3 x CD: £29.99
Label: Cherry Red
Release date: 24.04.2026
Format Info: 3CD CLAMSHELL
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Label: Cherry Red
Release date: 24.04.2026
Format Info: 3CD CLAMSHELL
3CDs COMPILED BY CELEBRATED AUTHOR AND DIRECTOR
GRANT MCPHEE
(POSTCARD FROM
SCOTLAND,
TEENAGE SUPERSTARS
, ETC).
TRACING THE EVOLUTION OF THE SCOTTISH INDIE SCENE, FROM THE MID-80s EXPLOITS OF
THE C86 SCENE, THROUGH BELSHILL AND INTO THE LATE 1990S VIA CHEMIKAL
UNDERGROUND AND FIFE'S DIY MOVEMENT.
STARRING
THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, PRIMAL SCREAM, ARAB
STRAP, SHOP ASSISTANTS, MOGWAI, THE VASELINES, KING CREOSOTE, THE SOUP
DRAGONS, THE DELGADOS, CAMERA OBSCURA, THE ORCHIDS, BMX BANDITS, BIS, THE
BETA BAND
AND MORE.
PACKED WITH HOUSEHOLD NAMES, ESSENTIAL CUTS, UNDERGROUND LEGENDS, LESSER-
KNOWN INDIE GEMS AND FOUR PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS.
COMPLETE WITH ARCHIVAL IMAGERY, BAND BIOGRAPHIES AND GRANT MCPHEE'S INSIGHTFUL
FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT.
Following its blossoming in the post-punk era, by the mid-80s, the Scottish indie scene had
become a sprawling, glorious network of bands, fanzines, club nights and record shops. When
the NME issued its now-mythic ‘C86’ cassette in 1986, Scottish music featured heavily, setting
the tone for a couple of decades of brilliant and eclectic music.
From the noise-pop of The Jesus And Mary Chain and the effortless retro cool of Primal
Scream, through the kawaii stylings of Bis and the sophisticated pop of Belle And Sebastian,
to the dour post rock of Arab Strap and the melting pot eclecticism of The Beta Band,
'Something For The Longing' pulls together a snapshot of that time and place. Compiled
chronologically, this is a story whose narrative takes in familiar faces, mythical scenesters,
bona fide rock gods, singularly minded labels and, above all, the inventive musical exploits of
a nation punching well above its weight.
Complete with a sleevenote essay and band biographies by curator Grant McPhee, archival
imagery and a handful of unreleased recordings provided especially by the artists, 'Something
For The Longing' is a must-hear for fans and collectors of the '80s and '90s indie scenes,
anybody who was there and then, and the Caledophile in your life.
DISC ONE
1. The Jesus And Mary Chain
- You Trip Me Up
2. Shop Assistants - I Don’t
Wanna Be Friends With You
3. Rote Kapelle - These
Animals Are Dangerous
4. The Soup Dragons - Soft As
Your Face
5. The Motorcycle Boy - Big
Rock Candy Mountain
6. Primal Scream - Gentle
Tuesday
7. The Big Gun - Heard About
Love
8. The Thieves - Talk Your
Head Off
9. The Clouds - Get Out Of
My Dream
10. Biff Bang Pow! - He Don’t
Need That Girl
11. The Revolving Paint
Dream - Stop The World
12. The Jasmine Minks - Cut
Me Deep
13. Christine’s Cat - She's
Alive*
14. Baby Lemonade - Much
Too Late
15. The Golden Dawn - My
Secret World
16. The Vaselines - Teenage
Superstar
17. Dawson - Noel Edmonds
18. Stretchheads - A Freakout
19. Badgewearer - Buspass
Conspiracy
20. Spirea X - Chlorine Dream
21. Fenn - Saint's Gate
(Demo)*
22. The Fizzbombs - Blue
Summer
23. The Hardy Boys -
Wonderful Lie
24. Whiteout - The Next Big
Thing
25. The Vultures - You’re Not Scared
DISC TWO
1. The Orchids - Something
For The Longing
2. The Wendys - Enjoy The
Things You Fear
3. Pearlfishers - Sacred
4. BMX Bandits - Serious
Drugs
5. Superstar - Don't Wanna
Die
6. Long Fin Killie - The
Lamberton Lamplighter
7. Whirling Pig Dervish - Whip
8. The Stanleys - Royal Blue*
9. Lung Leg - Punk Pop
Travesty
10. Glue - Modelling
11. Spare Snare - Wired For
Sound
12. Pink Kross - Punk Outfit
13. Lugworm - Sweaty Says
14. The Blisters - Patrick
Meets The Courgettes
15. Trout - Owl In The Tree
16. The Yummy Fur - Typical
Of Boys
17. The Poison Sisters -
Chicane
18. Hee Haw - 6/26
19. Sally Skull - Bride Of
Frankenstein
20. The Luci Baines Band -
Find A Lil Love (Extended)
21. Eska - Running On Sum
Six Dew
22. Country Teasers - Last
Bridge Of Spencer Smith
23. Nostril - Token Song
About Foreign Politics
24. Dick Johnson - Disposable
DISC THREE
1. Arab Strap - The First Big
Weekend
2. The Delgados - Monica
Webster
3. Bis - Keroleen
4. Frank Blake - Plastic Bag
5. Belle And Sebastian - Lazy
Line Painter Jane
6. Urusei Yatsura - Hello
Tiger
7. The Male Nurse - My Own
Private P. Swayze
8. Starstruck - Orange
9. The Starlets - Tainted
10. El Hombre Trajeado -
Logo (Album Version)
11. Gilded Lil - Last Tango In
Tollkross
12. Camera Obscura - Your
Sound
13. Huckleberry - Three-
Speed Wilfred*
14. King Creosote - A Little
Paint
15. The Beta Band - Inner
Meet Me
16. The Amphetameanies -
Last Night
17. V-Twin - Thank You Baby
18. Mogwai - Christmas Steps
*PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
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