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Butcher Boy

About Me

Butcher Boy likes a world where evenings unfold from blue to pink to black to grey. Where cranes tug horizons. Where solemnity is a virtue. Where the height of civilization is resting your head in a loved one's lap.
Butcher Boy likes the precision of a scalpel and a metal rule. Butcher Boy finds October overrated, but concedes that it is definitely preferable to January. Butcher Boy would trade almost anything at any time to be standing by the flagpole in Queens Park as the light changes. Butcher Boy finds that nothing brings greater joy than dancing to favourite records. These records become part of Butcher Boy's world.
Butcher Boy welcomes growing old! Butcher Boy welcomes the quietness that it brings.
Butcher Boy likes dust.
Butcher Boy is very aware that voicing these things may be taken the wrong way. But Butcher Boy is fearful of the cool contempt of irony. And Butcher Boy digs the cafe culture.
There are situations you can engineer and better places to start. People framed in doorways. Silent Saturday evenings when the sun setting makes it seem as if the house is on fire. Closing your eyes and listening to the first Smiths record.
These are things that knock us to our knees.

(This profile was hacked into submission by Mike Industries .)

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Music:

Member Since: 4/13/2006
Band Website: butcher-boy.co.uk
Band Members: Maya Burman-Roy (cello); Alison Eales (piano, accordion); Garry Hoggan (bass, guitar); John Blain Hunt (vocals, guitar); Findlay MacKinnon (drums, percussion); Basil Pieroni (guitar).

Other players: Jenny Diep (cello); Jacqui Grant (cello); Pete Harvey (cello); Helena Johansson (violin); Aoife Magee (viola); Kasia Middleton (cello).
Record Label: How Does It Feel To Be Loved?
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Glittering Prize

Congratulations to our friend and Profit in Your Poetry illustrator Katie Pope on winning the Aspect art prize at the weekend.  We'll bask in a little of your reflected glory!   Album updat...
Posted by Butcher Boy on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:27:00 PST

Extra Curricular Activity

Hi   I’m treading the boards with my alter ego Coconut University next Friday 4th April at Glasgow’s newest country night ’Don’t Mess With Texas’.  It takes pla...
Posted by Butcher Boy on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:53:00 PST

The Rivers Too Shallow

Hello We finished our second batch of recording dates last night, and now the strings are set. Kings Park Brass Band came in too, and played Alison's piece for the end of the album. I'v...
Posted by Butcher Boy on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:47:00 PST

Hello again

It's been a while I know, but there wasn't a lot to report since the last bulletin as we'd been busy working on new songs and that's a lot less interesting a process than you might imagine.  ...
Posted by Butcher Boy on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:52:00 PST

Wedding Present/Butcher Boy at QMU Glasgow

Hi We're delighted to have been asked to step-up as support for the Wedding Present this Thursday 25th October at the QMU in Glasgow due to Coulter not being able to make it over from the US.&nbs...
Posted by Butcher Boy on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:53:00 PST

Cafe Shows Numbers Five and Six

Hello Well... we're done with our cafe shows! Thank you to everyone who came down to them, and especially to David, Colin and Margaret who made all of them. I felt under the weather at the Tinderbox ...
Posted by Butcher Boy on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:39:00 PST

No cafe show tomorrow!

Hi Quick note to say that we're not going to play at Tchai Ovna in the West End tomorrow (Tuesday)... hope it doesn't put anyone out too much. The other two dates (at Tinderbox on Ingram Street, and Q...
Posted by Butcher Boy on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:36:00 PST

Cafe Shows Numbers Three and Four

Hello The cafe shows haven't felt like they've come around quickly, but they have! A cough, an early night, and the next one is upon us. Off Shore was lovely. I'd been down to the cafe last week to c...
Posted by Butcher Boy on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:41:00 PST

Cafe Show Number Two

Hello... thank you again to everyone who came out for our cafe show on Sunday! It felt exactly how I'd imagined they would, a grey Sunday afternoon, traffic noise, clatter of spoons. The folk at the M...
Posted by Butcher Boy on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:18:00 PST

Cafe Show Number One

Hello Another thank you to the folk who came out for our first cafe show at Tchai Ovna this evening. I'm sitting in the gloom, blood travelling from one side of my forehead to the other, headlights sw...
Posted by Butcher Boy on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:00:00 PST