Swamptrash
{{Short description|Scottish band}}
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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.[https://www.nme.com/artists/swamptrash ]{{dead link|date=October 2016}} The band has been recognized as crucial to the development of experimental Scottish acoustic music.{{Cite web|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12773079.Harry_Horse/|title=Harry Horse|website=The Herald|location=Glasgow|access-date=2016-10-31|archive-date=31 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161031212329/http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12773079.Harry_Horse/|url-status=live}}
{{cquote|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|||Grant Alden, 27 March 2007{{cite web |url=http://www.nodepression.net/blogs/grant/2007/03/swamptrash_an_homage_to_harry.html |title=Grant's Rants |access-date=2008-12-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070504223635/http://www.nodepression.net/blogs/grant/2007/03/swamptrash_an_homage_to_harry.html |archive-date=4 May 2007 }}}}
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{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-37610327 |title=Tributes paid to Shooglenifty's Angus R Grant |access-date=21 June 2018 |archive-date=17 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190117071235/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-37610327 |url-status=live }})
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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External links
- {{cite web|url=http://www.myspace.com/swamptrashtheband |title=Swamptrash | Listen and Stream Free Music, Albums, New Releases, Photos, Videos |website=Myspace.com |accessdate=2016-10-11}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.lazypict.thehighlands.co.uk/acidcroft/acidcrofthistory.htm |title=Acid Croft History : Swamptrash |website=Lazypict.thehighlands.co.uk |accessdate=2016-10-11}}
Category:Scottish alternative rock groups
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