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Last month, The Dunts<\/b> were picked as one of our 25 bands to watch in 2019<\/a>, and for a good reason. Fusing together the punk spirit of The Clash and The Sex Pistols with the feverous garage rock of The Strokes and Arctic Monkeys, the Scottish quartet have quickly built a reputation for delivering explosive live shows and frantic urgency across two EP’s.<\/p>\n 2019 has all the makings of being a breakout year for The Dunts<\/b>. With a trip over to Austin, Texas for South By Southwest 2019 alongside appearances at Live at Leeds and Hit The North Festival lined up, you can expect to hear a lot from this Glaswegian four-piece over the coming months.<\/p>\n As their EP titles (‘Self Proclaimed Council Punk’<\/em> and ‘Not Working Is Class’<\/em>) suggests, The Dunts<\/strong>‘ music has a politically inspired tone yet its combined with tongue-in-cheek sensibilities. From finding out about their backstory, it’s easy to see why they’ve taken such an approach.\u00a0Rab Smith, David McFarlane, Colin McGachy and Kyle McGhee are four school friends who grew up on tough council estates, motivated by a headstrong determination to get out there and share a message that has clearly resonated amongst the city’s music scene. With several sold-out hometown\u00a0shows under their belt, they’re part of a thriving punk scene in Glasgow<\/a>.<\/p>\n As the third most populous city\u00a0in the\u00a0United Kingdom, it’s no surprise that Glasgow has a strong historical and cultural background. From its time being one of the leaders in\u00a0shipbuilding\u00a0to being home to several of\u00a0Scotland’s national arts organisations along with numerous music venues (including\u00a0King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, the Barrowland, The Garage, the O2 ABC, the O2\u00a0Academy and Broadcast). And then there’s its sporting history with the\u00a0Old Firm rivalry between Rangers and Celtic being one of the most fierce derbies in football, highlighting the\u00a0political, social, and religious division in the city.<\/p>\n To learn more about life in Glasgow, we spoke to\u00a0The Dunts<\/strong>‘ Rab Smith.<\/p>\n We are from Glasgow, up here in Scotland. There\u2019s a lot of things that make me proud about Glasgow, but I think the amount of complete patter that comes from the city is something to be proud of. Everyone\u2019s always having a laugh in Glasgow and if you\u2019re on Facebook\/Twitter, you can find all sorts of funny shit in terms of Glasgow.<\/i><\/p>\n I’m not really sure what the most distinguished thing the city is famous for is but certainly has a past. You\u2019ve got things like shipbuilding on the Clyde, which meant Glasgow was one of the maritime hubs of the UK – there were a lot of industrial labour workers in the city at the time.<\/i><\/p>\n I guess that generation is our great-grandparents and grandparents, so a lot of the character traits that Glaswegians display today came directly from that industrial generation that lived here before us and their offspring. I’d say a lot of Glaswegians are hardy and robust with a no-nonsense kind of attitude, but very warm and friendly unless you’re being annoying as fuck. Like I said before, it feels like everyone in Glasgow is always up for a laugh so that\u2019s one more character trait.<\/i><\/p>\n It\u2019s hard to comment really, we know what influence it has had on us and some other bands we\u2019re friends with but there\u2019s a lot of bands where we know their songs and we know them as people but we don\u2019t really know much about what their upbringing was like or how it\u2019s contributed or mattered, if at all, to their musical output.<\/i><\/p>\n With us, it\u2019s very clear though, we all came from council schemes and we\u2019ve experienced things like school and childhood from a very Glaswegian perspective – growing up is sometimes tough and especially in Glasgow, you have to fight through it, keep your head straight and focus on the greater goal. So that has hardened us, that kind of resilience we have developed shows in our tunes and a lot of the lyrics are first-hand accounts of situations we\u2019ve been in. <\/i><\/p>\n I\u2019m bias but I\u2019d say punk is one of the main genres associated with the scene going on just now but there\u2019s just so many different types of artists here it\u2019s impossible to pin it to just one.<\/i><\/p>\n
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