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Friday, 19 February 2016

Salt and Sauce


I was in Edinburgh the other day that strange city where you get salt and sauce on your chips as opposed to salt and vinegar.
It got me thinking as to what music I have by Edinburgh artists. Not a lot seems to be the short answer.
I could only come up with country bands The Sunshine Delay and The Felsons although I'm sure there are others.

Here are a couple from Glad the third and final Felsons album from 1998 prior to Dean Owens going solo. Deano is joined by Calais Brown on guitar, Kev McGuire on bass and upright bass and K.W. Burns on drums

You'll have had your tea.

The Felsons - Boomerang Boy

The Felsons - Joseph Black

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15 comments:

  1. The Swede19 February 2016 at 08:53

    Salt and sauce? What fresh madness is this? Mrs S puts mayonnaise on hers, which makes me gag. The only time I ever put any condiment on a portion of chips (ketchup in my case) is if they're not from our usual chippy and are particularly poor and tasteless, otherwise I take 'em au naturale.

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    1. Anonymous19 February 2016 at 13:10

      Mayonnaise? Tres continental! This must stop.

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  2. Dirk19 February 2016 at 10:10

    Believe it or not, I like 'em a lot with mustard! Then again I'm German, so what do I know ...

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  3. Anonymous19 February 2016 at 13:11

    I do like a bit of sauce but not in place of vinegar. Surely, s & v are sacrosanct?

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  4. Brian19 February 2016 at 15:56

    Mayo from time to time but usually on their own. Mustard is an abomination.

    You would certainly know more about the geography, but these were the first bands that came to mind. Davy Henderson's entities (Josef K, Win, etc.) and Shop Assistants. Aren't Rezillo's from Edinburgh? More recently, I think We Were Promised Jetpacks... Kid Canaveral began in St. Andrews but call Edinburgh home now. I suspect JC will have several to add. As someone from far away, it seems like so many bands come from mysterious sounding places like Dunfermline, East Kilbride, Perth, Paisley. Probably not so exotic locales to you.

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    1. Charity Chic19 February 2016 at 17:17

      I'll give you Davy Henderson Brian - I have a Dawn of the RePelicans album somewhere.Rezillos are from Fife I think?Forgot about Goodbye Mr Mackenzie!

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    2. Brian19 February 2016 at 18:03

      I'm sure you are right about Rezillos. Nice one with Goodbye Mr. MacKenzie.

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    3. Brian20 February 2016 at 04:51

      Did I really put Josef K? I meant Fire Engines. What an idiot.

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    4. Charity Chic20 February 2016 at 08:37

      Josef K were from Edinburgh too Brian so you were half right!

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  5. Charity Chic19 February 2016 at 17:17

    Replicants even

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  6. Rol19 February 2016 at 21:30

    Ah, syncronicity.

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  7. Swiss Adam21 February 2016 at 14:12

    Mayonnaise def. Or ketchup. Or both.

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  8. Walter21 February 2016 at 15:04

    Dirk is the only one I know that use to put mustard on his chips. Crazy but it's his taste

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  9. JC25 February 2016 at 21:31

    Sorry I missed this last week.

    It's salt'n'vinegar every time. Any alternative, including foreign options such as mayo, have to be treated with utter disdain. Oh and they have to be washed down with irn bru.

    Edinburgh bands? These are off the top of my head....

    Fire Engines (and by extension Win, Nectarine#9 and The Sexual Objects thanks to the Davey Henderson connection); Josef K; Meursault; Shop Assistants; Ballboy; The Scars; Goodbye Mr Mackenzie (and by extension The Exploited and The Blood Uncles thanks to Big John Duncan); Foil; Hey! Elastica; oh and Edwyn Collins was actually born in Edinburgh (albeit he grew up in the west).

    Then there's a great wee punk band from '77 with a great wee song about Edinburgh:-

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW8mY4wcns0





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