Pacey & Patron (Stacey Hunter & Ian Crawfo

About Me

EL RANCHO RELAXO was formed in 2004 by Ian Jnr. Crawford (El Patron) + Stacey Hunter (Pacey) to present and promote the best live and recorded country indie, indie country, country country, folky indie, indie folky, folky rockin' music around to a Glasgow audience.
El Rancho Relaxo of an evening will cover the best in Alternative American music, Psychedelic Folk, Cosmic Americana, Alt. Country, Classic Country & Western, Honky Tonk, Bluegrass, Folk and Blues plus The Outlaws, Troubadors and Unsung Heroes. We play a mix of new bands and emerging artists alongside the founders and the legends. El Rancho is currently homeless and looking into new ventures in 2008, stay tooned!
Awesome bands and artists we have featured in the past are:
King Biscuit Time, Down The Tiny Steps, The Risingson, Endrick Brothers, KIP, Cold Night Song, theonewhoflew, Lee Paterson, Raising Kain, Ally Kerr, Awesome Colour, Pop Up, Skeleton Bob, Billy Bates, You Already Know, A.M. Byrne, The Scuffers, Monica Queen, Y'all Is Fantasy Island, The Fortunate Sons, Older and Far Away, The Gilded Angels, Finniston, Team Turnip, Dropkick, The Porch Song Anthology, Wilson Tan, The State Broadcasters, Doghouse Roses, Michael Weston King, Blueflint, Tom Davis, Mike Hastings, Ross Fairweather, $outhpaw, The Stantons, The Southern Tenant Folk Union, Bjorn Heinz, The Dead Beat Club, Adam Beattie & The Consultants, Lucky Luke, The Mending Hearts Trio, The Toy Hearts, The North Country Ranblers, Jill Leighton, Rick Redbeard, The Tarantula Waltz and The Tempus Fugitives, Emma Tricca, Pete Greenwood, Davie Lawson, The Oran Social, Early Songs, John Yuil, Iain Shaw, John B. McKenna, Emily Scott, Y'all Is Fantasy Islands,If you can't wait till Sunday for your El Rancho fix then head down to Big Slope on Kelvingrove St & Sauchiehall St for a more eclectic mix of madness every Saturday night from 9pm-12am.
EL RANCHO club night...'Picante' NEXT UP:Saturday 9th March @ The Flying Duck, Renfield St, Glasgow. 10.30pm - 3am. With Special guest DJ's Yeasayer!!
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And don't forget to enter the world of El Rancho Records, again check the link in the top friends. You can buy the first ever release by clicking here...

My Interests

Music...people talking shite, me taliking shite...Nice (Spicy) food, tasty juice...

I'd like to meet:

Pacey likes to meet sweet dawgs who like swamp disco, island country, canyon classics, loner/stoner, natchez trace boogie and understand the ways of a mesa maverick. El Patron wants be meet the heartbroken and the heartbreakers.

Music:

Lately and the reasons for Picante...Black Lips, The Shaky Hands, Wilson Tan, Feist, Pissed Jeans, Cold War Kids, Balakan Beat Box, White Rabbits, Stars, Blitzen Trapper, Ladyhawk, Justice, Jennifer Gentel, Spank Rock...
and back to Relaxo...Andrew Bird, New Riders Of The Purple Sage, The Besnard Lakes, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Beep Seals, Company, Band of Horses, David Vandervelde, Crazy Horse, Richard Swift, Juana Molina, Vetiver, Oakley Hall, The Southern Tenent Folk Union, Beirut, Midlake, Ladybug Transistor, The Hidden Cameras, The Sadies, John Fahey, Blueflint, Great Lakes, Blood Meridian, Howe Gelb, The World Record, The Deadstring Brothers, Caitlin Cary And Thad Cockrell, Dusty Soundsystem, Adam Beattie, The New Lost City Ramblers, The Broken Family Band, John Hiatt, Smog, Brakes, Silver Jews, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Tyde, Wiskey Biscuit, King Creosote, Rogue Wave, Jim White, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Uncle Tupelo, The Rolling Stones, The Izzys, Magnolia Electric Co., Hem, The Byrds, Laura Veirs, Hank Williams, Faces, George Jones, Beechwood Sparks, Johnny Cash, Son Volt, Adem, Sufjan Stevens, The Band, Whiteout, Mr. David Viner, Volebeats, Jens Lekman, The Country Teasers, Laura Cantrell, The Replacements, Buck Owens, Soledad Brothers, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Big Star, Yo La Tengo, Broken Social Scene, James Yorkston, Scout Niblett, M Ward, John Martyn, Buffalo Springfield, Wilco, Cat Power, The Shins, The Carter Family, My Morning Jacket, Black Mountain, Pink Mountaintops, Neko Case, Grandaddy, The Meat Puppets, Mystic Chords Of Memory, Crosby, Stills, Nash and (Young), Aberfeldy, Shout Out Louds, Bright Eyes, Dusty Springfield, Calexico, Belle & Sebastian, Thee Shams, Frausdots, Pavement, Down The Tiny Steps, Lucinda Williams, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Brendan Benson, Adam Green, Lucky Luke, Iron & Wine, The Dexateens, The Allman Brothers Band, Nirvana, Elliott Smith, Canned Heat, Arcade Fire, Arab Strap, Mountain Goats, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Decemberists, Teenage Fanclub, The National, Blanche, The Gun Club, The Pastels, Fence Collective, Alfie, Papa M, All Night Radio, John Prine, The Earlies, The Sights, Patsy Cline, Royal Trux, The Velvet Underground, Hamell On Trial, The Black Crows, Jim Noir, The Handsome Family, Drive-By Truckers, The Horns Of Happiness, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Willie Nelson, The Concretes, Devendra Banhart, REM, Songs:Ohia, The Magic Numbers, Malcom Middleton, Golden Smog, The Ponys, Joanna Newsome, Ryan Adams, The Detroit Cobras, Gram Parsons, Jimmie Rodgers, Moe Bandy, Hank Williams Jnr, Steve Earl, Buck Owens, Del Reeves, Hank Snow, Tex Ritter...and more more more, more more more!

Movies:

Jan/Feb 08: Polyester, Hairspray, Eagle V's Shark, Dearhunter, Dr Strangelove and Waiting For Guffman

Television:

Flight of The Concords!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Books:

all those ones with the really big old words in 'em

My Blog

Best of series continues

Howdy ho ho ho to old friends and future pals, I hope everyone has had a great year and y'all are looking forward to the possibilities 2008 may bring, not to mention the heartaches and hango...
Posted by Pacey & Patron (Stacey Hunter & Ian Crawford) on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:10:00 PST

Some of El Patrons DJ Set lists

Hello, just a few scribbled sets from the last few weeks, they tend to grind to a halt after the beers kick in! You'll get the idea... Sat 28th April @ Big Slope Blanche - I'm Sure of It, The Par...
Posted by Pacey & Patron (Stacey Hunter & Ian Crawford) on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 05:59:00 PST

The List Magazine article

This preview by the List was awesome since it helped us SELL OUT the venue! but somehow wires were crossed and the article is written as though both Pacey & Patron are boy's. It was pretty funny.....
Posted by Pacey & Patron (Stacey Hunter & Ian Crawford) on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:16:00 PST

Guardian feature on new Country music

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/features/story/0,,2008659 ,00.html Click on this link to a lovely wee article featured in The Guardian Guide (Sat 10th Feb-Fri 16th Feb) Not only does it m...
Posted by Pacey & Patron (Stacey Hunter & Ian Crawford) on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:03:00 PST

The World Record's debut album 'Guitars Forever' is available in Glasgow!

Some of you may be aware of the track 'Get Up Star' which was featured on El Rancho Relaxo's myspace page for most of the year, if you are then you will also be aware of the name The World Record. Hai...
Posted by Pacey & Patron (Stacey Hunter & Ian Crawford) on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 07:01:00 PST