Track Listing 1. Everybody Knows It's True 2. Come Away In The Dark Download

Track Listing 1. A Glamour 2. Come Away in The Dark 3. Everybody Knows It's True 4. Into The Corn Download

I may not be here to enjoy them, but it doesn't mean there aren't some excellent gigs in Edinburgh this week. There's even the slightly surreal appearance of Raekwon from the Wu Tang Clan at the Liquid Room on Tuesday 15th. I say surreal, because I don't know much of a hip hop community in Edinburgh, and it doesn't really strike me as a very hip hop kind of city, so if we indie folk think it's hard work living here, I can't imagine how much harder it must be for the city's hip hop community [...]
Ik heb twee jaar geleden het debuut van The Phantom Band beschreven op File Under, een mooi album met donkere en lange nummers. Nu komen ze met opvolger The Wants, en ik zal niet beginnen met het cliche 'het moeilijke...

At the end of last year we named The Wants , the second record from Scottish six-piece The Phantom Band , as our third favourite record of 2010. We were therefore chuffed to bits to get hold of them before their recent Bristol gig to record a GoldFlakeSession . The band battled a bout of on-tour flu long enough to perform this brilliant acoustic version of Come Away In The Dark exclusively live for us. Enjoy... * * * To purchase The Wants by The Phantom [...]
Twitter, much like new music, is a fast moving world. As such, I can't recall who it was that recommended we take a look at a band we missed from last year, The Phantom Band. To whomever it was that recommended them to us a few weeks back, I say thanks, and sorry for this...
This weeks listings include international dates from The Phantom Band, Broken Records and Biffy Clyro, while Vic has more on Edwyn Collins who is in Austria, Germany and Turkey this week. Next month Edwyn will visit New York, Austin and Japan. More below: Edwyn Collins in Germany, Austria and Turkey by Vic Galloway It's been [...]

I have scouts around the world. I can kind of say that now, my reliable friend in Basel, Switzerland, gave me a shout out for The Phantom Band . Turned out to be a shout worth listening to. The Phantom Band have been lurking since 2004, and in 2007 signed to London label Trial & Error. They now ply their trade locally with Glasgow indie label Chemikal Underground . Their third album The Wants was released in October [...]
This weeks listings include international dates from Fran Healy, KT Tunstall and Biffy Clyro, while Vic has more on, arguably, Scotland's biggest band Mogwai who celebrate the release of their new album today with a gig in Dublin tonight. The album is out in the US tomorrow. Details, as always, below: Mogwai in Ireland by [...]
This weeks listings include international dates from The Phantom Band, Isobel Campbell and Lloyd Cole, while Vic has more on Edinburgh's Broken Records who have a busy week with gigs in four countries. They will then start their first US tour on February 20th. Broken Records in Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and France. by Vic Galloway [...]
The Phantom Band have just released their latest video for 'Everybody Knows This Is True' ... it's mental. Full on psychedelic nonsense. Part Monty Python, part Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. The song itself is catchy enough and plods along with a 'boom-boom-waaaaaaah' loop that has taken up residence in my head since watching this. Check it out here: [...]
If Oxford can be said to have an iconic music venue then it would undoubtedly be the Jericho Tavern in Walton Street. The beer-sticky room over the pub having paid host to many of the indie greats, the indie up-and-comers, and the indie flash-in-the-pans over the past thirty years or so. And so it was there that Scottish folk experimentalists The Phantom Band kicked off their 46 date tour last night. Dressed appropriately in tartan shirts and chunky highland knitwear the six-piece crammed on to the small stage and without preamble launched straight into a full-on [...]
'Everybody Knows It's True' by The Phantom Band , posted with vodpod

In many ways, The Phantom Band are an archetypal Scottish band. The six-piece Glasgow group showcase a lot of elements common amongst bands from the region: a history of windswept folk, blustery rock, bluesy downtrodden guitars (there are three of those instruments on stage in Whelan's) and a willingness to experiment beyond the established norm with wood-block xylophones and a not-out-of-place thread of electronics are all at the heart of what they do. They're aptly-named too. Their sound shapeshifts around all of the aforementioned touchstones tonight. After two underrated and impressive albums, Checkmate Savage [...]
A list of personally recommended events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin. All times are 7.30pm/8pm unless stated. Feel free to leave your picks in the comments. Top 3 gigs this week: Wed 19th Jan : The Phantom Band , We Are Losers , The Minutes @ Whelan's (€15) Fri 21st Jan : MUD: All City Present Ikonika (Hyperdub), Ghostiez @ Twisted Pepper (€10, €TBC) Sat 22nd [...]
Barely a minute into the conversation and Gerry Hart from The Phantom Band has already invited himself to kip over in State’s house next time he and his band of five merry men are coming through town. Sure, it’s a little forward but it’s the kind of upfront attitude we like here. The Scottish six-piece, who released their follow-up album The Wants in October of last year, are due to hit Irish shores this week for a mini-tour around the country, and bassist Gerry tells us that the group have been looking forward to [...]
The 2011 Scottish international tour calendar finally gets going this week with Three Blind Wolves in the Netherlands and Primal Scream in New Zealand and Australia. And Vic has more on the Phantom Band who are in Ireland. The Phantom Band in Cork, Dublin and Limerick by Vic Galloway The Phantom Band are absolutely superb, [...]
The Phantom Band - « Crocodile » Sacré morceau. J'aurais bien aimé être présente aux jams sessions qui en ont accouché ! Il est extrait du premier album des Ecossais de The Phantom Band , Checkmate Savage , sorti en janvier 2009. Leur deuxième disque, Wants , sorti ct'année, a de bonnes chances d'être chroniqué par ici. Dans la vidéo ci-dessus, le mec en haut à droite me fait un peu peur. J'ai mis un moment à me rappeler que c'était un tube de mélodica qui sortait [...]

Here is The Phantom Band with their latest single from their recently released sophomore album The Wants . Check out the stream of the track below. "Everybody Knows It's True" by The Phantom Band from The Wants No related posts.
As Vic has been taking a well earned break after hosting Edinburgh's Hogmanay party with Biffy Clyro, Dear Scotland has been updating the Scotland on Tour database with almost 300 new international shows from Scottish artists as diverse as Primal Scream, Isobel Campbell, Mogwai, Eddi Reader and Nazareth. Check it out below: Scotland on Tour [...]