Roster

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National Playboys are an alternative rock / post-punk group based in Edinburgh Scotland.

This underground musical collective was formed by frontman Kyle McFarlane in the winter of 2022. Adopting a Doorsian approach to vocals and songwriting, he shares similarities to influences ranging from the likes of David Bowie, Ian Curtis and Jim Morrison.

Marrying the bleak baritone vocals is former Book Klub guitarist Ewen Kerr, providing an eerie guitar tone and adding a blanket of gloom over the group’s songs. In the vein of the energetic outputs of the late 70s and early 80s new wave and punk scene, Dave Reed (formally of Nasari) takes on the engine room as bassist for the group.

Adding to the Playboys’ line-up in 2024 is Anna Trost of Puppy Teeth, providing her expertise on guitar/synth/vocals and Megan Pollock of Cowboy Hunters behind the drums.

(For fans of artists such as Fontaines D.C., King Krule, The Doors, IDLES, Radiohead, Joy

Division, Fat White Family, Nirvana, Gurriers & Viagra Boys.)

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Gary’s Rainbow Shop’s sound is one of sonic

familiarity and measured risk-taking, with big riffs and catchy choruses efficiently packed into huge sounding songs littered with hooks and sprinkled with prog elements.

Drawing influence from bands like Biffy Clyro, Alter Bridge and Soundgarden, the 4-piece Scottish rock outfit are at the beginning of their journey

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Moonlight Zoo emerged in 2016, leaving their hometown of Dunfermline to cut their musical teeth busking around the streets of Europe. The band honed their sound on the pavement, learning to sing in a three-part harmony and play with ferocious aggression in order to cut through the noise of the city, before returning to Scotland to take their unique brand of alternative anthemic pop to the big stage. Heavily influenced by Scottish rockers Big Country, Moonlight Zoo borrow their anthemic Celtic elements of their hometown heroes and infuse it with a modern pop twist inspired by artists like Haim.  

Since forming, Moonlight Zoo have taken their wild live shows to every corner of the UK and performed at major festivals including Isle of Wight, TRNSMT, and Kendal Calling.  

Their first single ‘Breaking or Broken’ was Radio X’s track of the week and called: “The best debut we have heard since Blossoms burst onto the scene” by THIS FEELING.  

Follow up single “Wild” was a BBC One Scotland single of the week and led to the band selling out King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut and touring nationally. 

2019 was the bands biggest year to date as they made it through multiple heats to be crowned champions of Hard Rock Café’s International Battle of The Bands after playing for a host of industry experts at the Paramount Theatre in Times Square NY.  

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