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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Rose McDowall – Extended Interview
Rose McDowall – Interview Part 1 Photo (c) Innes Reekie This very insightful interview from Rose was conducted in 2016 for Teenage Superstars and The Glasgow School. It’s not the full interview so some of the questions and answers… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
Christmas Fast Forward – Early Rough Cut
We thought we’d share with you an early rough cut of our Teenage Superstars companion film, Fast Forward. We do have a more refined cut with extra interviews (and more to come) but as we are currently… Read More ›
Hilary Morrison Interview
Hilary Morrison is the co-founder of Fast Product. This is an excerpt from one of two interviews we did with her for the film Big Gold Dream. GM- We’re starting the film in the years immediately prior to Never… Read More ›
Port Sulphur – Q+A With Douglas MacIntyre
Masterminded by Creeping Bent boss Douglas MacIntyre, Port Sulphur’s debut album, Paranoic Critical is released on the 6th June. It would be slightly biased to review this as it features around a third of the cast of Big Gold Dream,… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
Accessory 2: Michael Barclay and Frank Hannaway
From the Big Gold Dream archives. Michael Barclay and Bob Last discuss the Pop:Aural off-shoot – Accessory. Accessory 2: Frank Hannaway and Michael Barclay: At Home Michael Barclay: That was one of Bob Last’s conceptual pieces. I… Read More ›
