Scottish Fiction Podcast - 17th October 2012

Took a while to get this podcast up (apologies) but you can forgive me as on this show we have a plethora of new music from the likes of Gav Prentice, Salo, Vasa and Three Blind Wolves. There's also all four of the Peenko Postcard tracks scattered across the show.

Our Aye Tunes Friday Freebies track comes from op, our Re-Mixing It Up track is a Discopolis remix of a Miaoux Miaoux track, our Featured Artists is the wonderful Withered Hand and our Classic Scottish Album is Admiral Fallow's debut 'Boots Met My Face'.


Johnny And The Giros - I Don't Need A Lover
The Douglas Firs - Backroads
Behold The Old Bear - C403
Three Blind Wolves - Parade

Classic Scottish Album - Admiral Fallow - Old Balloons - Boots Met My Face

Aye Tunes Friday Freebie - op - 4

RM Hubbert - Heisenberg
Kitty The Lion - Duck!
Thank You So Nice - Plasticine
How To Swim - It Doesn't Even Have To Be You
French Wives - Halloween
Gav Prentice - Give It Up
The Son(s) - All My Days Are Shorter
Sálo -  Without Skin

Featured Artist
Withered Hand - Religious Songs
Withered Hand - Heart Heart
Withered Hand - Inbetweeners

Vasa - Cynthia
Cancel The Astronauts - Seven Vices

Re-Mixing It Up - Miaoux Miaoux - Better For Now (Discopolis Remix)

Lovers Turn To Monsters - Rabbits
Very Well - Dead Happy
Randolph's Leap - This Ain't It
ANAKANAK - AGEOLD
Drunk Mule - Am A Hardcore Dancer

Scottish Fiction - 17th October 2012 by Scottish Fiction on Mixcloud

Scottish Ficton July 2012 EP

Another month, another free EP and another whole heap of great Scottish music to treat your ears with.  This month we have the pleasure of having music from M A D I S O N, Aperture, Johnny And The Giros and Penfold.  If you've been paying attention to the Scottish Fiction blog then you'll also know that we are unleashing twelve exclusive tracks as hidden downloads amongst our previous EP's, including this one.  Which means for each of our EP's you download you'll get an extra bonus track!  For now though, here's links to the 'We're Only Here For The Banter' posts which each of our four artists for this month.  Enjoy the EP and feel free to share and go hunting for our twelve exclusive tracks!

M A D I S O N
Aperture
Johnny And The Giros
Penfold

We're Only Here For The Banter - Johnny And The Giros

Having formed in 2009, Johnny And The Giros have employed a strong work ethic to convert the masses to their side.  The six piece from Stirling have enjoyed sell out shows in Tut's, and recently released their second single, 'The Day That Friction Overcame Fun'.  With the band due back at King Tut's on 26th July as part of King Tut's Summer Nights, we caught up with them for a quick chinwag.

Hello, how are you?

Very well thank you!

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

It is a very tough question to answer, hard to find the balance between overselling and underselling yourself.  We play a brand of indie/electronic/pop.  We like experimenting with different sounds and pedals to try and create some interesting noises.  In terms of influences, there is a very eclectic range of personal influences but in terms of the band, common influences include Foals, Yeasayer, The Rapture and all sorts of house and electro kind of stuff.

What's your song writing process like?

Our writing process generally works with an individual idea then it gets worked on, changed, argued about, then settled somewhere in the middle.

If it were all to end tomorrow, what would you say has been your greatest achievement?

We have played some incredible shows which has taken us to all sorts of places.  We are particularly proud of playing O2 Academy and headlining King Tut's.

What have you got planned for the second half of 2012?

We have big plans afoot for the second half of 2012.  We are in the studio recording some tracks at the minute, which will be getting some sort of release.  Also planning a tour around September time.

At Scottish Fiction we focus on new Scottish music, how do you as a band view the Scottish music 'community'?

I find it very supporting of each other, we have made some really great friends doing gigs around the place.  Also with everyone using Twitter these days, it's made it far better for bands to communicate with bloggers, bookers, radio presenters and other bands of course.

What other Scottish artists would you recommend to the Scottish Fiction readers?

Oooft, there is hundreds of great artists at the minute.  Local to us there is Jack Butler, Davey Horne, Miniature Dinosaurs and Two Stripe.  Also Vigo Thieves, but I'm sure everyone will have heard of them by now, as they've had a magnificent 2012 so far.

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

A man gets in to a fight with Batman, who hits him with a vase and goes "T'Pau!"
Don't you mean "KAPOW?", asks the man.
"No" says Batman.  "I've got china in my hands!"


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