The James McMahon Music Podcast
This episode features a conversation with Douglas MacIntyre, historian of Scottish indie and post punk, founder of the influential Creeping Bent label, and a musician of note via his own acts Article 58 and Port Sulphur. For an underground music nerd like myself, it really was quite the thrill.
And Douglas is also the author of a new book, Hungry Beat: The Scottish Independent Pop Underground Movement (1977 – 1984), which tells an oral history of an extraordinary period of music history where the labels Fast Product, from Edinburgh, and Postcard Records, from Glasgow, ignited a DIY spirit that would later be seen in better known labels like Rough Trade and Factory, as well as birthing a clutch of records - The Human League, Scars, The Mekons, Fire Engines, Josef K, Aztec Camera, The Go-Betweens and The Bluebells – that sound as incredible now as they did all those years ago. The book is out now on the ever excellent White Rabbit Books, and I do hope you enjoy a conversation that I think is both inspiring and enlightening.
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