STRATHAVEN: FRETS / The Strathaven Hotel

Friday 7th June, 2024

7:00pm

Event information

We are delighted to announce that The Pearlfishers will be performing a special FRETS:ALBUM CONCERT at the Strathaven Hotel on Friday 7th June. David Scott will be leading the group through a live concert launch of the new Pearlfishers album (released on the wonderful Marina record label). The album is called Making Tapes For Girls, and it's up there with the best of Scott's work - literate pop at its finest. The Pearlfishers will perform the album in its entirety before playing some of their best loved songs.

The Kingfishers will be opening the show with a one-off FRETS:ALBUM CONCERT performance of their 'Reflections in a Silver Sound' album released via Creeping Bent/Last Night From Glasgow.

“The Pearlfishers’ David Scott stumbled upon the songwriting secret known only to a few celebrated figures in the mid-1960s – Paul McCartney, Jimmy Webb, Brian Wilson.”
(THE SUNDAY TIMES)

“The Pearlfishers’ delicate songs recall the lush, literate creations of Prefab Sprout.” (Q)

After a hiatus of five years, The Pearlfishers, Glasgow’s finest, return with their ninth album for Marina – most probably their best and most immediate one so far.

Driven by main man David Scott’s exceptional songwriting and sophisticated arrangements, Making Tapes For Girls is a goldmine of pop gems – full of witty & colourful lyrics about the affirmative & healing power of music and pop escapism. The title track evokes memories of those days of compiling a C-30/60/90 for your loved one or secretly adored one: “I didn’t know how to say the right thing / So I left it to Joni and Paul…”. Those mix tapes that came straight from your heart & soul – “the nub of it, the truth of it, the ‘you’ of it.” It is another Pearlfishers classic in the vein of My Dad The Weatherfan and Even On A Sunday Afternoon. All of these 12 new tracks could have made it easily onto such a tape.

Most of the album was recorded at La Chunky Studios in Glasgow where everything is vintage – from an old Ludwig kit, old Wurlitzer electric piano and Fender Rhodes keyboards to tons of vintage microphones and compressors. It made a big stamp on the overall sound to an album which is most probably the best one by The Pearlfishers yet.