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[Andy Mulhern]

Unkle Bob return to Aberdeen on June 8th at The Tunnels in promotion of their new single "Too Many People" released on June 19th (just put back from the 5th).

Have a listen - http://www.myspace.com/unklebobband

Support from Delawair and Kathryn Sawers




For Unkle Bob, sell-out shows across Scotland (The Liquid Rooms, the Arches and King Tut's), 2 successive performances at the T IN THE PARK festival, and airplay on BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio Scotland, Beat 106 form only part of the excitement that has built around a very promising young band.

“Unkle Bob will bring out the starry eyed idealist in all of you!” (The List 04)

Influenced by the mighty singer-songwriters of the early 70s like Nick Drake, Van Morrison, Tim Buckley, Cat Stevens, John Martyn, Carole King, and Neil Young; Unkle Bob are an acoustic 5-piece making use of guitars, banjo, mandolin, double bass, piano, organ, tabla, djembe, percussion and singer Rick Websters remarkably expressive voice.

“The Bob have a singer who sounds like Nick Drake whispering secrets into Ray Davies' ear.” The Scotsman (July 04)

Their sound has been descirbed as "the musical equivalent of the last warm bath you'd take before cutting your wrists" (Guardian), but they insist that it is all about the writing of good songs. Masterminded from a laptop in a tenement flat in Glasgow, and bucking the current trend for decibel-addiction instead prefering their own brand of melancholic indie-folk, Unkle Bob are champions of independent music making. Through their own label Friendly Sounds, several home-grown releases have received much critical acclaim.

"In a world looking for the next fashion, the outstanding Unkle Bob might well turn out to be the norm” The List 50 Best Scottish bands of all Time (New Talent)

Following an excellent debut 9-track album and a debut EP "THe Hit Parade", "Too Many People" is the first single from their forthcoming debut album.

"[The Hit Parade EP] shows astonishing potential for songwriting that is genuinely moving." Music Week (March 05)

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