The Phantom Band

Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival 2011 - Beauly, Inverness, 5-6 Aug

Newcomers prove themselves at summer festival highlight

30 Aug 2011

Selling out in record time once again, this year's Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival put up a good fight against the weekend's floods to deliver arguably its best instalment to date. Mule-packed with a dizzying array of arts performances, from the…

The Phantom Band and Lucky Me pick 2011 music festival highlights

Modeselektor, Bronto Skylift, Ango and Machinedrum among picks

30 May 2011

Found We toured with them recently and they blew me away every night I saw them. Great music by a great bunch of lads, I’ll be around singing my heart out to this. T in the Park Echo and the Bunnymen I stole my brother Joe’s tape of Songs to…

Eight Scottish acts set for T in the Park 2011

Big Country, Jon Fratelli, Twin Atlantic and Emma’s Imagination added to bill

4 May 2011

Scottish music festival T in the Park has added Big Country, Jon Fratelli, Roddy Woomble, Twin Atlantic, Emma’s Imagination, The Phantom Band, Found and Jack Townes to the 2011 bill. Idlewild frontman Roddy Woomble will be performing solo, coinciding…

The Hot 100 2010 - Mark Millar, Kevin Bridges and Alasdair Gray take top 3 spots

Our annual chart of the people from Scotland being interesting, successful and creative

16 Dec 2010

The Hot 100 is a list of Scots who’ve made a sizeable creative splash in 2010. It includes musicians, artists, writers, actors, fashion designers, technological innovators, shop owners, festival directors, record label heads and one mad cyclist.

The Phantom Band take The Wants on UK tour

Glasgow Krautrock/alt.folk splicers play Glasgow Oran Mor show

16 Nov 2010

Glasgow Krautrock/alt.folk splicers The Phantom Band have arguably bettered their 2009 end of year lists-scaling debut Checkmate Savage with their sophomore set The Wants, which is among the most critically-acclaimed albums of 2010 according to review…

Fruit Tree Foundation launches new album tackling themes of mental health

Alasdair Roberts, James Yorkston, Scott Hutchison and others record album

22 Sep 2010

Sons and Daughters. Frightened Rabbit. The Phantom Band. Norman Blake. Perhaps because it sets out to encourage discussion of problems nearly everyone has come into contact with at some point in their lives, the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film…

Autumn highlights: The best albums and gigs from Scottish bands

The Phantom Band, The Twilight Sad and Errors set for action

16 Sep 2010

The Phantom Band Chemikal Underground’s finest, most eclectic and most likely signings of recent years return with the follow-up to last year’s debut Checkmate Savage. The Wants is released on Chemikal Underground, Mon 18 Oct. The Scottish…

The Phantom Band, 1990s and Astral Planes set for Commercial Alternative festival

24 Jun 2010

This debut festival outing takes place at the lovely Mono Café Bar, and has a cracking line-up for £20. This gets you a full day of performances, including a great Scottish contingent of The Phantom Band, 1990s, Astral Planes, Remember Remember, Golden…

Chemikal Underground in Celtic Connections showcase

20 Jan 2010

Celtic Connections throw another leftfield curve ball with this showcase from Glasgow independent record label Chemikal Underground, and featuring a line-up of quirky indie with a folky bent in the shape of The Phantom Band, The Unwinding Hours, Lord…

Alasdair Roberts, The Low Anthem and Buffy Sainte-Marie set for Celtic Connections

7 Jan 2010

With Alasdair Roberts, The Low Anthem and Buffy Sainte-Marie all featuring, the Celtic Connections festival just keeps going from strength to strength, says Ninian Dunnett

10 for 2010: The Phantom Band

7 Jan 2010

The brilliance of last year’s Checkmate Savage shot these ‘proto-robofolk’-ers straight into our Hot 100. Here’s hoping that, after various name changes, they’re going to stay TBP long enough to promote this year’s new album.

Labels of love: Chemikal Underground

4 Dec 2009

Based in: Glasgow. Roster: The Phantom Band, Lord Cut-Glass, Emma Pollock, The Unwinding Hours, Adrian Crowley, Zoey Van Goey, Aidan Moffat, Angil and the Hiddentracks, The Radar Brothers. Bosses: Set up in 1995 by the four members of…

Keser - Robo_Ghost

13 Nov 2009

(Alex Tronic) This has all the hallmarks of a plush, textured, guitar-rock album – only, it’s not ’97, and they’re not Mogwai, nor Orbital. Keser are two instrumentalists, programmers (Kevan Whitley & Gavin Clark) on a mission to recreate…

Scottish Style Awards

Sophie Ellis-Bextor presents the design awards

15 Oct 2009

It had better not be Murder on the Dancefloor (oh yes, I think you see what we did there) at oor annual fashion awards this year, as angular style icon Sophie Ellis-Bextor takes on the hosting duties, with this year’s lads-most-likely-to, The Phantom…

5 reasons to go and see: Tartan Heart Festival - Belladrum 2009

29 Jul 2009

1: The best new music in Scotland. Now in its sixth year, this perfectly formed Highland shindig outside Inverness has always been a champion of new Scottish music. This year is no exception, with The Phantom Band, Dananananakroyd, Unicorn Kid, St…

Fence Collective's Homegame: Homeward bound

16 Apr 2009

In the ever-growing Scottish music festival calendar, the Homegame remains something of a well-kept secret. Despite a steadily increasing profile since its inception six years ago, the weekend, run by Fence Collective head honchos Kenny Anderson (aka…

The Phantom Band

19 Feb 2009

The Phantom Band are a riddle wrapped in a mystery wrapped inside an enigma. OK, they’re not really, they’re just six guys living in Glasgow making music, but as their ephemeral name suggests there is something shadowy and unfathomable about both the…

Preview 2009 - Local talent

8 Jan 2009

MUSIC: The Phantom Band We’ve been tipping this Glasgow sextet, who make what’s most succinctly described as ‘experimental krautrock’, for greatness for a wee while now. Their debut album Checkmate Savage lands in late January, fresh off the Chemikal…

The Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage

8 Jan 2009

ROCK For years the Chemikal triumvirate of The Delgados, Arab Strap and Mogwai dominated Scottish indie, but more recently the label has struggled to find a seminal band to soundtrack the future. On this evidence, they’ve found them. The Phantom Band…

The Burst Noel Christmas Party

11 Dec 2008

Like microwaveable turkey dinners, borderline alcoholism and falling out with your siblings, Malcolm Middleton is in danger of becoming something of an unhappy seasonal institution. The ex-Arab Strap guitarist’s bid for a Christmas number one last…

Exposure -The Phantom Band

13 Nov 2008

The latest in a long line of great discoveries by Chemikal Underground Records, Glasgow sextet The Phantom Band mash a coarse mix of influences – Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Can and the theme to Crocodile Dundee among them – into a fine experimental…

The Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival

2 Oct 2008

‘Anyone can suffer from mental health issues, regardless of your walk of life,’ says Idlewild’s Rod Jones, curator of a music evening during the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival. ‘It’s something I really wanted to get involved in. It’s…

Exposure - The Sauchiehall Crawl

22 May 2008

For most of us, spending a night crawling down Sauchiehall Street is not an entirely new concept, but add 11 bands in three different venues for the price of one ticket to the equation, and you’ve got something pretty special. Created by Rooftop…

The Phantom Band

8 May 2008

ROCK Is This Music? @ 13th Note, Glasgow, Thu 17 Apr Back in early 2005, few people were shouting about Mother and the Addicts, ditto De Rosa in early 2006, yet both of these bands went on to promptly release cracking debut albums through Chemikal…