In Deepest darkest south Lanarkshire, Scotland, 20 minutes train ride to the culturally rich yet economically challenged city of Glasgow. Three teenage boys lived a parallel existence 6 miles from each other. During the late 80’s early 90’s Studying record sleeves, picking up instruments and exploring their inner selves through music the three formed their ideas and dreams

Neil and Stuart first played together in a band called “The Harpers” where Stuart played guitar and Neil played percussion. This is where they met Gary who worked the bar where the band played. Then, after playing drums and recording an album on the Rocket 5 label with the criminally unheralded, talent and song-laden under-acheivers “ The Hucksters”, Neil soon left to join  ‘Superstar’ where he played drums, and sang lots of harmonies.  Superstar had some success with the first album released on Alan McGee’s’ Creation records. Then, after a bloated budget and big label shenanigans, a follow up was recorded but never released. During Neils drumming years Stuart and Gary ventured down a different path immersing themselves in dance music culture and clubland.the pair invested in samplers, drum machines, analog synths and computers and played records around the Glasgow clubs

Stuart and Gary while seeking inspiration in the liquid form bumped into Neil who having had enough of being ‘only the drummer’ had left Superstar and was living out a meagre yet strangely rewarding and sometimes colourful existence in a bed-sit in Glasgow with an acoustic guitar, a microphone and an old 4-track, Neil was sleeping during the day and writing and recording songs through the night.

The three got together and started recording and producing their unique sound, Gary moves to Australia to live and is joined by Neil the pair finish off some songs and compile ‘The Trials and Tribulations’ from the output so far. Neil is asked to leave Australia by the authorities for being too lazy or something, and he comes back to the UK, He eventually ends up in France and recording is carried on sporadically whenever any of the three happened to be in the same room, tapes and files are sent in the post and over the interweb and a new record starts to emerge Gary and Neil both come back to the UK to finish off the new material and ‘The Northern Summer’ is Born.

The three are currently swapping ideas and songs for the next instalment, Stay Tuned...