Old punk venue to get an airing on veteran presenter's radio show

The story of Paisley’s legendary punk rock mecca, The Bungalow Bar, is about to get some main publicity when the author who printed a e book concerning the venue is interviewed for a well-liked radio present that's syndicated around the globe.

Amazingly, a uncommon demo single that was written and recorded by Kilbarchan writer Loudon Temple, will even get its first ever play on radio precisely fifty years after it was initially produced.

The demo single recorded by the band Lordy, had lain hidden in a field of 7-inch 45rpm information for nearly forty years. It got here to mild when Temple was invited to be a studio visitor on John Cavanagh’s Soundwave present this Saturday, March 5, from 8am.

Paisley band Saigon will even get an airing throughout the interview.

Extremely revered for varied music-related programmes he produced for the BBC, Cavanagh needed to interview oudon concerning the books he wrote and printed throughout the pandemic, when unable to proceed to advertise occasions himself by way of the Brookfield-Knights company which he ran till Covid

'The Music Goes Spherical And Spherical' took a glance again to the Scottish music scene of the 60s and 70s, when Loudon was lead vocalist in varied bands together with The Diamonds, The Ceiling Mild Machine and Lordy.

The 2-song demo single, which was captured on four-track reel-to-reel tape in 1972, had been misplaced and believed to be gone endlessly.

Old Paisley punks - Saigon
Previous Paisley punks - Saigon (Picture: Loudon Temple)

Loudon revealed: "It was a rarity as we solely ever had half a dozen acetates pressed to ship out to file labels on the time.

"An acetate is an aluminium-based urgent with a lightweight lacquer coating they usually develop into very crackly in a short time.

"I dug out information akin to Morning Dew by Tim Rose and Three Canine Evening& Liar, and it was then I discovered the outdated Lordy demo lurking proper on the again."

That file get its first radio airing in fifty years throughout Cavanagh's Soundwave present on www.radiosix.com

Loudon added: "It is as primary as a demo could be and it is superb that it has resurfaced in any case this time."

Words and music man - Loudon Temple
Phrases and music man - Loudon Temple (Picture: Loudon Temple)

Cavanagh has really useful his publications, and throughout the present he discusses his involvement with The Bungalow Bar in Paisley, the place Loudon booked all the bands within the late ‘70s.

Cavanagh stated: "These are two extremely pleasant books. It is a effective factor to convey factual element into context and kind out some myth-busting too, all within the type of some nice rock & roll tales."

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