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The Creeping Charlies

Scotland's slowest band

About Me

Formed in 1984 played infrequent but memorable gigs and struggled manfully on through various drummers until 2000 when they finally began recording their first album - still not completed - these guys really take their time!This band is really good though.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/4/2004
Band Website: geocities.com/bgbop
Band Members:Rab, Larry and Stevie mostly, but also Calum, Lesley, Cheryl, Saz, Alistair, Davy to name a few.
Influences: Rockabilly, Lawrence Alexander, Beatles, Smiths, Jon Wayne, Jam, Fall, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Johnny Carroll, watching the telly whilst growing up, Thelonius Monk, Don Woody, non-fiction, Hank Thompson, Mamas and Papas, Beach Boys, Birthday Party, Don Gibson, Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent, the hopeless grinding nature of everyday life and employment in a grim environment populated by philistines, Roy Orbison, Peanuts Wilson, the lessons of history, Roy Hall, John Rankin, Elvis, Romantic strolls doon the coowsie, James Brown, Serge Gainsbourg, The manly satisfaction of woodworking, Billy Mackenzie, Stuart Duff, Captain Beefheart, Jake Thackray, Dexter Slim and the Pickups, Begloom, Lovin Spoonfull, Cougars, vicious feminists, Pete Doherty, Johnny Burnette, Babyshambles, Miff fukin Mole, Clarence Williams, Dirty Pretty Things, Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies, Carl Barat, Louvin Brothers, Cliffie Stone, Eric Morecombe, Jimmy Rodgers, Bob Wills, The laughing sound of Joseph Conrad, nuture, Ian Scott and his Dad, Morrissey, Hank Williams, Little Richard, Libertines, Kittens and puppies and piglets.
Sounds Like: A bunch of musicians playing instruments and singin, know.
Record Label: Bowler Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Movie Soundtrack

My old pal John Rankin has used an ancient Instant Swanndon tune "The Gloom Stairs" as end title music for a Horror film he made recently.  You can actually see this work of genius here: www...
Posted by The Creeping Charlies on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:09:00 PST

Chloe

Welcome to the Chloe, on this day of Russell Brand performance, cooking lamb curry and steak pie, that rotten soakin rain you get in Scotia, disappointed gran, excited cousins, Rangers 1 Celtic 0, fir...
Posted by The Creeping Charlies on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 03:14:00 PST

rockabilly

Right let's get this straight I LOVE ROCKABILLY. What I don't like is psychobilly ....it's UTTER SHITE!!!!!!!!!! Distortion has no place in rockabilly and if you don't know that you are a fukin cunt
Posted by The Creeping Charlies on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:24:00 PST

New Tune

Awright mate?  I've put a new tune on here for your delectation and listening pleasure. It's called " The cops could get involved" and it's a true story of modern morality. Beezer
Posted by The Creeping Charlies on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:10:00 PST

The lyric I want you to find the tune for

Nobody calls me on my telephone hungover in the corner weeping all alone someone call my mother because I want to go home It's a blue blue Saturday Night I can't think about the things I've done &nb...
Posted by The Creeping Charlies on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 03:53:00 PST

Further work and a surprise new tune

29/05/06 More recording - a solid version of "The Dead Past" with finished vocal; a wildly beautiful version of "Sometimes I Wonder" featuring powerfully bent bass from me; yet another version of "T...
Posted by The Creeping Charlies on Mon, 29 May 2006 01:47:00 PST

Recording on a knife edge of tension

Larry and  I visited chez MrT to continue the never ending recording sesh.  Unfortunately all sorts of hard disk trauma resulted in heart stopping peaks and troughs of emotion. Have we actua...
Posted by The Creeping Charlies on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 01:09:00 PST