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B A N D O F F O L L O W E R S Any well-rounded education should include a musical one, right? To keep you up to speed, David Pollock has put together a wee list of some of the best up-and-coming Scottish artists, so you can stay top of the class when it comes to new tracks
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APOSTILLE
HEIR OF THE KUBLER-ROSS
LAPS
SOLID BLAKE COLONEL MUSTARD
Michael Kasparis is perhaps most well-
known around Glasgow as the head of local
indie label Night School, which has an exemplary reputation for releasing fun, strange, exciting music new and old, by artists including Ela Orleans, AMOR, Cucina Povera, Rose McDowall
and the Space Lady. With this year’s Choose
Life album, however, he stepped i rmly into his own spotlight with a fray-edged set of irresistible art school
electro-pop straight out
of the 1980s. apostille.bandcamp.
com
CURSED
Beldina Odenyo Onassis
is a Kenyan-Scot who grew up in Dumfries, and whose music
encompasses a cross- section of styles from folk to jazz. Her live set is an unusual and starkly
affecting experience, a solo electric guitar performance which makes a feature of her striking voice,
compositional skill and ability as a musician of reserve and dramatic timing; and it’s no
surprise, given the latter element, that she’s also involved in theatrical work with the National Theatre of Scotland.
facebook.com/ heirofthecursed
Named in ‘honour’ of the Kubler-Ross cycle – which is more
commonly known as ‘the i ve stages of grief’ – Kubler-Ross are a Glasgow trio who create similarly mournful industrial
electronic music. Led by Dave Clark, who has plenty of previous on the Glasgow scene
as a frequent remix collaborator with JD Twitch of Optimo
(Espacio), and as one
half of the fondly- remembered Big
Ned, their number is completed by Carol Vortex and artist Katie
Shannon.
The most exciting band Cassie Ezeji has been in since the last exciting band she was in, LAPS
On her way to becoming one of Scotland’s most well-regarded young electronic producers,
(Ladies as Pimps, Emma Blake started out
named in honour of a Jay-Z track) are a raw and thrilling electronic
duo whose sound bears all the soulfulness and
raw punk power of Ezeji’s voice. She used
to be in Glasgow’s Golden Teacher, an equally outstanding group, while Alicia Matthews DJs and
fronts a show on NTS Radio as Sue Zuki. soundcloud.com/ ladies-as-pimps
in her native Glasgow attending Optimo
(Espacio) when she was too young to be there, while also producing
shows for Subcity Radio. After moving to Copenhagen, she became a founding member of the
international Apeiron Crew DJ collective, and now makes her own music for labels including Outer Zone.
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AND THE DIJON 5 Not so much a new band as one whose
gospel must be spread far and wide, Colonel Mustard and the Dijon 5 are an emphatically entertaining party band who take the sound of Happy Mondays or
Primal Scream and turn it up to eleven. Their fans wear colour- coordinated mustard yellow uniforms, and the band have been known to crowd-surf on inl atable paddling pools. They’re once- seen, never forgotten.
facebook.com/ colonelmustard andthedijon5
NEW MUSIC TO KEEP AN EAR OUT FOR 122 THE LIST 1 Sep–31 Oct 2018