Q: If it looks like a country band, and it features country instruments, but patently isn’t country music, then what is it? A: The Southern Tenant Folk Union, of course.
It’d be simplistic to say that Dropkick are Edinburgh’s answer to Teenage Fanclub, though it’s true for many of their songs. The breezy tunes, alternating harmonies and country touches here and there evince a hybrid of The Fannies and The Jayhawks
Tweepop! Home of lollipop-sucking scenesters, handclaps and people in thrall to 1967, right? Well, maybe. But there’s more to it than that.
A couple of years back, ardentjohn took the Beatles-in-Hamburg-esque (is that a word?) step of playing a month at a resort in the Italian Alps. Fourteen shows a week will make any band tighter than the proverbial dog’s bits, and they’re no exception to the rule.
Finniston are Steven, Jolene, Andrew and Jamie. The fact that one of them is actually called Jolene should be enough to take them to country megastardom, were there any justice, but sadly they haven’t taken that particular musical route.
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