© HINTERLAND FESTIVAL 2008 – SITE BY SHELLEY HANNAN
The Ray Summers are a band who create psychedelic, catchy and up beat songs. Lyrics
that relate to daily experiences in their lives and a recognisable kaleidoscopic
keyboard combined with melodic guitars. They take you back to a time that makes you
want to bathe in memories of the love generation. more>>>
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With press accolades referencing Elsie as a female version of Tinderstick's frontman
Stuart Staples, nods to Nick Cave, the Velvet Underground, the Shoegaze genre and
even mention of PHANTOM'S music fitting a David Lynch film soundtrack, it has been
a difficult task to describe the PHANTOM sound more>>>
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In 2009 Elks continue to introduce more people to their own brand of melodramatic
song. With gentle giant guitars, Bonham-
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Formed in the autumn of 2007, the three young men of 85 Bears have been busy experimenting
in the railway arches of East London. An instrumental band creating songs hanging
tentatively on delicately looped guitar riffs, thundering bass lines, and breathtaking
drum patterns. Inhale and the heart stops as the music feigns fragility, exhale and
the sky come crashing down around you. more>>>
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Desalvo make hard, visceral and genuinely perverse music. Their shows are something
to behold and have been flying the flag for the true believers in loud, heavy, alternative
music for a number of years now. Never afraid to speak the truth, shock and dismember,
p6, chatted to us about their label, Rock Action, the wave of heavier bands hitting
the Glasgow music scene and their plans to gatecrash the Cambridge folk festival!
more>>>
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Fangs strut, shout, sing, and riff their way through the red lights of new wave and
disco…Bringing their Boombox of Blood back to GLASGOW after gigs with Justice, Santogold,
Presets, Black Kids & Sons & Daughters plus Reading & Leeds festival & T in the Park.
Along with their infamous appearances on T4, 2008 was non-
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The Covergirls are an alternative, arty pop group from Glasgow who have had a stop-
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De Rosa are our first band in this new section in which we talk to bands you may
not have yet heard of but will soon. According to them, they are “...a wee band called
De Rosa. We come mostly from Bellshill or thereabouts, but don’t really live there
anymore. There’s 5 of us now. One of us is really tall. He's not from Bellshill
though and probably breathed in better air growing up. more>>>
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