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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 