SCENES (The original inspiration behind DAMASCENE)

A book called Scenes

This was an ambitious venture, an eclectic mix of electro, spoken word and Scotland's favourite underground band.

The book produced was called SCENES and documented, sometimes directly sometimes in an obtuse way, the goings on around the Scottish music scene of the early and mid 1980's.

A time of musical factions, cults and youth tribes and a time that also was the stalking ground of Hullah, Metcalfe, various Mackenzies and a myriad of other characters.

Looking back it felt rose tinted but there was pain in that Bohemia, pain that birthed an art that still lives on in the recordings of the groups who dominated those nightclubs.

Some of them went on to great things, some of them not so much.

One version of the book came with a 10" vinyl album **, the other with a CD **, featuring 6 tracks including from The Filthy Tongues and Hullah, with some additional music from Derek Kelly.

** The Damascene CD is not the music listed above.