Quinny
+ Marie Collins + KAZE + Velcrolove
After having £940 thrown at him while busking in the street, Quinny was spurred on to find time to write and record his own music. His first EP, Read All The Rumours (produced by Gang of Four bassist Thomas McNeice) took him on a tour around the USA and the UK and received a bunch of accolades from critics and punters alike. His song ‘Rumours’ was included as one of Rave Child's favourite releases of 2013 and on Netsounds Unsigned's favourites of 2013 Mixtape as well as being featured in Ralph's Life's top 100 playlist to celebrate their 100th show.
Returning in 2018, his latest EP, "Seasons Greetings from the Grotty Grotto!" brings a trilogy of gloriously satyric festive tracks, recounting today’s less wholesome (but much loved) Christmas traditions.
Marie Collins is a singer-songwriter and one quarter of Paisley band The Vegan Leather. As included in BBC's Vic Galloway's "bands to watch," The Vegan Leather have played the likes of T in the Park, TRNSMT, and The Barrowlands, as well as supporting The View, and Paisley's own Paolo Nutini. As a solo performer and songwriter, Marie’s songs hint towards pop classicism, and have a uniquely Scottish depth where lyrics are wry and poetic. Marie's songs encompass a youthful truthfulness through thoughtful phrasing and catchy melodies.
Line Up
Quinny
Marie Collins
KAZE - Amy Webber and Graham McCusker - have been hailed as “fresh-sounding, future-facing” by BBC 6 Music’s Tom Robinson and praised by BBC Radio Scotland’s Vic Galloway for their “operatic, off-kilter, syncopated prog-pop”. The pair met whilst studying opera at the Royal Northern College of Music in 2014 but they formed KAZE after Graham’s life-changing Leukaemia diagnosis in 2016. Through the gruelling months of chemotherapy, they wrote numerous songs - deciding to follow their pop instincts. Amy provides the soaring, operatically-charged vocals and lyrics that are intrinsic to their spellbinding sound and Graham masterminds the complex and definitive musical arrangements from the keys and beyond.
Secured airplay on BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio Scotland (Single of the Week), BBC Radio Manchester, BBC Radio Oxford and Amazing Radio. Their one-take music video for 'Pinned On You', their debut single, made ‘Video of the Month’ on OurStage and consequently KAZE were selected as ‘Artist of the week’ for Richer Unsigned.
** “Fresh sounding, future-facing” “A lovely vibrant, edgy, unusual kind of sound” - Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music
"Powerful live performers who draw heavily on a theatrical sensitivity. Backed up with a steady release of intelligent, high energy songs - they create a unique live experience." - Gavin Sharp, CEO Band On The Wall
"That's really quite something isn't it? Operatic, off-kilter, syncopated prog-pop" - Vic Galloway, BBC Radio Scotland
“Superb alternative-pop song…full of surprises” Rob Lewis, CEO Richer Unsigned
“That is pretty darn tasty” - Jim Gellatly, XFM, Amazing Radio
"Fingerprints of Fleetwood Mac and Steely Dan" - Colin Towns, Ian Gillan Band - Deep Purple**
