Extreme Listening Mode!

The latest in our series of promising new acts coming out of Scotland.

Rock music is, ineffably, a young man’s game. It’s all BJ’s and binge drinking in the back of a van, chasing a dream fired by your own passion and belief.

Callow youth has its advantages. There’s an immediacy and a genuine sense of ‘anything can happen’ when you hear a new band with that feeling.

That’s not to say those of us further down the road to our inevitable parting of the ways from this mortal coil can’t bring something to the party – it’s tough to be knowing at 20 – but still, you feel you can’t be stopped when you’re young, as Paul Weller once said.

Vigo Thieves are one of those bands.

A very Scottish mix of influences, they take the guitar rock so beloved of crowds North of Hadrian’s Wall and inject it with vigour and some seriously whistleable tunes. Their debut single ‘Won’t You Be Mine’ is out November 16^th and is well worth your attention. They’ve been gaining some press for their live shows, dynamic blasts through the sort of stuff Oasis used to write but are too old and too bloated to do properly anymore.

For those who like their music spiky but heartfelt, full of honesty and complete with the visceral thrill of unlimited possibility, here’s a band who have it in spades.

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