Duglas T Stewart
Rachel Allison
David Scott
Jim McCulloch
Finlay Macdonald
Jim Gash
Influences
Serge Gainsbourg, Daniel Johnston, Ennio Morricone, Sesame Street songs (by Joe Raposo, Jeff Moss, etc.), The Shangri-las, Moondog, The Zombies, Goffin & King, Brian Wilson & The Beach Boys, Kraftwerk, The Sherman Brothers, Todd Rundgren, Michel Legrand, Lou Christie, Jonathan Richman, Rod McKuen, Lee Hazlewood/Nancy & Lee, The Cookies, Tropicalia (Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Os Mutantes), Ivor Cutler, The Ramones, The Beatles, Harpers Bizarre, Nikasoup & Sayasource, Sly & the Family Stone, Suicide, Bacharach & David, Phil Spector, Joe Meek, Roger Nichols & the Small Circle of Friends, Paul Williams, Nick DeCaro, Margo Guryan, Astrud Gilberto, Kate Bush, Chet Baker (especially when singing), Kim Fowley, Bernard Herrmann, Daft Punk, Stereo Total, Rogers & Hart, Rogers & Hammerstein, Momus, Vashti Bunyan, Krzysztof Komeda, Antonio Carlos Jobim, George & Ira Gershwin, Van Dyke Parks, John Barry, Laura Nyro, The Tammys, The BeeGees, Judee Sill, Evie Sands, Greenwich & Barry, The Specials, E.L.O., The Velvet Underground, Television Personalities, The Wombles, Orange Juice, Twinkle, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Everly Brothers, Tommy Roe, Bobbie Gentry, Blossom Dearie, Bo Diddley & the Duchess, The Cramps, Sparks, Giorgio Moroder, Beat Happening, Swell Maps, Throbbing Gristle, Gwen Stefani, Sagittarius & the Millenium (Curt & Sandy, etc.), Valerie & her Week of Wonders o.s.t., Erik Satie, Raymond Scott, Jerome Kern, The Pastels, Picketty Witch, Scritti Politti, Peter Skellern, Hank Williams snr, Jimmy Durante, Jacques Brel, The Go-Betweens, Stevie Wonder, Amy Allison, Chip Taylor, Diana Ross, Willie Nelson, Virginia Astley, Tom Waits, Robert Wyatt, Chic, Cole Porter ... lots of other stuff.
Sounds Like
I Wanna Fall in Love (video by Chop Pop)
I'm Still Hungry, the dance craze
You Don't Want To Be My Girlfriend, Phoebe
After I Made Love To You in Glasgow, 2009
Witchi Tai To in East Kilbride, 2006
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SOME QUOTES ABOUT BMX BANDITS: "The sobriquet "purveyors of perfect pop" might get thrown around like confetti - and too often with little justice - but surely it was dreamed up in response to fragile, even childlike, songs of Duglas T Stewart and BMX Bandits" - Record Collector
"Gentle genius".- Q magazine.
"The Bandits have been a Scottish jangle-pop institution practically since the dawn of time, with Kurt Cobain famously being in awe of their tunesmithery. Fifteen (15!) albums down the line and they can still write the melodies"- N.M.E.
"One of Britain's best-kept secrets... some of the most sumptuous, emotionally devastating pop songs never to grace the top 40... a dream marriage of Brian Wilson and Michel Legrand's Umbrellas of Cherbourg" - The Daily Telegraph.
"Lush and knowing" - The Sunday Herald
"As pure pop music goes it's pretty much unbeatable because there's so much heart and soul tied up in the realisation. These re-fashioned Bandits mean business." - The Next Big Thing
"Beautifully crafted... sad but wryly upbeat honesty" - Record Collector.
"BMX Bandits are like the X-men of Scottish guitar-pop ... musical super heroes with band chief Duglas T Stewart as their Professor X"- SLAM magazine
"After 20 years of heartache, melody and romance, it’s high time the Bandits were recognised as the classic pop band they are." - The Beard
"Sounding this glorious 21 years into your career is no mean feat. Pop newbies take note" - The List.
"It is a blessing that such a curious and fragile pop oddity can exist in this blustery and busy modern world. Great songs"- N.M.E.
"Stewart's eccentricity, and his lasting, wide-eyed joy at guitar pop's power in its simplest and most upbeat of forms is charmingly honest and not to be scoffed at"- The Scotsman
The band's ever morphing line up has, for more than 2 decades now, revolved around head Bandit and composer Duglas T Stewart. BMX Bandits released their first single E102 in 1986 and in 2007 they released their 15th album BEE STINGS. Ex-Bandits include members of the following bands past and present: Teenage Fanclub, The Vaselines, Music & Movement, Future Pilot AKA, The Soup Dragons, Nice Man & the Bad Boys, National Park, Belle & Sebastian, The Primary 5, Eugenius, Superstar, Snowgoose, St. Deluxe, The Green Peppers and a few others.
BMX Bandits most popular songs include Serious Drugs, I Wanna Fall in Love, Little Hands, Doorways, Disco Girl and E102.
THE 16th BMX ALBUM 'BEE STINGS' WAS RELEASED MAY 2007 IN JAPAN ON P VINE, SEPTEMBER 2007, IN SOUTH KOREA ON BEATBALL, IN THE PHILIPPINES ON UNIVERSAL RECORDS AND IN EUROPE ON POPPYDISC, OCTOBER 2007. 'THE BMX LOVE e.p.' WAS RELEASED ON ELEFANT RECORDS EARLY 2009. 'THE RISE AND FALL OF BMX BANDITS', A NEW RETROSPECTIVE COMPILATION OUT IN AUGUST ALL ACROSS EUROPE ON ELEFANT RECORDS, OUT NOW IN JAPAN (STARSIGN) AND SOUTH KOREA (BEATBALL).
ITS MARY! THANKS SO MUCH FOR SUPPORTING OUR MOVEMENT!
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HAAALLL0000!,Hi outthere! Here comes a brand new Live Video by NACHLADER (title:SOLL/HABEN) - Live in Berlin - Maria / OstBHF 09 09 16 - What do you think? Feel free to leave a comment. DANKE!
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BMX Bandits, is a great honor has you in our
page. Here is our brasilian's good vibrations sounds:
“O Maquinista do Tempo”:
Here is one bossa-nova made by us
called "Um bilhete pra Moraes", a tribute to Moraes Moreira and Novos
Baianos, brasilian group from 70's, great friends of João Gilberto,Bebel
Gilberto e Tom Zé:
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