Bubblegum Lemonade

Bubblegum Lemonade is a 60’s influenced 12-string Indie-Pop affair based in Glasgow, Scotland. A fondness of the Byrds and the Mary Chain comes across on such songs as ’The Tomorrow People’ and ’Unsafe At Any Speed’. Laz from Bubblegum Lemonade also moonlights with Strawberry Whiplash .
The band name is inspired by Mama Cass Elliot’s 1969 solo album ’Bubblegum, Lemonade & Something for Mama’.
’Tyler’ is included on the The Matinée Hit Parade CD which is out now.
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’Ten Years Younger’ CDEP (matinée 064) is now available to buy online from the good people at Matinée Recordings .
This debut EP features ’Ten Years Younger’, ’The Tomorrow People’, ’Unsafe at Any Speed’ and ’That Thing You Do.’
Yes, ’That Thing You Do’ is a cover of that song from that film.
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By the way, a big thank you to Lostmusic at Indie MP3 for his ongoing appreciation and encouragement .
’Unsafe At Any Speed’ is featured on the compilation tape C-06 released by Mira El Péndulo !
Some of Laz’s previous bands have been...

The Jaggy Nettles (With Gordon ).
The Dilithium Crystals.
The Badger Brothers (With Michael ).
The Sherbet Fountains (With Gordon , Dave and Allison ) .
The Spaceheads (With Dave and Gordon ).
My Little Underground.
Sunburst.
The Stepping Stones (With Allison and Brian ).
The Search Engines (With Brian , Icky and Paul ).

Surely one day they will all have a Myspace page.
Some EDITED reviews just in for Ten Years Younger :

Ten Years Younger is the jangled up long lost cousin of The Velvets ’I’ll Be Your Mirror’. An essential purchase for anyone with a jangle pop bone in their body – Bubblegum Lemonade have made a great EP that takes on board a lot of C86’s original reference points and created something of real beauty. -- Indie-mp3.co.uk

The songs on the EP are all infectiously catchy and good enough to make you want to break lampshades in unbridled euphoria. Hell yeah! It’s Bubblegum Lemonade!” -- Luna Park 6

This is going to be one of the records of the year - a fine slice of old style indie - think Razorcuts mixed with 85 era Mary Chain and you are getting close. Beautiful stuff. -- Indie-mp3.co.uk

Take Bubblegum Lemonade - he’s from Glasgow, so he must know a thing or two about grey skies, yet he’s managed to craft some splendid songs that hark back to the glorious days of C86 and 53rd & 3rd. There’s the definite Jesus & Mary Chain influence in the feedback-laden harmonies and echoed drums of "Ten Years Younger", while his cover of "That Thing You Do" is just dreamy.nbsp; -- Alex Loves You...

Laz, the only member in the band, is good at making songs I can fall in love with, and he’s good at making 60’s songs that sound like they’ve travelled through the decades and taken what’s worth taking with them on their journey through time. The melody is always in focus.I’m really impressed by this EP, and I think every home should have one. Oh…. there are only 1000 copies available, so at least 1000 homes should have one. Make sure YOUR home gets one. NOW! . -- Knut - Eardrummusic.com

I immediately made my way to Matinee’s Myspace page with the intention of using it as a spring board to get to the individual bands’ pages. What I was greeted with, however, was a cover of a song that I love from a movie that I love, but not that many people seem to share my opinion of. Except the sweet, sixties style, pop that I adored in the original had been replaced with sweet, fuzzy, eighties style (but sixties influenced,) Scottish pop that I just might adore even more. Listening to the song repeatedly for the past few days hasn’t helped me to make up my mind. I think that a viewing of "That Thing You Do" might be the only thing to resolve this. Although, Bubblegum Lemonade do get bonus points for being a band that actually exists, and for being Scottish. -- squaregirls.blogspot.com

Ten Years Younger features jingle jangle Rickenbackers and is total guitar heaven in the vein of early Primal Scream, Postcard Records, Biff, Bang, Pow! and the early Servants… Absolutely irresistable! More please! -- Pennyblack Magazine

Ten Years Younger EP is willing to throw all its got into the pop-rock stratosphere: the title track is wedged somewhere between the Smiths’ early recordings and the Velvet Underground’s Loaded, taking the best of both worlds. “Unsafe at Any Speed” is a fuzz-drenched cocktail of surf music with a Dandy Warhol lemon put in for flavor. As you can imagine, these songs are about as lasting as a fudgesicle on a summers day, but sometimes that’s exactly what you’re in the mood for. -- Evan Sawdey @ Popmatters.com

The songs are an even split between Razorcuts and the Jesus And Mary Chain, superimposing jangly guitars and heartfelt vocals over a reverbed-out drum machine. It can swing either way, with "The Tomorrow People" sounding much more like the former and the introduction of a wall of feedback in "Unsafe At Any Speed" making the song a dead ringer for something from "Psychocandy". Unfortunately, they also give their cover of "That Thing You Do!" (you know, by the Oneders) the same JAMC treatment, thereby sucking most of the life and pep out of it, but the rest of the record is a fine treat. -- Chris @ Indiepages.com

Well you knew Glasgow wouldn’t let Sweden claim the title ’Indie Pop Capital of the World’ without a fight. Bubblegum Lemonade’s Ten Years Younger EP contains the kind of perfect pop songs, full of Rickenbacker jangle and unforgettable melodies, that you feel like they’ve been around for ever; not in a ’heard it all before’ way, but rather from honing in on those essential elements that make pop music beautiful. -- Chris @ Among The Aisles

Review for ’Tyler’
While a couple of the songs on Bubblegum Lemonade’s MySpace page feature prominent electronics, including the title track to the forthcoming Ten Years Younger EP, this one could almost have been pulled straight out of the 1960s, with tambourines and Laz’s cheery vocal harmonies nicely recalling the false ebullience of classics like "I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better". Updating the sound slightly is a thin haze of JAMC-informed distortion, and some programmed beats do glimmer beneath it all, only fully emerging near the end. Sweden may be doing more to move indie pop forward these days, but Glasgow is keeping the flame. -- Marc Hogan - pitchforkmedia.com