https://dianaschad.com/music :  By day Diana is a Marie Curie palliative care nurse & over the last 20 years has been playing her own piano-based originals and a wide range of covers here in Glasgow. You can follow her on twitter @lulladi or find her at her facebook page, Diana Schad Music.  She has been involved with Pulse fm radio since 2010. Since March 2014 she hosted the weekly late night Night Nurse show until February 2019 . These were recorded as she had guests on live in session most weeks and are available online. They are simple, archived recordings of her conversations with the artists and music, with no personal financial gain. She sat in for Iain Anderson on BBC Radio Scotland 2015-2017. Attends various open mics in the city. Hosted house concerts and Sunny Corner Sessions at home (pre covid) for local musicians. These have started back up (October 2023). Please get in touch if you would like to join!

acoustic troubadour of note, somewhere in a field near you.

Joe Kane of Dr Cosmo's Tape Lab, The Owsley Sunshine, Them Beatles and Onlyjoekane.

Making music described as “glitter bursting from every chorus” and combining “the ominous glimmer of synth-wave with the maximalist fun of Carly Rae Jepsen’s ’80s throwbacks”, Carla J Easton is a pop songwriter with a back catalogue that would make most people envious.

From the Myspace-occupying Futuristic Retro Champions, through scrappy pop upstarts TeenCanteen and a record under the name ETTE, to the  the solo albums Impossible Stuff (shortlisted for the 2019 SAY Award and produced by Arcade Fire cohort Howard Bilerman) and WEIRDO , Carla J Easton writes essential indie pop. 

Sitting proudly alongside The Vaselines (who she plays keys for on tour), BMX Bandits (who have covered her songs) and Belle and Sebastian, with whom she co-wrote the track “Best Friend” she is considered alongside the best Scottish music  has had to offer over the past few decades.

WEIRDO is a record that Bandcamp  described as “all volume needles buried in the red, glitter bursting from every chorus.” The Line of Best Fit praised its “maximalist” tendencies while hinting that Scotland has found its own answer to the pop titans Carly Rae Jepsen and Taylor Swift and Pitchfork called it “bubblegum pop [with] the scrappy glamour of a homemade theatrical production”. Finding her voice, Carla J Easton is in the position now where she is consistently releasing music that’s talked about in terms of albums of the year garlands in Scotland, and beyond.

-Andrew Hannah, Bright Dead Things 2020

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The Martial Arts are releasing their new album ‘In There Like Swimwear’, on Friday 9 August 2024, on the Where It’s At Is Where You Are label.  It contains the singles, ‘No Victory’, ‘Not Coming Down’, ‘Exploding Crushing Inevitable’ and ‘Friends For Fools’.

The album links the neighboring worlds of power pop / indie pop / classic pop, and would sit comfortably in the collections of Daniel Johnston, XTC, Eno, Of Montreal, The Lemon Twigs or The Apples In Stereo fans.

The Martial Arts is Paul Kelly, who for over 15 years has been a mainstay of the Scottish music scene.   He was a full-time member of BMX Bandits for five years and is a long-time collaborator and bandmate of the SAY Award-nominated artist Carla J Easton (The Vaselines / Poster Paints / TeenCanteen).  He has performed with Raveloe, TeenCanteen, Kim Richey, The Primary 5, Dr. Cosmo’s Tape Lab, How to Swim and The Hector Collectors.  He has been using the name The Martial Arts since 2003.

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