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Jihae Simmons Meek met her husband to be and Neverever bandmate, Bricolage’s Wallace Meek, during her stint seeing that the business lead singer for the Glasgow-based indie pop group the Royal We. Following Royal We’s break up in 2007, the few relocated to Jihae’s hometown of LA, CA, where they …

Jihae Simmons Meek met her husband to be and Neverever bandmate, Bricolage’s Wallace Meek, during her stint while the business lead singer for the Glasgow-based indie pop group the Royal We. Following a Royal We’s separation in 2007, the few relocated to Jihae’s hometown of LA, CA, where they teamed …

Made up of Patrick, Roxanne, Graeme, and Andy Friendly (all previous associates of likeminded indie pop teams Bricolage, the Royal We, and Dot to Dot), Glasgow’s Sexy Children developed a luminous twee sound that nodded to seminal indie pop outfits like Talulah Gosh and Dolly Mixture. The band’s debut 7″ …

Glasgow post-punk revivalists Bricolage shaped in 2005 and started using pop music heavily influenced with the Postcard sound, particularly that of Orange Juice, as well as the razor-sharp experience of Vic Godard & the Subway Sect. Made up of Graham Wann and Wallace Meek on electric guitar and vocals, Darren …

U.K. indie collective Bearsuit combine punk, disco, and pop into an infectious and dynamic art rock and roll stew filled with outlandish stage equipment. Created in 2001, the group includes Cerian Hamer (violin/cornet/percussion), Lisa Horton (vocals/keyboards/accordion/percussion), Matt Hutchings (drums/percussion), Matthew Moss (bass), Jan Robertson (flute/acoustic guitar/percussion), and Iain Ross (vocals/electric …

The Scottish indie pop group The Royal We started when singer Jihae Simmons and lead guitarist Roxanne Clifford first considered the band name and made a decision to form an organization around it in 2005. Adding second guitarist Patrick Doyle, violinist Joan Sweeney, multi-instrumentalist Graeme Ronald (who’s also a part-time …

Writing tunes that discuss more in keeping using the raw, immediate delivery of pub rock and roll compared to the disjointed, angular designs from the post-punk trend, Danny Saunders was noticed singing acoustic tunes in Glasgow pubs by fellow guitarist Richard Wright. Both became a member of up and documented …

The Australian indie pop ensemble Architecture in Helsinki hail from Fitzroy, Melbourne, and also have counted multi-instrumentalists Cameron Parrot, Wayne Cecil, Gus Franklin, Isobel Knowles, Jamie Mildren, Sam Perry, Tara Shackell, and Kellie Sutherland amongst their ranks. The band’s musical arsenal can be a great deal larger than its roster, …

Celebrating a bratty, tongue-in-cheek viewpoint along with a spunky indie punk design much like Art Brut, while applying a variety of instruments comparable to Architecture in Helsinki, the seven-piece group Los Campesinos! (a Spanish name that approximately means “the Peasants”) shaped in 2006 in Cardiff, Wales. The lineup got form …

Glasgow rock and roll & move trio 1990s shaped from your remnants from the Yummy Hair, which had briefly included Paul Thomson of Franz Ferdinand. Following the Yummy Hair known as it quits in 1999, guitarist/vocalist Jackie McKeown and bassist Jamie McMorrow regrouped a couple of years later on with …