Honey At The Core...

A few weeks back I was sorting out some boxes in the loft when I came across a box that had some old cassettes in it, one of which was a compilation of then up and coming Scottish bands called Honey At The Core...according to Wikipedia it came out in 1986 and was compiled by John Williamson who later went on to work for The Herald newspaper....

J.C.over at The Vinyl Villain has posted on this very cassette previously alongside a wealth of postings on great Scottish bands of past and present....

Bands on the cassette included a few that went on to moderate success like The Big Dish , Goodbye Mr McKenzie and Deacon Blue , as well as a certain band that spent 15 weeks at number 1 in the UK singles chart and a certain host of the Late Late Show in his former alter ego of Bing Hitler.

Personal faves on the cassette are a couple of bands that should have went on to greater heights but never quite got there....Kick Reaction and The Painted Word

The Painted Word released their first single, the classic Independance Day,back in '86...it took a further 3 years before their one and only released album, Lovelife, saw the light of day...I had a copy of the album at the time but sadly seemed to have lost it somewhere over the years....but I do recall it being a piece of Scottish pop perfection...there was a second album in '95 called Universal but it appears to have been withdrawn before it even hit the shops...vocalist Alan McCusker Thomson was one of the best singer/songwriters of that time and today lectures on commercial music at West Of Scotland University....

I can't remember where I got the cassette from back in the day but it is yet another example of the wealth of musical talent that has emerged from Scotland over the last 30 years or so and continues to emerge to this day...