The Beta Band & Pictish Trail

They say "never meet your heroes," but here at the Green Man Podcast we can't pass up an opportunity to make dreams come true. So when Johnny Lynch aka Pictish Trail told us he's a HUGE fan of The Beta Band (his words, "probably the most important band of my LIFE") we knew what we had to do.  Electrocuted by illuminated stage suits, leaving £4000 worth of velcro costumes on the tube, accidentally playing a show in a remote scout hut, appearing as one of John Cusack’s favourite bands on High Fidelity: The Beta Band have had quite the career. Scotland’s Steve Mason and co recently reunited to celebrate their thirty year anniversary, their idiosyncratic songs and live extravaganzas burn as brightly as ever. “I will now sell five copies of The Three EPs by The Beta Band…”