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DeMoTion - work in progress.

Having spent a really successful live summer, we are experimenting with putting stuff down on the digital. These are the early results......

Rust - Words and Music : Eggo

This is the first Eggo song we have stuck up, it sort of catches me on the wrong side, this impossibly jaunty tune talking about being trapped in an idylic rural hell

The countryside is a great place to bring up kids if you are a parent, as a teenager it's duller than mince

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Hey You -Words and Music: Jim Tollan

The thing I find about Jim's songs, is that they are not much about him and in fact more about me, having just come out of the other side of a really painful stupid divorce (Jim and Shameen - and you will be hearing from her soon, as she has just joined the band on fiddle - are well happy). I find myself singing this song directly at the Ex.

It reminds me of my favourite fridge magnet.

I still miss my ex-wife!

But my aim is improving.

The other thing to deal with here is the key, Jim writes right on the edge of my range, I would not do this to myself, staying within my comfort zone, Jim on the other hand couldn't give a stuff about my comfort zone and so ends up pushing me, which after the first few painful tries, becomes a good thing.

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FIRE

Fire proved to be a technical problem, but now we have version 7. Jim's come up with these spacy keyboard parts that sort of glide round each other and at times it feels like they are going to fall off but they don't, and they end up holding the centre of the dream, i know he's still playing about with it and continuing to work on the mix down, and will be posting new ones as they appear. we like the idea of this song in development and feel myspace is exactly the forum to do it in. we hope you agree.

The Photo was nicked from Lara, who takes photos for a living

She told me

I also thought you might be interested in knowing what it's a picture of...

I grew up on fishing boats in Alaska. A dear friend and former lover of mine died two years ago, along with 4 other members of his crew, when his crab boat sank in the Bering Sea near the Pribilof islands. A couple of weeks after it happened, many of us gathered at his beautiful home in Kodiak and had a tremendous bonfire in his back yard. There was ice covering everything, frozen mud, frozen grasses... The fire raged two storeys high, and people played mad cathartic reels on fiddles and beat on buckets for drums. I spun fire chains, slipping in the frost, full of drunkenness and anger and mourning and joy. The photo is from the tip of the flames. - Lara

Fire is all about passion We nicked the photo before we knew this story, but now we know, we know we nicked the right one

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Actual Biog:

Returning from Europe last September

Iain Tunesmith - (The RipCords - Dead Like Sweep - Edinburgh Songwriters Showcase (not a band but a happening) - Disagreeable Bathroom Decor)

- began feeling his way into the Galloway Folk scene. Various shows later and through his pal, Susi Woodmass, Iain was booked to play the Tryst O Gall festival in Ae Forest Dumfriesshire.

Not wanting to play with himself, he quickly got on the phone to some lads he had met round the scene.

Eggo the Bass (Fat Freddy's Cat - Papa Rock - The Wah State - Out Of Order - The Mellow Yellow Sunshine Band)

and

Jim Guitar Tollan (list being populated).

To these fine upstanding pillars of the bar, he said, "We have been booked to play the Tryst 'O' Gall Festival and we are going to get paid - do you want to form a band?" Omitting to tell them that getting paid was fifty quid between the three of them and wouldn't cover the drinks tab.

Despite all this shinannery, pretty much from that moment KillinFolk were born with a commitment - forged in the spirit fires of Skyreburn - to take the piss out of anything they can, especially themselves. This is not a comedy band, this is a serious mission. Six weeks from then, they played their first gig on the acoustic stage of Tryst 'O' Gall, immediately being booked to play the main stage the next day.

Since, they have taken their music in various formats to Barn Ceilidh, The Wickerman,

The Big Green Gathering, Knockengorroch and most important, The Crown Pub, Kirkpatrick Durham - The House of Good Spirits.

Further gigs will, unsurprisingly, be put in the upcoming gigs section.

A Treat - No Really (well, not for Sheryl Crow fans) - Go On