Turn on the TV: wall-to-wall doom and gloom as the world lurches towards the “brink of all-out war” (sidebar – for an eye-opening expose on how the media manipulates war for various reasons, check out the movie ‘Wag The Dog’). Turn on social media: wall-to-wall bullshit as Westminster lurches from …
Read More »Interview: Lil Charlie – The Swamp Born Assassins
Glasgow rockers The Swamp Born Assassins put the time in lockdown to good use by reimaging four of their tracks in an acoustic style. Having road-tested the approach, first with an instore appearance at a local HMV, then as part of Guy Bellamy’s ‘Spirit of Wildfire’ festival-on-the-radio, The Swamps knew …
Read More »Review: The Swamp Born Assassins – The Lockdown Acoustic Sessions EP
One of the results of the pandemic and the subsequent cancelling of live gigs has been the rise in the number of bands revisiting previously released material, and re-recording it acoustically. For Glasgow’s The Swamp Born Assassins, the seeds were sown by performing an acoustic set instore in a local …
Read More »Review: The Swamp Born Assassins – ‘Gates Of Hades’
Glasgow’s finest purveyors of “Swamp Rock”; The Swamp Born Assassins, return with a new extended line-up, and a new single – ‘Gates Of Hades’. Swelled by the addition of David Cowan on keys, the Swamps are now a magnificent seven-piece, with the end result being a fuller, fleshed-out sound which …
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