Showing posts with label Gone Wishing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gone Wishing. Show all posts

Wednesday, 3 June 2015

Video - Behold, The Old Bear - Restless Days


You might remember this track from our split tape with Behold, The Old Bear and Gone Wishing which was released for Cassette Store Day last year.

Restless Days  from the split has been given the ol' Hollywood treatment with a new video to accompany the track.  The video was directed and produced by Ross Woodhead and filmed in the Gaiety Theatre in Ayr.

Restless Days- Behold the Old Bear from Ross Woodhead on Vimeo.



Remember you can still get the split EP in all it's cassette glory here, or if it's just the tunes you want then fill your boots and download.

Tuesday, 30 September 2014

Scottish Fiction Podcast - 29th September 2014


Joining me on this week's show were two of Scotland's finest young songwriters, Andrew Pearson and Lovers Turn To Monsters.   Fresh from releasing their collaborative album Everything We Miss,  they chatted about the process of recording together and treated us to three live tracks.

And in order to sate the appetite for the best new Scottish music there's tracks from White, Jonnie Common and LYLO. Our usual features included too with a classic track from Camera Obscura, a Re-Mixing It Up track from Jo Mango via Carbs, a Cover Lover track from The Last Battle, and a vinyl play of a 2002 single from Idlewild.

Vasa - Not A Cop
Baren - Youth
LYLO - Forever, Spaced
Andrew Pearson & Lovers Turn To Monsters - "My Dad doesn't really like my interests, I can only imagine what he'd make of you" - Live in Pulse 98.4 Studio
RE-MIXING IT UP - Jo Mango - Kingdom (Carbs Remix)
blood blood - destiny stencil
Boygirlanimalcolour - Cable-tie
Deathcats - Comin' Up
Andrew Pearson & Lovers Turn To Monsters - Lavender - Live in Pulse 98.4 Studio
Marie Collins - Buddy Holly
CLASSIC TRACK - Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country
Gone Wishing - Hoist Your Head Into The Light
Behold, The Old Bear - Seven Maybe Eight
VINYL PLAY - Idlewild - Live In A Hiding Place
The Meanest Creature Ever Known - Knives - As chosen by Andrew Pearson
Andrew Pearson & Lovers Turn To Monsters - Jason Voorhees - Live in Pulse 98.4 Studio
Chrissy Barnacle - Nightride - As chosen by Lovers Turn To Monsters
Yusuf Azak - State Courage (Piano Version)
COVER LOVER - The Last Battle - You're The Best
White - Living Fiction
Jonnie Common - Shark


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Scottish Fiction - 29th September 2014 by Scottish Fiction on Mixcloud

Monday, 22 September 2014

Scottish Fiction Podcast - 22nd September 2014


This week's show marked the return of our Scottish Fiction Sessions, as I was joined in the Pulse 98.4 FM studio by acoustic singer-songwriter Dear Lara.  The man behind Dear Lara, David Lan, chatted about his music and influences, as well as playing stunning live versions of tracks from his latest EP 'Cape North'.

There's also new music from Carnivores, Hector Bizerk, and Turning Plates; plus a classic track from Cocteau Twins, a Re-Mixing It Up track from Jo Mango via Machines In Heaven, a glorious cover version from Turtle and Eliza Shaddad, and a vinyl play of a gorgeous track from Siobhan Wilson.

Withered Hand - Black Tambourine
Brownbear - Dead Or Alive
Suspire - On A Clear Day
Hector Bizerk - The Fish That Never Swam
Dear Lara - Penny - Live in Pulse 98.4 Studio
Turning Plates - A Hymn To A Quickening
Gone Wishing - The Watchers
Behold, The Old Bear - Demons In Love
VINYL TRACK - Siobhan Wilson - Dear God
Dear Lara - Girl In My Head - Live in Pulse 98.4 Studio
The Thrills - The End of Innocence - As chosen by Dear Lara
Vukovi - So Long Gone
Blank Canvas - Your Sin
RE-MIXING IT UP - Jo Mango - The Black Sun (Machines In Heaven Remix)
The Phantom Band - (Invisible) Friends
Dear Lara - Book Club - Live in Pulse 98.4 Studio
COVER LOVER - Eliza Shaddad & Turtle - Driftwood
Boygirlanimalcolour - JUPITER FIST
Carnivores - Let's Get Metaphysical
CLASSIC TRACK - Cocteau Twins - Ribbed And Veined
BMX Bandits - My Girl Midge

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Monday, 15 September 2014

FIRST LISTEN: Gone Wishing / Behold The Old Bear - Hoist Your Head Into The Light / Demons In Love


Last week, courtesty of Ravechild, Podcart and Last Year's Girl, you were able to get a first listen to tracks from our upcoming Cassette Store Day releases. 

Boygirlanimalcolour - JUPITER FISTGone Wishing - The Watchers,  and Behold, The Old Bear - Restless Day  are all still streaming online, and you can check them out via the Scottish Fiction SoundCloud page as well.


We're delighted to bring you another two tracks from the Gone Wishing / Behold, The Old Bear split cassette, which will be released via Scottish Fiction for Cassette Store Day on Saturday, 27th September. 

From Gone Wishing, here's the meloncholic Hoist Your Head Into The Light:




And from Behold, The Old Bear, have a listen to Demons In Love:



The Gone Wishing / Behold, The Old Bear split will be released via Scottish Fiction, alongwith single JUPITER FIST  by Boygirlanimalcolour on Saturday, 27th September for Cassette Store Day.  All three acts will be playing in-store performances on Cassette Store Day (Saturday 27th September) at LOVE Music in Glasgow (2pm) and VoxBox Records in Edinburgh (5pm), and copies of the cassettes can be purchased from local record shops.

Tuesday, 2 September 2014

Cassette Store Day - Scottish Fiction Releases


Cassette Store Day comes but once a year bringing with it a whole heap of exclusive lo-fi indie releases.  You know the drill, support your independent record shops, record labels, and local bands by coming out on Saturday 27th September and buying some cassettes.

So you may already have heard it through the grapevine, but Scottish Fiction have got not one but TWO cassette releases lined up as part of the festivities.  For a full list of what is being release, what stores are participating and what events are on check out the official CSD website.  Here's some more about our releases:



It's a pleasure and privilege to be able to release the debut single from Boygirlanimalcolour which is called JUPITER FIST.  Fans of Lovers Turn To Monsters, may recognise Boygirlanimalcolour as Kyle's old  band, however the trio; Kyle, Barry and Findlay; got back together earlier this year for some practices and shows, and now voila!  It's no secret I'm a massive LTTM fan, but Boygirlanimalcolour are a different beast entirely.

With equal parts pop-punk and '90's emo swirling in a cacophony of frenzied guitars and crashing drums, Boygirlanimalcolour are back with a bang.  JUPITER FIST  is backed by B-side Cable-tie,  while all the artwork comes from Findlay from the band.



Our second release is a split from two fantastic musicians who we have supported at Scottish Fiction for a while.  Both have featured on the blog and radio show, as well as both recording a live session for the radio show last year. 

Gone Wishing is an acoustic alternative songwriter, with comparison to Bill Callaghan and Mike Kinsella, directing his emotive musing right to the heart.  On this release Gone Wishing offers up three brand new tracks; The Watchers,  Hoist Your Head Into The Light  and Nothing And Nowhere,  all of which showcase his heartfelt talent.  Gone Wishing has also contributed the artwork for this split release.  Please do check out more of his incredible art here - www.facebook.com/gonewishingdoesart

Behold, The Old Bear, led by Raindeer of Mitchell Museum fame, take making fun, quirky and inventive pop music very seriously.  With three tracks from them; Restless Days,  Demons In Love  and Seven Maybe Eight  on the other side of this split cassette, we think it's a winning combination. 


Both cassette will be available on Cassette Store Day from participating stores, and both are limited to 50 copies, and both will come with download links.  We'll be in a position to let you hear some tracks from the releases a little later on this month, so be on the look out for that. 

On the day itself, Saturday 27th September y'all, all three acts will be doing in-store performances at LOVE Music in Glasgow at 2pm and then VoxBox Records in Edinburgh at 5pm, so come along, say hi and pick up a cassette or two!

Sunday, 2 February 2014

Gone Wishing - Scottish Fiction Session - Videos


Gone Wishing is the solo stylings of Owen McLaughlin, member of Dundee bands Bonehouse and The Won Over, as well as Dundee arts collective The Rusty Hip.  A talented musician, it's in the acoustic guise of Gone Wishing that his song-writing comes to the fore, wearing the influences of lo-fi alt-rock acts such as Owen, American Football and Smog.  This session was recorded in the comfy studio of Pulse Community Radio.




Below are videos for session tracks, 'Hands Weigh Heavy', 'The Confidant' and 'The Fires of Future Strangers'.  Enjoy, and check out YouTube page for all session videos.

Saturday, 30 November 2013

Scottish Fiction Podcast - 27 November 2013


There have been so many bearded singer songwriters on the show this year, that it will become enshrined that all our live guests must have facial hair.  But when there's so many folk out there making great music, it's difficult to ignore.  The latest guest live on Scottish Fiction, was Owen McLaughlin, who goes by the name Gone Wishing.  He chatted about his music, influences, differences between band and solo work, and also picked the music for the first part of the show.  There's the chance to hear three live songs too, all from his forthcoming new EP 'The Fires Of Future Strangers'.  On the show as well, there's new music from Withered Hand, There Will Be Fireworks, Casual Sex, Turtle and much much more!


Withered Hand - Black Tambourine

The National - About Today - As chosen by Gone Wishing

Gone Wishing - Hands Weigh Heavy - Live in Pulse 98.4 studio

Gone Wishing - The Fires Of Future Strangers - Live in Pulse 98.4 studio

Ryan Adams - Do I Wait - As chosen by Gone Wishing

Gone Wishing - The Confidant - Live in Pulse 98.4 studio

The Van Pelt - The Young Alchemists - As chosen by Gone Wishing

Casual Sex - Nothing On Earth
Franz Ferdinand - Bullet
There Will Be Fireworks - Youngblood
Robbie Lesiuk - Fault Lines
DEATHCATS!!! - Surfing In My Head
Hagana - Fuzzy Punch
A Sudden Burst Of Colour - Let Go Or Be Dragged
Turtle - Who Knows
The Leg - Quantum Suicide
Randolph's Leap - Psychic
Daves Like These - Honey
King Post Kitsch - The Silver Screen


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Wednesday, 27 November 2013

We're Only Here For The Banter - Gone Wishing


The fact that year after year, there continue to be acoustic and lo-fi singer-songwriters writing 'sad' songs that grab my attention must say something about my psyche.  Perhaps it's the perennial stereotype of a Scotsman unable to deal with talking about feelings, or perhaps it's because it's one of genres that are difficult to really nail, therefore when someone does you appreciate it all the more.  Either way, Dundee artist Owen McLaughlin is a talent and busy man.  When not promoting gigs, or playing in bands Bonehouse or The Won Over, he pens lo-fi tunes under the name Gone Wishing.  I caught up with him recently for a chat.

Hello, how are you?

I'm good thanks though a little soggy having just come in from the rain.

It's the question everyone hates, but could you tell us a little bit about your music and your influences?


I write acoustic songs that are usually summed up by words like introspective and sad.  I have a fairly varied taste in music so influences are from all sorts of stuff.  Generally speaking Gone Wishing is probably most influenced by Ryan Adams, Owen, Del Amitri, Sun Kill Moon and Bon Iver.

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

When I write songs it tends to be me just sitting alone playing about with my guitar.  I do this a lot and at some point the random riff here or there becomes a song.  I usually then take forever to write some lyrics to accompany it.  I do tend to write vocal melodies before words a lot of the times so depending on which point in the process I'm at I can be heard from outside of my flat howling utter nonsense.

What could we expect to see from a live show?


I'm still finding my feet with Gone Wishing live and I tend to get a little nervous when I'm playing.  Visually you should expect a near 30 year old, bearded, ginger man sat huddled over his guitar in abject terror.  As far as my stage banter goes it's a mix of incoherent ramblings and the over-use of the word sad.  I do love the feeling of playing live when it's going well and I definitely think the crowd have enjoyed the more intimate vibe that the above creates when mixed with my tunes.

Where does the name Gone Wishing come from? Is it important to have a pseudonym as a solo artist?


I named myself Gone Wishing because I was looking for something that started with the letters GW as that's my nickname to a fair few people.  GW is rather tongue in cheek name I gave myself when promoting shows back in the day (The "G" standing for Ginger and the "W" standing for something that rhymes with banker).  I picked Gone Wishing as it captures the sentiment behind a lot of my lyrics and I'm a reasonably big fan of puns.  As far as a pseudonym goes I genuinely only went down that road as my name is Owen and given one of the original influences in my acoustic playing was Owen I thought it best to avoid the obvious confusion.  That said I like the idea of having names for projects and keeping yourself free to change it up should you want to.

What would you say has been your greatest achievement so far?


I think releasing my tape (The Gone Wishing Tape) and have people not only buy it but be vocal about enjoying it.  I didn't ever start writing acoustic tunes with a grand plan or even necessarily letting other folk hear them so it's nice to know that others connect with it.

What have you got planned next?

I'm in the middle of recording my new record. The Fires of Future Strangers EP with the excellent Chris Marr of Esperi/Fall On studios.  The plan is to release it early next year (not sure through what label yet though) and then I think I'll probably be looking at an album of some sorts next year.   Short term I have a few shows lined up over the next couple of weeks including Book Yer Ane Fest next weekend, Victor Villareal and TTNG at Audio in Glasgow on the 5th December and then the following week I'll be playing with Owen, The Great Albatross and Lovers Turn to Monsters at Audio on the 11th December.

What other artists (Scottish or not) would you recommend to the Scottish Fiction readers?


I think in Scotland there's a few great acts that aren't really well known that definitely should be (especially singer/songwriter wise).  Acts like Esperi, Little Anchors, Smithsonian, Ashley Park, Blood Indians and Lovers Turn to Monsters are all fantastic.  I recognise all of the above are from the East coast.  There's loads through on the West too but they tend to be mentioned more often so I'm sticking with it.

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


This comes from Ali Smith of the Shithawks but here goes:

"I used to know the difference between a xylophone and a glockenspiel but I can't marimba"


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Sunday, 17 November 2013

Scottish Fiction Podcast - 13th November 2013


Talk about a broad spectrum!  In this week's show there's hip-hop from Kobi Onyame and Young Fathers, punk from Medals and Sink Alaska, indie-folk from Michael Cassidy and a dose of post rock from Wolves of Winter.  Not to mention some remixing action from De Rosa, a ballboy cover of Bruce Springstein and a whole heaps more of the best new Scottish music about.


Book Group - The Lowdown of a LOUD Sound
The Birthday Suit - A Bigger World
We Were Promised Jetpacks - Circles And Squares
This Silent Forest - Root To The Seed

Cover Lover - ballboy - Born In The USA

Jo Mango - When We Lived In The Crook Of A Tree
Wolves Of Winter - Dream Catchers
Michael Cassidy - Everybody's Scared
Gone Wishing - Decoys
Kobi Onyame - Goodbye World Hello
Young Fathers - Low
Riquelme - To The Country
Lightning Papa Tam - Got Soul
Medals - Sit Back Down, Judas
Sink Alaska - Hitless Wonder
Forest Fires - Foreverlution
Alarm Bells - Hold Down

Tweet-a-track - King Post Kitsch - Fante's Last Stand - As chosen by @majesticben

Squirls - Stuck In A Bog

Re-Mixing It Up - Two Seconds To Midnight - With A Whisper Not A Bang Pt. One (De Rosa Remix)

The Mirror Trap - American Dreams
The Second Hand Marching Band - We Will Convince You
Frightened Rabbit - Holy


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Saturday, 12 October 2013

Scottish Fiction Podcast - 9th October 2013


No live guest this week, so it was me on my todd, chattering away like a parrot.  (See the picture has a very tedious relevance).  However making up for this is the return of features such as Cover Lover, Re-Mixing It Up and Tweet-a-track.  There is also a whole host of great new music from The Grand Gestures, The Little Kicks, The Spook School and more! 

The Beta Band - Squares
Atom Tree - Die For You Love
Giant Fang - Golden Age

Cover Lover - The Deep Red Sky - Kids

Fractures - The Walk
The Grand Gestures - Running With Scissors
Gone Wishing - This Barren Ground
Trapped In Kansas - Only Child
The Spook School - Will You Always Be My Friend

Re-Mixing It Up - Hector Bizerk - Burst Love (Machines In Heaven Remix)

Fat Goth - Debbie's Dirty Harry
Honeyblood - Bud
The Yawns - Summer's Wasted
The Barents Sea - For The Record
The Little Kicks - Girl
CHVRCHES - Science/Visions
Over The Wall - Tell Her I Love Her

Tweet-a-track - Lidh - Rockpool Hospital - As chosen by @ed_sings

The Twilight Sad - Cold Days From The Birdhouse
Blood Relatives - Deerheart


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