Here’s a Sparrow:
Here’s a Workshop:
Two very disparate things, you might think. I would think so, too, but apparently if you combine the two of them you get a sound like a sort of Country and Western desperation. Or so this Glasgow-based three-piece think, anyway. I’m not going to whinge about terrible band names, as this one isn’t all that bad, really, and anyway, everyone knows that the worst band name in the world is ‘The Beatles,’ so it doesn’t really matter, does it?
What do this lot sound like, then?
Well, here’s their Myspace.See what you think.
Oh, you actually want ME to tell YOU, do you? Lazy bastards. Well, if I must. Just don’t go disagreeing with me afterwards.
They sound like a Scottish Howling Bells, mainly- countrified, spaghetti-western guitar, raggedy drums and a sneering, crooning female singer whose lyrics speak of relationships which were more like battlegrounds, where both sides dished out plenty. The protagonist of the songs is no wilting victim- on one song she sings about wanting to break her man down and build him up again exactly the way she wants him. On ‘Gun’ she crows ‘Now you’re safe in jail/and I’m set free to sail’ but it’s not a ‘you can’t touch me any more’ vibe you get, it’s more a kind of ‘I set you up for the fall and now you’re doing time for the crime committed together’ sort of affair. What I’m saying is, don’t mess.
They’re not bad at all- a little derivative of the aforementioned Howling Bells, but that’s no bad thing. They sound like they’d be pretty good live, too. By the look of the gig list on their Myspace, pretty much all of Europe is going to get the opportunity to decide if I’m right. Not that all of Europe, or indeed any of it cares about my opinion, but you get the point, I hope.
Oh, and apparently they managed to convince Tom Robinson to say the word ‘manboob’ on National radio, which has got to be good for something, doesn’t it?
