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Tartan Specials
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Voice of the Tartan Army



Bannockburn, Scotland
United Kingdom

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Member Since2/10/2006
Band Websitehttp://www.tartanspecials.com
Band MembersKenny McIntosh: Vocals, guitar
Kenny McColl: Bass
Graeme McIntosh: Drums
Steve Suttie: Guitar, vocals
Malky Boyd: Lyrics
Norman Wilson: Lyrics
Colin Reid: Lyrics
InfluencesSpinal 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.
Record LabelIndie


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Nov 14 2009 11:00A
Club Ifor Bach Cardiff, Wales

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   About Tartan Specials

radge badges ya gadge ye

"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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Sex & Drugs & Sausage Rolls Video

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.


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Irma

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Oct 5 2009 5:04 PM

Hi Guys -  theres a nice UTube video by PaulHolland80 you'll enjoy - of the Hampden crowd durring your half time gig @ the Scotland V Holland  game . I've got it on my blog
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Oct 4 2009 8:01 PM

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Sep 21 2009 11:17 AM

Hy guys -  see more of the Hampden 999 gig in my Tartan Specials picture album
 
 


 


 


 

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Jul 24 2009 3:01 PM

Hi would have been good to have had you lads at the Diageo / Johnny Walkers Rally this Sunday . Have you heard Tragic Oharas tribute song ' I wont drink to that ' you can hear it on his My Space . Also have a listen to local lads Dalriad's song called ' This land ' on my page . Some of the words are suited to the keeping Johnny Walkers in Killy story . I changed some to better suit and called it
' This Toon '

Look at the bill boards
What do you see
Diageo headlines
Walkers is levin
Despite history
Down by the river
Below the willow tree
I’ll be waiting
So come and join me .

Two many people
Cant afford to give in
So open your hearts
And minds
To the struggle there in
No mystical secret
If Johnny goes
The toons din
If you want
To keep him
Stand up
For Johnny
And the toon
He lived in .

History’s all around you
Reach out and touch it and see
He belongs to this toon
And this toon is his destiny .

Talk about Levin
Whatever the price
But are you aware
Of the personal sacrifice
Maybe some day
When you look back and see
There’s one place for Johnny
And that’s here wi youn me

And its all around you
Reach out and touch it and see
He belongs tae this toon
And this toon is his destiny .

Enjoy the Hampden gig .
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