Souled out Scottish bands...
Just been reading on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ news about Hue and Cry's 'comeback' 20 years after they first experienced success in the charts.
In the article Pat Kane talks about those early days of "a lot of hype in the press about blue-eyed Scottish soul bands...We were quite a distinctive group - Danny Wilson, Deacon Blue, Texas, Wet Wet Wet, ourselves."
I have got great memories of those times as working at a Glasgow radio station and writing a pop column for The Evening Times, I was slap bang in the middle of the action.
Many Get It On listeners seem to have good memories of that time judging by the amount of times we get asked for Danny Wilson, Hue and Cry, Deacon Blue and Texas. The one that's missing is Wet,Wet,Wet. Wonder why? Is it that they were the 'less cool' members of the Glasgow scene or was it the fact they enjoyed great success as bona fide pop stars that switched the 'musos' off?
Either way I'm glad that we've been asked for Angel Eyes on tonight's angels and devils show as it will remind us all of what a great debut Popped In, Souled Out was.... And it's definitely aged better than Sham 69's Angels With Dirty Faces, but more on that later.
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At 16th Sep 2008, norriemaclean wrote:There are a few bands we forget about then when they are suggest we thing....yup good stuff! You have played a couple of Lloyd Cole and The Commotions tracks which come into that category and sounded brilliant, others...
Aztec Camera
River Detectives
Teenage Fan Club
Rezillos
Skids
Trash Can Sinatras
Big Dish
Love and Money
maybe I'm way outwith your time frame but all great bands!
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At 16th Sep 2008, JuliefromEdinburgh wrote:Oh, I've seen Wet Wet Wet twice and, although they may be the band that do the least for any amount of street-cred I may profess to have, Marti is a great showman. Saw them at Edinburgh Castle and, since I worked there at the time, my friend and I had managed to get our hands on free passes for the show - and were in The Castle beforehand. Couldn't get access to the esplanade via the drawbridge behind the stage so used the access through the "coalyard" gate just to the side. En route, we amused ourselves doing shadow shapes in front of the floodlights then, when we were in our spot on the esplanade we realised that the shadows made by people passing in front of the lights were huge on the castle wall. Wonder how our flying birds, barking dogs and bunny rabbits went down as pre-show entertainment.
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At 24th Sep 2008, ConsettKebab wrote:Wet Wet Wet are the kinda band yer granny likes.
Give me Sham 69 anytime.
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At 24th Sep 2008, JuliefromEdinburgh wrote:I've never seen Sham 69 but I used to go to a lot of punk gigs. The WWW crowd was a bit different - I'd never been to a concert with a teenage, girly, screaming audience before - quite a change!
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