The Uncle Devil Show

Glasgow's finest; the exemplary pop trio, THE UNCLE DEVIL SHOW, released their long awaited debut album, A TERRIBLE BEAUTY, on the independent guitar-driven P3 Music records label in 2004. In this milieu of ineptitude and ephemeral oddities, one finds oneself craving honest-to-goodness quality - which is why it's such a natural gas to welcome THE UNCLE DEVIL SHOW to the world stage.

The pop business evolves at a hurly-burly rate in today's jet age, no-time-for-tiffin world. If you haven't been to a nightspot for some time, don't be surprised should you venture out and discover to your horror that there's now a gentleman with not one but two gramophones where the bandstand used to be. And they can't even play the discs properly anymore; they keep on scratching them, putting them on at inappropriate speeds, even somehow contriving to play them back-to-front, in God's name.

The bands name was inspired by 'The Uncle Devil Show', a 10-minute episode that originally aired on US television in 1985 as part of the The New Twilight Zone TV series. The plot focused on a boy, whose parents, unaware the hallucinogenic video he is watching, conjures up bizarre magic tricks that transform them into lizards, and his dog into a four-eyed freak of nature.

Langton Herring, Jason Barr and Terrence are more than just another bunch of trendsetters aiming their pop arrows at the sun. Even though all three are Scotch, they bring a universal message of intolerance and insularity which transcends all barriers.

Not everyone digs the way they wear their hair - but then not everyone unused to a life of dignified manual labour knows how to dig properly. THE UNCLE DEVIL SHOW does. These handsome rakes are the aces of spades. They're hoes who are seriously bitchin'. They're earthy sods, and this is sweet soil music. Mulch ado about something!



Don't actually believe what you're hearing? ExamineTHE UNCLE DEVIL SHOW'S 'witty and succinct' lyrics letter by letter at lyricwiki (warning: some of the letters are French)

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