The band toured throughout 1986, and Gillespie became disenchanted with the quality of their performances. He said that there “was always something missing, musically or in attitude.” They switched to McGee’s newly set-up Warner Bros. subsidiary Elevation Records . Before the band entered Rockfield Studios in Wales to record their…
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After the punk movement ended, Gillespie became disenchanted with mainstream new wave music . He met another schoolfriend who shared his outlook, Jim Beattie, and they recorded “elemental noise tapes”, in which Gillespie would bang two dustbin lids together and Beattie played fuzz-guitar. They soon moved on to the Velvet…
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The band features in the book Postcards from Scotland detailing the 1980s and 1990s independent music scene in Scotland.
Bobby Gillespie moved to Mount Florida in southeastern Glasgow, where he attended King’s Park Secondary School , where he first met Robert Young. Another schoolfriend was Alan McGee , who took Gillespie to see his first concert, Thin Lizzy . McGee and Gillespie were heavily influenced by punk rock ,…
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