Lanarkshire band Glass Raspberry showcases fruits of its labours with debut single – Daily Record

Lanarkshire band Glass Raspberry has released its first single but members admit they're missing one thing.

Coronavirus restrictions mean the four-piece still haven't played a gig, and the group cannot wait to get onstage.

"It's been strange" admits their bassist Michael Farrell.

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"We formed the band at the end of 2019, and we were just starting to sort out some shows when the pandemic started and everything stopped.

"So we have only had the online reaction to our music and we've only had a few releases so far. We can't wait to play gigs."

The quartet are hoping to be onstage soon, having just released the tracks Walk With Me and Getaway on streaming platforms. Walk With Me's intense slice of indie rock, all propulsive guitar and ethereal vocals, is suitably anthemic, and an impressive way to introduce the band.

Michael and guitarist Paul Curran, who both hail from East Kilbride, had been aiming to kickstart Glass Raspberry for a while, but the group only clicked into place when they met Rebecca Burns, a Cambuslang singer who works as a teacher at Duncanrig Secondary in East Kilbride and who had never been in a band before.

She explained: "We met through friends, and they'd seen videos of me singing online. So I guess they headhunted me after that, which was cool. We met up and got on really well, and everything with the band just seemed to go really easily from there."

The group is completed by drummer Tamas Peto, and Michael believes the band benefits from having a mix of styles and interests.

He explained: "There's only really a couple of bands like Oasis that we all agree on. We all have really different interests and we bring that into the band.

"So Paul loves funk, Tamas is into heavy metal, I love bands like New Order, The Smiths and The Sex Pistols and Rebecca really likes soul singers. It's good for the band to mix it up."

The group have got more studio time booked for later this summer and are hoping to work on an album, while another two new songs are scheduled to come out next month.

More information on Glass Raspberry can be found here while Walk With Me and Getaway are available on platforms such as Spotify and Bandcamp now.

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