Serious Drugs by BMX Bandits
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Norman Blake version
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This is not a comment on my current state of mind...
’If I could be in any other band, it would be BMX Bandits.’ - Kurt Cobain...
This seemed appropriate given that I am on serious painkillers for my back at the moment lol. Seriously I have never understood why this band aren't huge and loved by all. They write such lovely songs and even Kurt Cobain was a fan. This is probably their best song. I had to go in six record shops to get it on CD single, and in the pouring rain, but it was definitely worth it!
Live at Oran Mor in Glasgow, 23rd January 2011. 25th Anniversary gig. BMX Bandits are a Scottish 1960s-influenced guitar pop band who have been making music from 1986 to the present day. They have shared members with other Bellshill bands Teenage Fanclub and The Soup Dragons. BMX Bandits were formed by songwriter and lead vocalist Duglas T. Stewart out of the ashes of The Pretty Flowers, a group that featured Stewart alongside Frances McKee (later of The Vaselines), Sean Dickson and Norman Blake. The group have had many line up changes throughout the years. Their songs mix melodic qualities and humour with, at times, raw and heartbreaking pathos. Stewart has written many of the group's works solo including "Your Class", "The Sailor's Song" and "Doorways" but also has collaborated with many of the other members. Stewart's most regular songwriting partners have been Francis MacDonald, Norman Blake and, more recently, David Scott.
~Serious Drugs | Bmx Bandits~
