Category Archives: Scottish Pop Song of the Day

Scottish Pop Song of the Day #43

Posted on June 10, 2011 by

Discopolis – Cold Summers (2011) I don’t know much about Discopolis, other than that they are three, and that they come from Edinburgh – and I’m equally unsure as to the etymology of their moniker. Is Discopolis a portmanteau of Disco and Metropolis … Continue reading →

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Scottish Pop Song of the Day #42

Posted on May 28, 2011 by

Panda Su – The Alphabet Song (2011) This is the third track from Fife-via-Dundee singer-songwriter Panda Su‘s latest EP, I Begin. I made it Single of the Month in the May issue of The List magazine, here. Panda Su also recently … Continue reading →

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Scottish Pop Song of the Day #41

Posted on May 16, 2011 by

Nick Robertson – Show Me A Sign (1992) I mentioned my adolescent ardour for Edinburgh soul-pop singer-songwriter Nick Robertson when I wrote about Pride & Joy, his duet with Maria McKee, here. Show Me A Sign was another highlight from his debut (and … Continue reading →

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Scottish Pop Song of the Day #40

Posted on May 12, 2011 by

Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells – The Copper Top (2011) A beautiful film for a beautiful song. “Birth, death, love – the only reasons to get dressed up.” That bit with the fly in the matchbox… The Copper Top is … Continue reading →

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Scottish Pop Song of the Day #39

Posted on May 11, 2011 by

Remember Remember – Imagining Things (2008) Summer-ish, 2004, and a chance gig at Glasgow School of Art bore much delightful fruit. First up was a very early performance from fluoro-techno livewire Germlin – alias Joe Howe of Gay Against You - and thereafter came local prog-brainiacs … Continue reading →

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Scottish Pop Song of the Day #38

Posted on May 4, 2011 by

Pensioner – Enter Shakira (2011) It’s hard to say what I like most about Pensioner at the moment. Let me count the ways… 1) They’re the most misleadingly-entitled rabble since The Barenaked Ladies. 2) Their melodic and raucous debut album, ‘Yearlings’ (Olive Grove), … Continue reading →

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Scottish Pop Song of the Day #37

Posted on April 14, 2011 by

The Spook School – History (2011) Well this is ace. The Spook School are a relatively new Edinburgh four-piece, not that you’d know it on the evidence of History: its cerebral indie power-pop already sounds vintage in all the right senses … Continue reading →

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Scottish Pop Song of the Day #36

Posted on April 11, 2011 by

Randolph’s Leap – Going Home (2010) It’s all about context. When I first heard this song on ’Battleships and Kettle Chips’ (Olive Grove), the debut EP from Glasgow six-piece Randolph’s Leap, I associated it with the hills beside me, the woods behind me, … Continue reading →

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Scottish Pop Song of the Day #35

Posted on April 2, 2011 by

Win – Super Popoid Groove (1987) Here’s  Scottish pop polymath Davy Henderson at his mainstream-baiting best. Betwixt his myriad Edinburgh art-pop conceptions (The Fire Engines in the early-eighties, The Nectarine No. 9 in the nineties and now The Sexual Objects), Henderson … Continue reading →

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Scottish Pop Song of the Day #34

Posted on April 1, 2011 by

The Cocteau Twins - Pearly-Dewdrops’ Drops (1984) You wonder where the musical world would be right now if it weren’t for Grangemouth. And when I say ‘Grangemouth’, I mean ‘The Cocteau Twins‘. Could the band have come from anywhere else? Would they have created such unearthly pop if … Continue reading →

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