Louise Quinn is a singer/ songwriter with A Band Called Quinn . She has sung on several Kid Loco albums & he joins her on forthcoming single 'Oh Jackie' to be released on Tromolo Records in the New Year alongside the band's much anticipated new album Red Light Means Go. The band have three tracks featured on Series 2 of Lip Service which airs on BBC3 this spring. Here are her thoughts on the top 5 albums of 2011; I've not sought out any new music this year but through the ether certain albums have [...]
Id like to apologise in advance for the rushed nature of this weeks Freebies, too many Christmas nights out mean that I haven't had the chance to listen to everything this week. Still though there are some wee corkers in there, you'll just have to find them for yourself. Gargleblast Records In the spirit of all things Christmassy, Gargleblast Records have their very own advent calendar of free tunes to give away every day. So far they've posted up free tunes from the likes of De Rosa, to find out what todays freebie is [...]
Ian Rankin invites A Band Called Quinn to play The Aberfeldy Festival on Bonfire Night! A Band Called Quinn have been asked to play the Aberfeldy Festival on the 5th of November by Britain's best selling crime writer and Rebus creator Ian Rankin . Ardent music fan Ian Rankin is guest curator of this year's festival and the band are joined on the bill by James Yorkston, Admiral Fallow, Ballboy, Star Wheel Press, John Hunt and [...]
A Band Called Quinn 's micro-budget video for Wolf Cries Boy directed by Uisdean Murray has been selected to screen at the BBC Music Video Festival 2011 . The BBC Music Video Festival is the UK's only dedicated music video festival. Taking place from the 19th of September to the 1st of October all over the country on the BBC's Big Screens and on Europe's largest permanent digital screen Fusion at The Forum in Norwich. This is the festival's 3rd year and it received 440 entries which have been whittled down [...]
A Band Called Quinn releases Wolf Cries Boy (Tromolo Records) Single release: June 6, 2011 Glaswegian female fronted indie rockers A Band Called Quinn (ABCQ) release their new single Wolf Cries Boy from their critically acclaimed The Beggar's Opera album which features sleevenotes penned by Britain's best selling crime writer Ian Rankin on the 6th of June. Wolf Cries Boy was the final song in the spectacular Vanishing Point theatre show in which the [...]
The latest A Band Called Quinn video was made with Scottish horror film director Uisdean Murray & shot on the night of the biggest full moon in 33 years! Director Of Photography Ray Tallan is currently working on Kick-Ass co-creator Mark Millar's superhero film Miracle Park set & shot in Scotland. The single is due for release on the 6th of June on Tromolo Records .
Check out ABCQ's new video directed by Matthew Lenton . The song is taken from the Beggars Opera Album.
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When I sent emails out to all of the bands that I have featured this year as part of my Scots Way-Hay posts I honestly didn't expect to get much of a response. Turns out that I was completely wrong, as I have been inundated by bands wanting to share what's been floating their boat [...]
So here we are with the second of my series of posts getting some of the artists that did interviews for us to tell me their albums of 2010. Our artists taking part this week include A Band Called Quinn, Burnt Island, Come on Gang!, RM Hubbert and The Last Battle. We've got quite an [...]
So here we are with the second of my series of posts getting some of the artists that did interviews for me to tell me their albums of 2010. Our artists taking part this week include A Band Called Quinn, Burnt Island, Come on Gang!, RM Hubbert and The Last Battle. We've got quite an eclectic mix of albums here, a lot of which I haven't heard yet and some albums I love. A big shout out to the Last Battle for having all of the band choosing their album of the year. Top marks, however go out to Mikey [...]
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We're back! And what a better way to kick things off again than with a wonderful Mixtape Monday to bring you some of the latest new tracks and remixes floating around this week. Check 'em out... Read more..
After being talent-spotted in a club night featuring jazz-playing badgers, psychics and burlesque puppeteers, Glaswegian electro pop five piece A Band Called Quinn (fronted by singer/songwriter Louise Quinn) toured Britain last year with award winning theatre company Vanishing Point, in a futuristic update of John Gay's 18th Century classic The Beggar's Opera. Read more..
I've featured a lot of indie folk-pop bands recently, so I thought it was about time that I branched out a little. A Band Called Quinn are most certainly pop, but there's no folk to be had here, this is electro-pop done at it's finest. It was their last album, 'Sun Moon Stars' that first brought [...]
Photo by Jane Rolland I've featured a lot of indie folk-pop bands recently, so I thought it was about time that I branched out a little. A Band Called Quinn are most certainly pop, but there's no folk to be had here, this is electro-pop done at it's finest. It was their last album, 'Sun Moon Stars' that first brought the band to my attention, at the time I remember thinking that I liked what I heard but that they reminded me a bit of Goldfrapp. Which was especially odd as the [...]
Check out "Ghosts From The War", from Scottish band A Band Called Quinn. It is off their album Festival Harvest , set to come out on June 7th over in the UK. t's a lovely tune. Gonna try to find more on these guys. [mp3]: A Band Called Quinn - Ghosts From The War Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recomend on [...]
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