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Artist: Scocha
Website: www.scocha.com and www.myspace.com/scochacom
Track Name: McPherson’s Farewell (video below)
Playback: flash
Download?: No

There I was minding my own business when Thatch said, “here, have a listen to this lot, you’ll like them”. So I did and yep, he was right. “Traditional Scottish music with attitude” – not so much of the traditional in evidence without a bit of digging, but heaps of attitude. In fact even the band website states, “Traditional Scottish and Celtic music and song with a Rock n Roll attitude.”

So Scocha from the Borders in Scotland are to my mind Rock n Roll wi’ a traditional feel if you only go by the songs on MySpace. Not that there is anything wrong with that, mind. Not at all, some of my favourite bands play music of a similar nature but if you go to the shop on Scocha.com you will in fact find brief snippets of some traditional songs, testament to a more traditional repertoire.

Scocha are another band full of multi-instrumentalists and vocalists but it is the vocals that are most memorable. Iain Scott on vocals, guitar, bouzouki, bodhran, whistles, David Chapman on vocals, guitar, bodhran, Phil Clayton on vocals, bass, guitar, Alan Brydon on vocals, guitars, pipes, whistles, bodhran, harmonica, piano and newest member Dougie “Animal” Anderson on drums, guitar and harmonica.

Here is a video version of their Rolling Hills of the Borders

jools is a graphic designer who used to front a band on vocals and bass. All evidence of which have mercifully been obliterated or otherwise lost.
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