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BIG GOLD DREAM – Pick of the Week – The Herald – 9th April 2019
https://www.thenational.scot/news/17552076.dont-forget-driver-big-gold-dream—tv-picks-week/ (c) Damian Love / The Herald Saturday night is when TV stations have a nice rest from trying to come up with anything anyone might want to watch – like most other nights, only more blatantly. On the plus… Read More ›
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BIG GOLD DREAM in ‘The National’ – 2nd April 2015
https://www.thenational.scot/news/14849072.post-punk-postcards-from-indie-pendent-scotland-documentary-charts-an-era-that-changed-music/ “Post-punk postcards from indie-pendent Scotland: Documentary charts an era that changed music” (c) The NATIONAL…EXCERPT BELOW: AN AMBITIOUS feature-length documentary is about to lay bare the rise of Scotland’s post-punk/indie music scene. The Sound Of Young Scotland will debut… Read More ›
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FAST : EarCom 3 – The Stupid Babies – 5 Year Old Punks and Adamski
FAST 9C – The Stupid Babies Continuing to explore the records not covered in Big Gold Dream – and as part of a new project I spoke to Adam Tinley about his Fast contribution – The Stupid Babies on Earcom… Read More ›
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Sandy McLean on the origins of 53rd and 3rd, Fast Forward and The Cartel.
Sandy McLean on the origins of 53rd and 3rd, The Cartel and how Fast Product became Fast Forward…. ………………….. Sandy: Ok, well, it was called Fast Product when I joined in ’82, the name Fast Product hadn’t been used on… Read More ›
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The Motorcycle Boy Reigns
Back in 2017 we spoke to Michael Kerr from Meat Whiplash, The Motorcycle Boy and Jesse Garon. Now that Scarlet, the long lost Motorcycle Boy album has finally been released it seems a timely opportunity to revisit some of what… Read More ›
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Big Gold Dreams Box Set Essay
From the Cherry Red Big Gold Dreams Box Set “We were like explorers.” That was the succinct phrase used by Bob Last when describing to me his nascent adventure running Fast Product. The word ‘explore’ is synonymous with… Read More ›
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The Velvet Underground in Edinburgh: Roy Møller
In 1993 it had been 25 years since John Cale last played with The Velvet Underground, except for a one-off encore of Heroin sometime during 1990. Brian Eno famously said that everyone who bought the Banana album went out and… Read More ›
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Never Been in a Riot – Fast and Mekons at 40 (2/2)
Mekons at 40, Fast Product at 40. The recording of FAST1 – Mekons ‘Never Been in a Riot’ The Players: Mark White – The Mekons original singer. Jon Langford – The Mekons original drummer, now guitarist and singer Bob Last – Fast… Read More ›
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Fast Product and The Mekons at 40 (1/2)
This originally appeared in The Borders Telegraph, 18/01/2018 Where Were You? 40 years ago this month a group of wayward youths broke into a quiet Galashiels cottage. In the 1970s there was nothing unusual about housebreaking sadly – unemployment… Read More ›
The Sound of Young Scotland Project 