Scottish Fiction Podcast - 8th February 2015

Reppin' Aberdeenshire, and more recently Glasgow, my session guest on this show is the immensely talented, not to mention modest, Yusuf Azak.  His albums, most recently Peace in the Underworld and before that Native Son,  contain more ideas than many artists manage in an entire career, a style born out of experimentalism and free form.  In amongst chatting about his music, Yusuf performed three tracks live in the studio all of which are here for your listening pleasure.

Your new music fix can be sated with cuts from The Duke, Detroit, Baby Strange, Tijuana Bibles, Turtle, and C Duncan.  Hook in and enjoy!

Withered Hand - King of Hollywood
Michael Cassidy - 15 Years
Tijuana Bibles - Sun Chaser
The Insomniac Project - Shake Those Demons
Yusuf Azak - Silver Rose (Live in Pulse 98.4 Studio)
The Phantom Band - Tender Castle
RE-MIXING IT UP - Admiral Fallow - Paper Trench (Miaoux Miaoux Remix)
The Duke, Detroit - Iconic
Malcolm Middleton and David Shrigley - Dear Brain
Yusuf Azak - Go Native (Live in Pulse 98.4 Studio)
Lady North - Bum Jiggy - As chosen by Yusuf Azak
Baby Strange - VVV
Catholic Action - Somebody Made For Me
OSKAR - WILDINGS
The Twilight Sad - I Could Give You All That You Don't Want
Yusuf Azak - Eastern Son (Live in Pulse 98.4 Studio)
Turtle - Colours
C Duncan - Say
COVER LOVER - Pinact - You Gave Your Love To Me Softly
Atom Tree - Sinner
Prides - Higher Love


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Scottish Fiction - 8th February 2015 by Scottish Fiction on Mixcloud

We're Only Here For The Banter - The Duke, Detroit

With a name like The Duke, Detroit, you'd be forgiven for believing this Edinburgh four piece to be a solo project.  The Duke, as we they are affectionately known, emerged in full form late last year, garnering airplay and reviews for debut single Saturday.  A band with a real electro 'summertime' vibe, they've enjoyed a spate of gigs recently, and have a host of new tracks to boot.  Read on, read on, read on.


Hello!  How the devil are you?

We're all feeling pretty dandy, think we're finally recovered after our show at King Tut's at the weekend and the after party that went with it.

It's the question everyone hates, but could illuminate our readers with a little bit about your music and your influences?

We're an 'electro-indie' band but we like to dip into other genres, play with samples and reference previous artists or songs that have influenced us and our listeners.  Vague, I know.  We mainly draw our influences from post-punk, New York disco, French electro and '50's rock 'n' roll.

What's your song-writing / creative process like?

We try and keep it as natural as possible, let the song write itself.  With our instrumentation we will always retain 'The Duke' sound.  We don't like to force the songs into other genres.  If we've written a swing song, it's going to be Duke-flipping swing song!

What could we expect to see from a live show?

We like to mix it up a bit live, such as letting the tracks run into one another creating some real nice, melodic interludes between some of the songs.  Allowing it to become a bit more of a show oppose to just a gig.

But mainly...  Sweaty vests, and floppy quiffs.

Tell us about latest track Summer's Come.

Summer's Come  right now is just a track we put up online recently as a bit of a feeler for some of our unreleased material.  It won't actually be released until next summer.  We just felt Scotland had such a great summer this year; with the commonwealth games and the lovely weather; and that this could be our contribution.

What else have you got planned for the rest of 2014?

We are in the process of getting ourselves together to release our tune Dangerous.  So that means all our focus right now is on filming and gigging.  Got some remixes we will be putting up online over the next few months as well.  So keep an eye out for them!

What are you listening to at the moment?

Right now we are listening to Young Fathers album Dead.  Incredible album and proud to say we are from the same city.  We also listening to Honeyblood.  We were lucky enough to play with them the other week.  Real charm to their sound and really enjoying the debut!  But our favorite is Night Noise Team Rever Electrique.  Absolute masterpiece and everyone should check it out.

Thanks for speaking with us, would you care to share a joke with us?

How many drummers does it take to change a light bulb?

"Oops, I broke it!"

Lame, we know...


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Scottish Fiction Podcast - 30th July 2014

I've had baby brain since last week following the birth of my daughter (it seeps a little bit into this podcast too.  Sorry!)  So as much as that is fantastic, it's also great to sit behind the microphone to record this latest episode of Scottish Fiction.  Mainly because I've been sitting on a ton of great tracks that deserve an airing.  Included in that are new ones from Garden Of Elks, Prides and Owl John, plus two session tracks courtesy of our friends over at Netsounds Unsigned and Houdidontblog.

Garden Of Elks - Yoop
Bright Side - Breaking Even
Lovers Turn To Monsters - Jason Voorhees
Pinact - Novembore (IG:LU Unplugged Session)
Owl John - Red Hand
Foreignfox - Yoghurt
Prides - I Should Know You Better
The Duke, Detroit - Summers Come
House Fire Kid - Rain Clouds
Andrew Pearson & Lovers Turn To Monsters - Another Dawn
Michael Cassidy - The Road (IG:LU Unplugged Session)
Gav Prentice - Where The Streets Have Royal Names


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