Welcoming one to look from the outside

Hi and welcome to my first blog this is called From the Outside Looking In. I've been listening to the Fratellis; The View; Paolo Nutini basically mainstream Scottish music for years but it wasn’t till the beginning of 2009 where I started hearing more and more about the Scottish Music Scene. I started hearing noises about one lad from Glasgow, Tommy Reilly who had won the Orange Unsigned Act beating off another Glasgow act Hip Parade.

Tommy’s cover of Mr Brightside made the hairs stand up on the back my neck and I thought I must look into him some more. I found his songs Gimme A Call and I don’t Like Coffee and within minutes new I was going to really like his music. For me it was the words in the songs he writes so easy to relate from I personal point of view.

I continued to listen to him and found more and more bands and artists mainly Scottish which I just couldn’t get enough of. Frightened Rabbit were the next band I found through Tommy and that what was where my fascination with all things Scottish began. I eventually found podcasts by Vic Galloway BBC radio Scotland DJ and champion all things unsigned. I was hearing of more and more bands and artists weekly I found myself on Myspace looking up more and more bands everyday. I found Jim Gellatly’s New music podcast on Radio Magnetic, I was chuffed to have found some more music and free I might add to listen to. Wednesday’s would come and I would have my new batch of music to listen to on the train to work. I loved it.

Step forward about a month later and after hearing Jim mention the Glasgow PodcART I had to get some of that I thought. I downloaded the latest episode and listened to it on the train in a similar fashion as I did with Jim’s. This one was brilliant, I described it as “piss your pants funny” on twitter the other day which it simply is. It should really come with a health warning. The mixture of new music and Glaswegian banter between Sean, Ally and Halina is too much to handle on a train journey to work every morning, the funny looks one gets from commuters is brilliant.

Now I’ve explained my liking for the Scottish Music Scene your probably wondering why I am writing this. Well after hearing all these podcasts and hearing all this great music I have decided that I fancy having a slice of the cake and telling everybody what I like! And the fact I’ve always wanted to be in the band.

So every Friday or Monday I haven’t decided yet my week’s worth of music will be told to you readers if there are any and you can have a listen for yourself.

Anyway cheers for the read

Ben

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