Kenny McIntosh: Vocals, guitar Kenny McColl: Bass Graeme McIntosh: Drums Steve Suttie: Guitar, vocals Malky Boyd: Lyrics Norman Wilson: Lyrics Colin Reid: Lyrics
Influences
Spinal Tap, the Krankies, B.A. Robertson, Lulu and the theme music from Countdown
Sounds Like
.. the biggest supergroup you can imagine, including all the members of Primal Scream, Travis, Teenage Fanclub, Franz Ferdinand, the Jesus & Mary Chain, the Proclaimers, the Skids, Idlewild, Dogs Die In Hot Cars, Grim Northern Social, Sons & Daughters, Real Mckenzies, Rezillos, the Silencers, Belle & Sebastian, Aberfeldy, Arab Strap, Beta Band, Big Country, Associates, Delgados, Orange Juice, Vaselines ... and a few from outside of God's country: the Clash, the Specials, the Undertones & the Kinks. R.I.P Stuart, Billy and Joe.
"We'll lick Jimmy Hill's ear lobes if you're not humming the tune for days"
-- Off The Ball
"Currently taking the spirit of the terraces and producing foot-stomping, floor-shaking, neighbour-bothering anthems guaranteed to put a smile on the face of any self-respecting Tartan Army footsoldier"
-- Famous Tartan Army Magazine.
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I love sex & drugs & sausage rolls, but nothing compares to Archie Gemmill's goal...
An adventurous bunch, the band claim to have cut their teeth in Kazakhstan and Stirlingshire, ingeniously marrying the harmonic vibrations of central Asia with the gritty gangsta street beats that surged through the simmering Falkirk ghettos in the late 80's.
When questioned on their musical influences the band cite Spinal Tap, the Krankies, B.A. Robertson and the theme music from Countdown.
Legend has it the band were christened after divine inspiration in the back of a cab on the way to a River Plate vs Boca Juniors game in Buenos Aires, although it's also rumoured that a beer can in Kilmarnock some years earlier may have provoked the brainwave. The Kestrel Lagers didnt have quite the same ring to it, apparently.
Perhaps less outlandish is the bands insistent claim that they introduced Doe a Deer to the Tartan Army as far back as 1989 on a trip to see Scotland get humped 3-0 by France in Paris.
One band member takes up the story: "We were getting fed up singing 'you can stick your Eiffel Tower up your arse' and were looking for something with some more depth and profundity.
That's when we started singing Doe a Deer. Its difficult to imagine something deeper than having the Eiffel Tower stuck up your arse, however, the rest is history."
Actually, Rogers & Hammerstein stole the song from us, continues another band member indignantly, and had the cheek to re-name the song Do-Re-Mi!
The Tartan Specials tunes include the catchy Unite the Clans and a very different version of the other Sound of Music classic My Favourite Things in which Stephen Hawking features on guest vocals. Julie Andrews would surely be turning in her grave, if she was actually dead.
The lads' tunes can still be heard in popular holiday locations such as Ukraine, where they stopped off en route to Moldova last year and their version of We'll be Coming is second only in popularity to the local vodka in several of Odessa's less salubrious nightclubs.
We'll Be Coming made its Hampden debut at half time during the home victory against Moldova and the band are convinced this event and recent upturn in the team's fortunes re not unrelated.
The above excerpt from issue 1 of the fantastic Famous Tartan Army magazine.
Most of us here are from the Celtic Isles of England,Ireland,Scotland,Wales and the Islands about our coasts. But we do welcome the odd Scottish American/Irish American and so on.Keeping our culture and heritage alive.
THESE ARE THE TIMES WHEN YOU KEN YIR GOIN PLACES BOYS . WHEN YOU GO OOT THE BACK GAIRDEN TO HANG YIR WASHIN OOT ON A SUNDAY MORNING AND YER BEST PALS TWO BOYS , BANDS CD IS PLAYIN OOT A NEIGHBURS WINDAEY . ' WE'LL BE COMIN DOON THE ROAD ' CHEARS LADS .
