Jamboy81 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Ireland have had Snow Patrol, The Script, Thin Lizzy and Westlife. In Wales I can think of Stereophonics and The Manic Street Preachers. We've had Deacon Blue, Franz Ferdinand, Texas and a few more but nobody new for a while, We're probably due someone to hit the big time, would be nice if they were from Edinburgh. I reckon Twin Atlantic are pretty good not aware of many more though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gershwin Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Ireland have had Snow Patrol, The Script, Thin Lizzy and Westlife. In Wales I can think of Stereophonics and The Manic Street Preachers. We've had Deacon Blue, Franz Ferdinand, Texas and a few more but nobody new for a while, We're probably due someone to hit the big time, would be nice if they were from Edinburgh. I reckon Twin Atlantic are pretty good not aware of many more though. Scotland has a tremendous music scene at the moment. Check out the last few years of the Scottish Album Of The Year Award for proof. Not sure I'd be using a band like The Script as a yardstick though. Horrible MOR pish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 The MacDonald Brothers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey J J Jr Shabadoo Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Scotland has a tremendous music scene at the moment. Check out the last few years of the Scottish Album Of The Year Award for proof. Not sure I'd be using a band like The Script as a yardstick though. Horrible MOR pish. Westlife are shit, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunny Munro Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Biffy Clyro went massive a few years ago. Headlining festivals and the like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cigaro Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Twin Atlantic are horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_R Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Biffy Clyro went massive a few years ago. Headlining festivals and the like. And idlewild were pretty big for a while. The scottish music scene is great. it doesnt bother me if a band gets 'big'. it was better when i could go see biffy at the liquid rooms for a fiver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_R Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Twin Atlantic are horrible. this as well. pretty dire stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_R Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Ireland have had Snow Patrol, The Script, Thin Lizzy and Westlife. In Wales I can think of Stereophonics and The Manic Street Preachers. We've had Deacon Blue, Franz Ferdinand, Texas and a few more but nobody new for a while, We're probably due someone to hit the big time, would be nice if they were from Edinburgh. I reckon Twin Atlantic are pretty good not aware of many more though. as well as a couple of pretty obvious ones over last decade (idlewild, biffy) its safe to say Calvin Harris is absolutely massive now. if you are looking for a 'new' band to check out though. get Carnivores album 'lets get metaphysical'. they are from paisley. I dont necessarily think they'll make it 'big' in relation to the other names you have mentioned but they are excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All roads lead to Gorgie Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 I still hope Frightened Rabbit can do an Elbow and become really big. If Mumford and Son can make it in a folk rock way surely there's a place for what FR do on the big stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locky Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 as well as a couple of pretty obvious ones over last decade (idlewild, biffy) its safe to say Calvin Harris is absolutely massive now. if you are looking for a 'new' band to check out though. get Carnivores album 'lets get metaphysical'. they are from paisley. I dont necessarily think they'll make it 'big' in relation to the other names you have mentioned but they are excellent. I really liked Idlewild, remember they had a song on FIFA 2003 which I think done well but they didn't do much after. I seen them doing some free gig down at the Parliament c. 2007/2008 and they were pretty good. I liked a lot of Calvin Harris' stuff when he first broke through around 2006 and some of his stuff after when he first made it big was still decent. Harsh reality is now though, his music if guff. Mainstream, americanised guff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWL Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Paper Lace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2NaFish Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 With the sort of music you seem to need to produce to be as big as most of the bands in the OP, i can't see why anyone would want to be big, unless they just wanted to be big for the sake of being big, BIG, BIG, BIG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Pupkin Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Son's and Daughters should be more popular than they are, imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2NaFish Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Son's and Daughters should be more popular than they are, imo. I don't think you'll see them doing anything any time soon. Unless it's just Adele and a new band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WSTR Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 The Proclaimers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bozi Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Wales have actually produced a few excellent bands over the years too like the Super Furries But dear God Franz Ferdinand and Texas are both chronic and the less said about Twin Atlantic the better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tian447 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Probably someone we've never heard of before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chester copperpot Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Glasvegas are in my top 5 favourite bands of all time and I'm glad they haven't went bigger. Not everyone's cup of tea but couldn't give 2 hoots as I think they're brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotland Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Chvrches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Holy Mountain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolkeith Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Young Fathers are doing well for themselves at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Canada Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Birdhead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
He Who Cannot Be Named Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 THE MURDERBURGERS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor FinnBarr Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Wales have actually produced a few excellent bands over the years too like the Super Furries But dear God Franz Ferdinand and Texas are both chronic and the less said about Twin Atlantic the better. Texas were good in their early days (late 80s) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah O Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 frightened rabbit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2NaFish Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 White on Vic Galloway last night were just lovely. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05s7f58 Jambo lead singer too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRUCEM63 Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Paolo's doing quite well at the moment..... Some decent stuff on his last album Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RudiHMFC Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Twin Atlantic are pish, one of their songs was on radio 1 about 20 mins ago, embarrassingly bad hahaha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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