Swamptrash
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Swamptrash were a Scottish bluegrass/psychobilly band formed in 1987 in Edinburgh. They split in 1989 and several of the members went on to form Shooglenifty.[1] The band has been recognized as crucial to the development of experimental Scottish acoustic music.[2]
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they really were a ramshackle and thoroughly enjoyable faux-punk string/bluegrass band who attacked new and old tunes with the verve and self-evident pleasure others heard in the Pogues
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Personnel
Members have included:
- Harry Horse - Vocals, banjo (later played in Hexology and worked as a children's author, political illustrator/cartoonist for The Scotsman and The Herald newspapers, and developer of the video game Drowned God)
- Neil McArthur - fiddle
- James MacIntosh - drums (now playing with Capercaillie, Shooglenifty and Michael McGoldrick amongst others)
- Garry "Banjo" Finlayson - banjo (now playing in Shooglenifty)
- Malcolm Crosbie - guitar (now playing in Shooglenifty)
- Nick Prescott - mandolin
- Conrad Molleson - bass (later played in Shooglenifty, now playing with Catriona MacDonald amongst others)
- Angus R. Grant - fiddle (later in Shooglenifty, now deceased[4])
Discography
- It Makes No Never Mind - DDT Records (1987 album)
- Bone (6 track EP recorded as a session for Janice Long on BBC Radio 1)
References
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