sings the theme for one of the. For Raw. No First Markdown and it's dead good. And that's all I care about. I don't know, man. I think it's like the Sugar Babes into it. They've had like so many members, haven't they? So if you know about that stuff. Another great band. I don't know, man. I think when the songs become shy, you can disown the band. If the songs suffer, the band's gone.
• 37:19
  Speaker A: Well, some of my band members were thinking about last gig in 28th March. I'm done. I'm done.
• 37:27
  Speaker C: They're going to keep it going without.
• 37:28
  Speaker A: Well, I don't know. They were. They. They were maybe joking. I don't know.
• 37:32
  Speaker C: We should have a poll about that and just end that. Right.
• 37:35
  Speaker A: Would that be all right? Yeah. Would be all right for the Gyro babies to continue?
• 37:39
  Speaker C: No. No.
• 37:41
  Speaker A: Because the thing is, I don't. I would be happy to do the booking. I just can't be bothered with the traveling. You said you like traveling. See, I like going. I like going to the new places. I love going to new places. But it's just a bit of traveling. I don't like it.
• 37:57
  Speaker C: I think. And I'm not judging end it. But there's maybe a toss up here which is if I'm doing something, I've got to get back for the wins. So often I'm. No. No drinking. Right. If I'm doing a show or whatever. And that really helps me enjoy it. Because what will happen is you'll end up spending all your money and then like staying longer than you should have. Not you, Pierce. I'm not pointing at you.
• 38:20
  Speaker A: You are literally pointing at me.
• 38:22
  Speaker C: You and staying longer than you should have and stuff. I need to go.
• 38:29
  Speaker A: This is literally reading the. My tarot cards. Do you go to gigs and drink too much and stay longer than you should? Maybe.
• 38:39
  Speaker C: I think that's pretty much everybody for. And me too, if I'm not playing. But when I'm playing, I always got a bit of time.
• 38:44
  Speaker A: The thing is, in my. When I was. When I was younger, I was. I love Turing. And it was the rest of the band that I had to. I couldn't convince to do all the things I wanted to do.
• 38:55
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 38:55
  Speaker A: And now I've actually got a really. All the band are great and they actually seem quite up for most things. But everybody's busy as well, so it's quite hard to.
• 39:04
  Speaker C: It's. It's a novel thing for me. It's escapism. If you're like. If you're a touring artist all the time, that's a way of life. It's like any job into it you would get bored. Whereas I'm more of a studio session singer. Etc. So if I get to go on tour, it's like a big deal for me. I'll probably hate it by the Glad Cafe. I'll be like, that's it. No more. Becky Wallace is the band. Becky Walls without me?
• 39:26
  Speaker A: I don't think so. I think that's a good. It looks like it's a well well placed tour. You've got. You've got breaks.
• 39:33
  Speaker C: Plenty of breaks. Yeah.
• 39:35
  Speaker A: So I think you'll be. I think you'll be looking forward to all the things.
• 39:38
  Speaker C: I definitely will be. And if anyone is out there and they are part of one of these little rural places here, feel free to check out the link tree and book one of those. Because it's always a bit scary when you do something rural. Will people come or won't they? Although I must say most of these places are totally on top of it. So I'm not worried. Aleppo is like this little secret. It's not a secret. Right. It exists. Right. But it's like this little hive of art. It's great. We went up a couple years ago for the book festival. Darren was speaking at it and I was like, we need to come back here. This is so, like just buzzing with art and music and it's really cool, man. It's a pureb center for the Highlands for. For music. So I'm looking forward to it. But it's mostly folk music, so I don't know what they'll think about me.
• 40:28
  Speaker A: Ullapool is the. That's what you get. That's where you get the ferry to go to the storm the way. Yes. So I've been there before.
• 40:38
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 40:39
  Speaker A: And it was. It was. I didn't like it, but it was. It was raining. It was raining
• 40:48
  Speaker C: higher up, basically.
• 40:50
  Speaker A: Oh, that's a long story. But I. I wasn't. I didn't have a great weekend and it was a long time ago and it was pushing the rain and I didn't know that other pool, all those things going on.
• 41:03
  Speaker C: Hangs happen there. Yeah. I mean, I think in general, actively seeking hangs is always smart. Was like that wee place we were playing, Kelly Place. It's got a wee bookshop in it and there's a wee art store and it's all golden. And the woman who basically runs Ullapool, right, her name's Joan and she's like 87 and she runs all the events and then she like. She's like a pure dynamo. So she's got AO on lockdown, man. Like she's just got all the gigs, running all the promo Alo Express. It's mental, man. She's great. Shout outs to Joan up in Alo.
• 41:39
  Speaker A: Joe wants to say Scotland loves Marty P. But is he really that good though? Not sure. Honestly. I don't know if everyone loves Marty Pill. I think he kind of divides opinion a Wee bit.
• 41:48
  Speaker C: I think he's like. He's kind of like a. Sorry, Mar. It's kind of like a joke. It's like our collective, we joke basically. Like on. I think he's a great singer. Last year at New Year, he totally rinsed the New Year show. Me Darren were in buckets, just laughing like, why is Marty Pillow back again? Like, he'd done a song and then he done another hang and then he was back. It was just like the Marty Pillow Show. So I think, like, he's definitely Scotland's rose that survived with him. So just let him be. Whether he's good or not is neither here nor there. He's been chosen.
• 42:27
  Speaker A: Well, you know that meme with the spiders point. Spider Man's pointing each other Mellow party and Marty Pelo will unite at Pit Lori. They're on the same bill.
• 42:36
  Speaker C: I can't actually believe. Please tell me, is that a Cliffy Biro scenario right there?
• 42:41
  Speaker A: A Cliffy Byro scenario indeed. And it's also. And also. God. They don't. God. The Duncan's got home advantage because he's the Fresh Prince of P lry. So it's. I might even go. The good thing about. I've not got any festivals this year, so I'm actually just. I may just go to places. I was buzzing. See that. A big city this year in this. In Queen Park. Spiritualized and Super Furry Animals.
• 43:06
  Speaker C: Nice.
• 43:06
  Speaker A: So I was going to. I was going to go to Lindis Fan, but I think I'm just going to go to that instead.
• 43:11
  Speaker C: If it's on your doorstep. Well, if it's close to your doorstep, you should go, like. Definitely.
• 43:16
  Speaker A: I've got my. I've got my summer back. I've got my summer back. So I can go. I can go if I want. And also I'd actually bought tickets and
• 43:28
  Speaker C: I'll go if I want to. That's you, man.
• 43:30
  Speaker A: Well, I bought tickets for the Super Furry Animals and the Beta Band in London and then I was like, I don't really want to go to London, so I'm going to. If anyone wants to buy tickets for the Super For Animals and the Beat a band in London, I'll hopefully see the Beta band somewhere else. I seen them a couple months ago, I'll see them again. But super for Animals and Spiritualized in Glasgow, I'm busting for that. Stacey's in the house. I lived and worked, I think, in Olapo. Shout outs to Stacey. There you go. Proof that it's got culture.
• 43:58
  Speaker C: It does. Got it's. Got culture. It's got a wee dose of culture up there.
• 44:02
  Speaker A: Epimu says it's a division. Marty Pillow is. It's a divide. He's different. I'm definitely on the divisive side.
• 44:08
  Speaker C: He ain't no thistle because he's a rose.
• 44:12
  Speaker A: Scotland rose. Iona says yes. I love the bookshop in Olapo. There was a good vibe there.
• 44:17
  Speaker C: Yeah, it's beautiful. Man kill people. There's another wee town like that probably is. No, it called Burnham, which is beside Dunkeld. And it's like. I feel like it's where people that are artists go to retire. Like it's got up your like a certain age kind of demographic, but it's all quirky. Like artists. They've got an amazing. They've got a Beatrix Potter Museum, which is cool, but they've also got a amazing like. What's it called? Like a theater kind of like showcase area where like I met Peggy Seagull there once just like putting about. She held Lily for a bit because Lily was trying to run into the water, you know. So either just get this pure random amazing community there too. The Burnham Art center, which is a really cool place. So either seems to be all these be like refuges like oasis for artists in Scotland where they just go and other pool's definitely one.
• 45:13
  Speaker A: So it might be with that here. I don't know. I don't see anybody ever. But.
• 45:18
  Speaker C: And you're in your undisclosed location and my undisclosed location.
• 45:22
  Speaker A: Yeah, there is. I've heard rumors of an art scene, but I've. You know, I've. No, I've not really went anywhere. I'm actually a wee bit. Everyone says I'll wait till the spring summer. I don't want tourists here.
• 45:38
  Speaker C: Become one of them already.
• 45:40
  Speaker A: I'll be a pitch for. I have my pitchfork ready. Get off my land. No tourists here. Most. Most me towns are all going on very succinct.
• 45:51
  Speaker C: That's true. That's true. Yeah.
• 45:53
  Speaker A: I've got a song. I've been trying to play a song for about 20 minutes.
• 45:57
  Speaker C: As bad as each other.
• 45:59
  Speaker A: I just want to play a song in case people aren't aware of your music before. So we started with song for the album but because unless you're listening to this as an audio podcast, we are on a video podcast live right now. So we're going to do a video and the first I think probably my favorite one that's got a video is the things they say about love. So do you want to give us a Re introduction to that. We'll play that and then we'll chat for another.
• 46:22
  Speaker C: Yeah, man. Like all my music, this song is about something I've experienced. So before I got married, I was dead scared about it. And so it's really a song about that. Like, what if. What happens if we hold hands and jump into this abyss as two people that probably would never have got married had we not met each other? So I. It's a song for me and Darren, but it's kind of all about the fear of, like, doing something that to take back would be momentous. And that fear still lives with me every day. There you go.
• 46:57
  Speaker A: Let's go, then. Let's hear it. Let me know if the sound's okay because I've been missing a bit.
• 47:13
  Speaker B: When we go sailing
• 47:19
  Speaker C: we won't come back again. Tell me it's true the things they say about love he takes her to D. Tell me it's true the things they say about love she patches up his bruises, Kisses, listens, pushes it's an
• 47:54
  Speaker B: inspired old game Making like the pictures
• 47:59
  Speaker C: in the window display Dusty cabinets Satin days at home Tell me we can the things they say about love he sharpens my edges Tell me we can the things they say about love we used to be so reckless Backing up regrets now we in the talk a
• 48:33
  Speaker B: town Making like the pictures in the
• 48:37
  Speaker C: windows we hate love forever into the
• 48:42
  Speaker B: unknown and when we go say then tell me you're not bored the things
• 48:54
  Speaker C: they say about she takes him for
• 48:59
  Speaker B: granted Tell me you're not bored with
• 49:05
  Speaker C: things they say about love he always makes excuses and she says that he's
• 49:13
  Speaker B: useless near the top of town Making like the pictures and no one know
• 49:20
  Speaker C: this way Love forever Satan Days at
• 49:25
  Speaker B: home
• 49:27
  Speaker C: alone again
• 49:34
  Speaker B: and when we go sa. We won't come back again when we when we go. Storm inside so while you and I go and when we go when we go smiling hand and hand and face the time and when you and I Won't tell me that we Won't tell me that we Won't tell me that we won't come back again Won't come
• 50:38
  Speaker C: back again again Won't come back again
• 50:43
  Speaker B: Won't come back again Won't come back
• 50:47
  Speaker C: again Won't come back again Won't come
• 50:51
  Speaker B: back again Won't come back again
• 50:59
  Speaker C: I'm so jealous of her hair.
• 51:04
  Speaker A: Where. Where was that. Where was that film? That looks nice.
• 51:07
  Speaker C: My favorite beach in the whole world. Which is fairly. Fairly beach for the most part. And then down by the Clyde. I love it. There. It's my favorite, favorite place, always quiet. And I just like the idea of our roller tenements and in the front of the sea, you know what I mean? It's just cool, man. But it's hilarious looking at it, because the ones with the black jacket were after lockdown. So it was Andrew McKenzie that filmed it. And we'd done the first half in December, 2,019, or maybe even January, and then lockdown hat. Then we couldn't do anything. And then the next time I've just got this pure mad purple mop hair because you weren't allowed to, like, do any in man or, like, get your hair done or whatever. So it's a pure contrast.
• 51:50
  Speaker A: Scottish album of the year is the Jackal Trades equivalent, where the song started to get filmed about six months before lockdown. And then I kind of forgot about it because things, you know, there was a. The world was in fire. I. But then I put on. I put on a lot of it and it's just. It's funny. And the hair as well, because, remember, there's just a. I know some people were getting illegal haircuts, but I didn't get any illegal haircuts.
• 52:16
  Speaker C: I gave my family PK Blinders haircuts. And Darren was so raging, like, it was so bad, but I was like, oh, that I'll dare, no bother. And it was like, awful, man.
• 52:27
  Speaker A: Well. Shouts to Debbie Love, who gave me a haircut.
• 52:30
  Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
• 52:31
  Speaker A: What a legend on stage at the Ice Box. Well, haircuts were still. I think it was a gray area.
• 52:37
  Speaker C: It was a spectacle.
• 52:41
  Speaker A: It was art. So you're allowed to have haircut for art.
• 52:43
  Speaker C: So.
• 52:44
  Speaker A: Because. But yeah, that she did. She did a number on My Friends. It's never really recovered. Got some feedback from the song. Stuart says, stunning tune. Joe says, great tune. We're banging views. Jigsaw Tiger says, love that tune. And Deborah says, beautiful song. I wonder what Deborah that. It's that Deborah that cut my hair. If I just. Bam.
• 53:05
  Speaker C: Just nick it.
• 53:10
  Speaker A: Sorry. That fact. No, I'm not sorry. It was you. It was. If it is you, Deborah Love, it was you.
• 53:14
  Speaker C: Cool. The fringe is cool. Like, see that we. Micro fringe is a very cool vibe.
• 53:18
  Speaker A: But this is. This is. This was a. This was a. A local barber who gave me a haircut and he was talking on the phone like it was. He was shouting at an iPad in Arabic and it was like, it. Which is fine. I don't. I don't care, you know, talk away. I. I don't want to I don't necessarily want to have small talk, so I was fine with that. But he was shouting like, while he was in my ear. So it was like. And I've.
• 53:47
  Speaker C: I've your haircut experience, man. Like, a haircut is supposed to be a relaxing 10 minutes. It's like two hours for lasses. But it's supposed to be a relaxing thing.
• 54:00
  Speaker A: No, absolutely no. It feels like. It feels like going on an airplane. It feels like. I would compare it to setting off in an airplane. There's no. It's not relaxing. Baba said. It's not normally as bad as that. It's just that I've get. I've still had tennis since my album lunch and I don't need people shouting in my ear. But he did an all right job. It's fine. I didn't complain. I want to complain. Very stylish for a rural barber.
• 54:30
  Speaker C: Indeed, a very rural haircut.
• 54:33
  Speaker A: Oh, it was Deborah. Oh, speak of the devil, it was Deborah. You duped me into that haircut. No. You told me you were a hairdresser and you've never mentioned. I've never heard the one other story. If you cut in anyone else's hair. I think I was. I was duped. I wasn't a jipper.
• 54:47
  Speaker C: And I'm sure that's quite fabulous.
• 54:49
  Speaker A: You know, I've getting some. I've been getting some complaints today because I announced that we are not. We're doing our last gig in the 20th of March and I spoke to that school and they said that if I want to have. Because people are wanting to bring their way ins and that under 18s over 14s.
• 55:04
  Speaker C: But I.
• 55:06
  Speaker A: It means that we've got to have a strict curfew and I'm. I'm still a bit scared from last year.
• 55:10
  Speaker C: That was trauma. That was real trauma, man. Why did those lights go on? What is going on? It was like being an unders gag again. But I mean, it's been so long.
• 55:19
  Speaker A: Darren thought it was part of the act. He thought it was good. It was good stage work or something.
• 55:25
  Speaker C: He's got that Andy Kaufman hanging.
• 55:29
  Speaker A: But no, for anyone that doesn't know where. About 10 songs into our 12 track album and then we're going to do an encore with the. The greatest hits, if you can call it that, and then about 10 songs and even if it'd been seven and it might have been better, but I get past a note saying, you need to stop playing now.
• 55:50
  Speaker C: Wow.
• 55:51
  Speaker A: And then it was. Because at half ten they had to check the wristbands. Because I think over 18s get given a certain wristband. And under 18s there was. So they could just leave the stage. We're just going to put the whites on, check the wristbands, and you could be back on in five minutes. I was like, right, it's far from ideal, but it's okay. And then the next thing, they threw everybody onto the street and made them queue up. Because then the bouncers thought it was a new club night we starting. But I'd hire.
• 56:16
  Speaker C: Oh, man. Honestly, I would have been so stressed. You pulled it off nicely. The whole time that was happening, I was just standing there. Nobody threw me out. And it did feel like a part of the show for about two minutes. And then it felt like, what is going on? And then there was just like people with wristbands, people hiding and stuff. I was like, okay, don't know.
• 56:35
  Speaker A: Well, we had to go in and then do two songs. And then the last songs, an acoustic song. And we totally lost the crib at that point because everybody's just going at the bar to buy a drink because they've been outside in the cold for half an hour.
• 56:47
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 56:48
  Speaker A: And they're all just talking about what was that all about? And then obviously. So we. We didn't get a. We didn't get our P drop moment for.
• 56:56
  Speaker C: Because that's what the last song was for. I. You'll need to do a relaunch.
• 57:02
  Speaker A: No. 1 and done 28th of March at that school. I'm off. I'm off.
• 57:08
  Speaker C: Maybe the band could do it without you.
• 57:09
  Speaker A: Maybe the band will do it. I don't know.
• 57:12
  Speaker C: We could have like rolling front people. They just do the show whenever.
• 57:16
  Speaker A: Explaining me well. That's what I'm saying. I enjoyed booking your turn. When you were talking about what you wanted to play the LS guy. I was like, for one gig. And then I was starting to feel like that's a lot for me. You know what? I don't need to do it. I don't need to go this guy show it. But it just seems for me. But I didn't. We avoided sky because I thought. I think that's too long for one unity. Find a weekend that you can all do and do two gigs. Because we had three venues.
• 57:42
  Speaker C: Festival season. I think we're going up to Belladrum and then. But I don't know for sure yet, but I think so. So we'll do that. And then maybe after festival season we'll. We'll do something else. You know, go.
• 57:54
  Speaker A: Hi, is it. Look at this is the complaints department now for this gig then we lost an hour when the clocks went back.
• 58:00
  Speaker C: Yes, good point. So Scott, get that, write your petition.
• 58:04
  Speaker A: Brian was right. Brian was the one saying he was. But I already had a bit of a. And I had tinnitus because the sound engineer gave me tinnitus. And then bride that was bright correctly told me. No, it's not. The time is. We've still got another hour. The venue said that we would get another hour but they didn't. They didn't. So I've actually asked the same question to the article because randomly we are playing exactly a year later on a Saturday night when the clocks go back. So it might happen again.
• 58:32
  Speaker C: Right. Okay.
• 58:33
  Speaker A: So I can't. I can't do much apart from say. Can we just clarify that the bouncers are going to look at the clock and it's three o'. Clock. Are we all right for that? I'm going to get confirmation in writing,
• 58:43
  Speaker C: so don't let it scare you for life, Mark. Right.
• 58:46
  Speaker A: I scar me for life. It was just a lot. It was a big. It was a lot. It was a lot of a year that was. That wasn't the. The worst there. But yeah, the amazing song and album tour will be stunning.
• 58:59
  Speaker C: Says Stacy, a great supporter of my music and all our music. What a legend.
• 59:04
  Speaker A: And Stuart's glad he didn't have to go out. Some people managed to stay in.
• 59:09
  Speaker C: I was. I was firmly placed at the bar. There was no movement. So that's good. So the last Gyro Babies ever is there. I'm going to promote you now, 28th, 2020 for March.
• 59:21
  Speaker A: 28th of March.
• 59:22
  Speaker C: And the art school is going to be amazing. Can't wait. We'll be there. I was at a Gyro Babies gig once on Not Whistney. I was at an art school school and it was Mr. Scruff and the fire alarm went off and we all got chucked out in the street and it was the middle of winter. It was horrible. Happened to optimal ones too. What a boring fact. Anyway, there it is there, Mark. There's your show right there. The farewell show. Tickets on schedule through. You call that radio?
• 59:48
  Speaker A: Yeah. Shout outs to Martin Lindy bank, who's made a lovely piece of art.
• 59:53
  Speaker C: It's gorgeous.
• 59:54
  Speaker A: And hopefully I remember to get the. The printouts because people want the printout. Some people are wanting the high vises. So I'm going to try and get high visions then.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker C: Oh my God, that's a great idea.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker A: And me and Goddy have been Cooking up a couple of tunes that were unfinished, that were finishing. So I think we might have a wee album of like lost B sides and stuff as well.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker C: Sketches. I love that. But that's going to be a great. So much is looking good for. For shows kicking off on the fifth, which is a week today.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker A: Yeah, this is. Forget about January and February. It's. We've made it. We've nearly made it.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker C: Nearly Looks like we've nearly made it.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker A: Nearly made it. Darren's in the house. Emerged expecting.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker C: Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker A: Right, okay. I thought Dan had misspelled. Of course he didn't. Of course he didn't. And I haven't seen Dan's most recent update. I seen he post a video but I, I know that because Dan's left Twitter. Dan's got a UK tour as well. Dan McGarvey, check out his. He's got a massive tour this year as well, selling nicely and he's currently turning. He misses Twitter so much. It seems like he's turning Facebook into Twitter.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker C: Only Dan could do that. But he's doing well.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker A: He's doing great. No, everyone's arguing. It's great. It's getting that engagement. So check out Darren's tour as well.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker C: Twitter and his Twitter. We've been playing Elon Musk this whole time.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker A: So the, the tour. One more time. Let's do it one more.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker C: Let's do it all.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker A: Give us a one more sales pitch. We're done an hour.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker C: So after the Fog air the tour, this is me with a full amazing world class band tour in rural Scotland. All these locations here, the Kelly Place in Ullapool, then the town Melon Shaven, Cat Strand, New Galloway, then Rossi for a wee spring trip across the water. And lastly, 21st of June, closing this album down because I've got a new one already in the pipeline with the relaunch at the Glad Cafe in Glasgow. Supports to be announced for that. Looking forward to that. That's going to be a homecoming.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker A: Becky loves it when the tour, when her interviews become about me, says Darren, sorry and I've just interrupted you at a key moment, but I was actually wanting to ask you, you said you had a Glasgow support act already. Are you not announcing it yet?
• 1:02:23
  Speaker C: I've not announced it yet, but she is an amazing artist, a female artist that I have known for 20 plus years and she was kind of dormant, I guess for a wee bit. And over the last like five years she's become just like so such a brilliant songwriter. She's absolutely class. So I'm looking forward to what my heart. And then I'll. I've got a couple other ideas as well for after parties and stuff like that so we'll see what happens.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker A: Amazing. So. And yeah, there's going to be more announcements. We've got. I think we've got a straving announcement coming soon but I think I need. Well, you've not confirmed that you're all right, but. So we'll check. We'll get back to stream.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker C: Yeah, I'm all right with that but also if anyone is out there and you have not bought a ticket net for next Thursday, a week today for the Song Seeds concert. That is going to be something really beautiful and special. A big, big festival sound band experience with the beautiful Mellow Party supporting Hunters. I mean you've got like Cleggs for instance that's Ember Quine and Doug, that's their band. So they've got some new stuff they're putting on Myself obviously you've got Ashley who's part of Festy Moths. You've got Eve Davidson who's now Witch Wound, an amazing artist that's about right now. Hot Toy which is a brilliant duo, husband and wife. Jewel Jody Arc there as well. You've got a Leslie o' Brien of the Carlton Jug Band fame. Lorna Reed, an amazing jazz artist. Lucky Motherson is our very own Alan Govin who's doing some of his brilliant music which he doesn't do enough of. Shout outs to Alan and the Mug Shack. You've got Micah Segris there, world class amazing artist. Johnny Slater Marion which is Mo Gourley who is a fantastic artist as well. Sarah Grace pop tastic voice like is ridiculous. Sharon Lazybot who does like she plays violin while singing. She's just the weirdest.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker A: Yeah, I remember it.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker C: It didn't Rubble and. And actually Viv as well there who's like a kind of rapper although don't know if sadly Viv can make it. But there'll be some surprises as well and then the amazing Mellow party. So it's going to be packed full of amazing tunes. There's no changeovers. There's going to be a bunch of people on stage and a concert so it'll be really cool. Very chills Holland and it will be on your link.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker A: It'll go on your link tree in about five minutes.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker C: It will indeed be so you can get your tickets there and please do come. I'm nervous. I don't like this new world of having to Sell tickets and wait for payday and all that. But it's payday tomorrow, so it's a good time.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker A: And thank you to everyone who's voted in the poll. Should I usually call that radio for bookings or rebrand? It's 90 to 10.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker C: Well, I think that answers your question, doesn't it? One person out there thinks you're Brandon Shite and everyone else thinks it's great.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker A: Well, it's just for the bookings. I. I think that 90 of you all are wrong and I'll rebrand anyway, so. But thanks for playing Correct.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker C: You're going corporate, aren't you?
• 1:05:29
  Speaker A: Yeah, no, that's.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker C: I wanted to do so you can go corporate.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker A: I want to call myself Audio Solutions and then it's just like a Audio Solutions limited. It's just a beige website and it's
• 1:05:44
  Speaker C: just a microphone outline is like the logo and that's it.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker A: Event Solutions Tour Solutions. Solutions for Solutions.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker C: Optimize your event solutions.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker A: Run the jewels Holland. Amazing. Okay, so good luck with the tour and thanks for getting involved. I'm. I'm excited to see. I'll definitely try and get a couple to the few of them. A couple of them, definitely. Well, I'm going to do Super Super Sunday. The Velvet Underpants. Becky Wallace back to Glasgow for jinx linen at McCool's. That sounds like I could do it. So everyone just pick one and buy a ticket and also check out the album when. How can people hear that after the Fog air?
• 1:06:29
  Speaker C: It's on Spotify, but if you go to Band Camp. I don't really pitch for Spotify that much. Go to Band Camp and get it. Listen to it there. You can listen to it or buy it for as much or as little as you want or for nothing. So it's there. It's. It's a great way album. So I would love more people to get their footprint on it and listen to it before the tour would be great.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker A: Amazing. Well, hopefully, by the way, we might actually make it for Thursday night. I think about it because if the weather's like it is this week, I'm gonna need to come to Glasgow a day early. So I might be there.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker C: Yes.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker A: That's just the way it, isn't it? Thank you to everyone who supports the show on Patreon. This show wouldn't exist without you. Thank you very much. Good luck with the tour, Becky. Hopefully see you at the harvest on Thursday.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker C: Yep, see you. Thanks for having me, Mark. Bye. Bye.