Photo by Nicky Murray Great news announcing the impending release of Robin’s 8th studio album “Sun Behind The Storm” on 6th April 2023. Available in all good record stores, the cd album contains 8 quality tracks which have already stirred up interest and acclaim from reviewers. The title track was originally released as a single… Read More…
A very Merry Christmas and best wishes for 2023 from everyone associated with the band. Back in 2011, we recorded a video of a Christmas song written by Chris called ” Aw The Nights Are Fair Drawin’ In”. Although we have now passed the Winter Solstice and the nights are now drawing out, I thought… Read More…
Today would have been Chris’s 78th birthday and to remember him, I attach a recording of My Real Hero from 2009 when the band played at the What’s Cookin’ gig at The Sheepwalk Pub in London. Hard to believe this was 13 years ago. For the short promotional tour, Ronnie Garrity & John Bradley guested… Read More…
It was the summer of 1972, unbelievably 50 years ago, that Tony Stratton Smith came to Glasgow to see String Driven Thing perform at Burns Howff and to sign them to his label. In the months that followed, the band’s second eponymous album was recorded and released and, before the year end, they would be… Read More…
Another month arrives and for your interest I have put up a couple of soundcheck videos. One is from one of our visits across the Atlantic. Not the famous gig supporting Genesis in New York but the shorter trip to Easdale Island near Oban. The other one is from one of our soujorns across the… Read More…
