Laugh Like Pa got together in the last few years of their high school, and started as a 3 piece, mostly playing covers. Gus Lambie was on drums, Owen McLauchlan played guitar and Huw Streater played bass and sung lead vocals. They soon aquired a lead singer, and another guitarist, Andy MacKinnon. The band practised regularly in a room in Owen's house, and played loads of gigs, some in school, but also rocked many venues around West Lothian! The lead singer soon parted from the band, as he wanted to pursue an acting career, and Laugh Like Pa played for the best part of a year as a four piece, with Andy and Huw singing. Then late in 2005 the band decided they needed a full time lead singer, and Simon Jones, a friend of the band since he came to Scotland from Johannesburg early 2005, asked if he could give it a shot. He came and "auditioned" and was really good, and the guys offered him a place, which he happily accepted. Owen also switched to playing keyboards at this point, as he'd been learning piano recently and had found out he enjoys it much more than guitar. Since then they have been practising regularly, at Gus' house and in practice studios in Edinburgh, teaching Simon the songs, and are now starting to play gigs everywhere!
Friends! Summer's here (not that the sun knows about it!)...
To celebrate not only this but the official release of our album (on i tunes and such like) we cordially invite you to our album launch at Henry's Cellar Bar on Monday 4th August. Get your dancing shoes on, grab your friends by the hand, lead them in the ways of Zorbic rightousness, and come on down for a dazzling night to remember...
Hear ye, hear ye friends. Calling all ye faithful and faithless, the Big Hand debut album is finally here and set to dazzle upon the main stage of life! Yes, its set for release, and its gonna blow your socks off.........
............ 14 tracks of the finest sparkling soulful zorbic ska ever heard for just ten little pounds, just a click to the left there. Get yourselves the remedy for the April showers, reach out through the ether and get yourself one today. Go on, you know you want to!
Hear ye, hear ye, pirates. After many moons, the Big Hand debut album is finally waiting eagerly in the wings and is set to dazzle upon the main stage of life! Yes, its set for release, and its gonna blow your socks off. So............... ...........to celebrate this wonderful occasion, get your dancing shoes on, and please grace us with your presence at the Bongo Club at 7pm on Friday 8th Feb, for a superspecial limited edition launch gig (and get your hands on a sparkling new copy before the less fortunate outside our good city walls)! Featuring of course ourselves, plus the incredible Bombskare, and many guest musicians from your favourites such as The Ruffness and Myagi to help spice up the party. Get yourselves the remedy for the winter blues, grab your friends by the hand and lead them in the ways of Zorbic rightousness, and come on down for a dazzling night to remember...
This Sunday we have Part 4 of our Bank Holiday Specials. This time we welcome back Big Face (www.myspace.com/bigfacebeats) and The Invisibles (www.myspace.com/invisiblesuk) who along with our Guest Dj will keep you entertained. Only £5 entry!! or £4 for students, should be a good one... have a great holiday weekend! xxx
Hey Hey! Just a wee reminder that we're playing Bannermans this Thursday and recording the show for the video of our debut single. So dust down yer dancing shoes, hold onto your hat and come make yourself famous! BH
hey guys, hope you're well. please forgive another shameless plug, i thought it would be nice to go round everyone individually to spread the word...
'coming up for air' (from the lost album), and my record 'growing flowers by candlelight' are now available on digital download from i tunes worldwide (they'll be on other download stores soon lso).
'flowers' is also available on cd from ainsliemusic.com (all copies sold through the site are signed and i ship worldwide), all branches of beanscene and edinburgh branches of hmv.
Hello there! The new song, 'Over the Barricade' is now up on our page so feel free to take a quick listen. We're going to be trying our very best to get a top 40 spot so if you want to help, PLEASE pre-order from Wippit or by texting in. Thanks for all the continued support - mesh-29
Hi Laugh Like Pa, just a quick hello from the Jazz Pistols - hope you are doing fine and having a great week. Wish you all the best - thanks for being our friend and good luck for the things you do. Best regards - Christoph
If you would like to hear more tunes of the Jazz Pistols you can check out our homepage and get the Jazz Pistols CDs in our own shop - if you are living in the USA it will be cheaper to get them at Abstract Logix, CDBaby or as digital download at iTunes. Please join our newsletter if you are interested in our tour schedule and upcoming releases.
Hey - a wee update to our friends as it's been a couple of months. We now have a true fan page on Myspace too - click the logo below - where it's only folks that really like the music that get signed up. Amongst other cool things over there is a 6 minute version of our last gig - stop by and ask to be added and ...... Enjoy! (Oh - and thanks for being our friend !).
Just letting you know that our new CD, The Ocean Of Fire EP, is released on Monday November 27th on Cableattack!! If you have a look at our page you can listen to some tracks, download some tracks, watch the video that's on the CD, and then either buy the EP, or tell us where we can stuff our 6 euro.
hope your good, if you have a spare few moments we have fired up a new song on our page, would be amazing if you took a wee listen. there is a wee video there too now
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