Typically a one-man-band, new album Car Boat Sail features contributions from the dysphoric Mike Lennie, the misanthropic Ross Middlemiss, the wistful Dan Faichney, and the jubilant Avril Smart. One or more of the above will feature during live performances.
Influences
Eels, Randy Newman, The Tragically Hip, The Mountain Goats, Iron & Wine, Dntel, The Beatles, Bright Eyes and others.
Sounds Like
Eels/Jason Molina/Elliot Smith, according to Mike. He writes for a music magazine so it must be true.
Gord Matheson was born under a wandering star that turned out to be a Boeing 737 flying over the Scottish town of Stirling way back in the 1980's. In the tumultuous twenty five years or so between then and now Gord's songwriting has developed from a style reminiscent of thirties dancehall showtunes to a more refined, sugary sweet type of indie-folk-acousta-pop.
After a wander around several of the Commonwealths' warmer countries, Gord launched his fourth full-length, Car Boat Sail, in the bitterly cold Summer of 2009.
Now resident in Dundee, Gord continues to write and gig, all the while avoiding the teenage pregnancy and rampant drug abuse that are rife in the city, and rejecting calls to join the 'Hulltoon Huns'.
Hailing from Edinburgh, Okker are a four piece signed to American label, Radio Down.
Sounding like anywhere from Fugazi, At the Drive in to Sonic Youth and Don Cabellero, these guys use stop-start rythmns with fractured vocals and little splashes of melody to draw you in
