declan welsh

Parisian Friends

Produced by Leaf Dog (Silent Flight Instrumental - Four Owls)

Whoever - Slam Samuels (prod. Leaf Dog)

Dedicated to GG Brothers
Original beat: 'MF Borat - So Good To Me'
- samples 'Make the Road by Walking - The Menahan Street Band'

Also sampled: 
Blootered Glaswegians
The Medium Was Tedium - Desperate Bicycles

Abbey Problems - Slam Samuels (prod. DigDug)

Skyscraper Skyline Blues, lifted from Milk! Records compilation album Good For You, see's Fraser A. Gorman team up with Ella Thompson (Dorsal Fins) to deliver a slice of laid back pop perfection. Released in February 2016. Buy now on limited green apple vinyl https://milk-records.myshopify.com/collections/milk-records/products/milk-records-good-for-you-compilation

Fraser A. Gorman - Skyscraper Skyline Blues

So Far Away

After creating a stir in 2015 with a bold and noisy surf-rock sound showcased on the EP Laguna Babe, The Van T’s have made a swift return with their follow up EP A Coming of Age.

Having begun writing songs at just seventeen years old, twin sisters Hannah (guitar, vocals) and Chloe Van Thompson (guitar, vocals) decided to start a band shortly after. Initially playing shows in and around Scotland as a duo, the twins recruited Joanne Forbes (bass) and Shaun Hood (drums) in an attempt to add more layers to an already impressive sound. As a result The Van T’s were born, complete with a sunny 50’s jukebox style sound and a twist of cathartic 90’s grunge thrown in for good measure, captivating both fans and music aficionados alike.

Taking inspiration from band’s such as the B52’s, Veruca Salt, Smashing Pumpkins and Le Butcherettes, The Van T’s have created a contemporary, scuzz-filled record that also has an endearing raw quality pouring out from every note. Lead single ‘Blood Orange’ encapsulates the bands characteristics perfectly as electrifying guitar howls and echoes from the speakers, bridged beautifully by the twin sisters duel vocals, all neatly harnessed by the simple yet effective interplay between drums and bass. 

Despite the band being in its infancy, The Van T’s have already appeared at T in the Park, Wickerman, Electric Fields, Tenement Trail and Strange Behaviours as well as supporting Catholic Action and Honeyblood. This has seen them pick up support from Clash, The Scotsman, Beat Surrender, Backseat Mafia, BBC Radio Scotland, Amazing Radio and XFM Scotland. 2016 looks like it will be another hectic year for The Van T’s with appearances scheduled at Wide Days, Stag & Dagger and Brew at the Bog, a support slot with HAWK in London and culminating with two dates supporting the mighty Yuck.

A Coming of Age by The Van T’s is released on 10th June 2016 via Bloc+Music.

35mm

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChSwNtY-gbI

6th Aug - Belladrum Festival, Inverness
26th Aug - Electric Fields, Dumfries
31st Aug - O2 ABC, Glasgow w/Jesus & Mary Chain
10th Sept - Teviot Underground, Edinburgh
16th Sept - Barrowlands, Glasgow w/The View

Grab Life By

JAH (Shouldnt've)

'Our view of the world is increasingly skewed by outside forces, by what information we consume and what bubbles we exist in. Mirrors is a reflection of this, a snapshot of paranoia and disassociation. It is the suicide note of a man driven mad by watching the world burn, and not knowing who lit the fire, or why. Driven by a pounding bass riff, the reverb laden guitars spiral the song to a tension which reflects the feeling of being watched, trapped and helpless. "The hollow myth of choice, that says you have a voice, but no one's listening...' - Declan Welsh

Mirrors

To Be A Man

Useless

Recorded live at The Hug and Pint, Glasgow

I want your features 
And your statue stare 
I want you presence 
And your top tail hair 

I want a mug shot
 in the shape of you 
Give me a room but not with a view 

I want a photograph 
Of billy blue jean 
I want it all
Every bit that I see 

I want a mugshot 
In the shape of you 
Give me a room but not with a view 

I don't care about this stone cold city
I want your mother and i want her pretty

I want you ugly, i want you in debt
I want you to want to, to want to forget
I want you early, i want you late
I want your indifference, and i want your hate

I want your fire to burn me to dust
I want you to tell me youve got me sussed
I want your friction i want your sin
I want your teeth marks under my skin

I dont care about this stone cold city
I want your father and i want him pretty 

Wanting is yearning is needing is bleeding
Would you bleed if i ask? Id never ask
But if you would task me, to open wounds, id oblige in ways i cant describe with words
Here in verse, im trapped by romantic cliches, each says, something i dont need it to say, there must be a way, but with each passing day, it seems less likely to me, that the way i burn will ever be better described than by the flame that sucks oxygen from lungs, and makes tongues touch tongues, if we could only be so young, as young as i want us to be

I don't care about this stone cold city
I want your mother and i want her pretty

Mirrors

Declan Welsh & The Decadent West

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