This blog has given me an opportunity to introduce
readers to some of Glasgow’s most exciting new bands – from Majestic Dandelion
and Dirty Sally to Gogobot – and I have one more band to point the spotlight
at: The Riveras.
This five-piece indie rock
band consists of Ben Smith (vocals), Scott Whitehall (guitar), Gary McCrossan
(guitar, vocals), Calum Purse (bass, vocals) and Martyn McInnes (drums, vocals).
The band sees their style to be a mixture of garage rock, new-wave and
post-punk.
You can hear that the band
have incorporated influences from throughout the decades of legendary British
guitar music – from iconic groups such as The Beatles and The Smiths to punk
bands like The Jam and Gang of Four – into short, lively three minute bursts
like Job Seeking and Electric Lines.
In 1970, John Lennon said
that “the best stuff is primitive enough and has no bullshit. It gets through
to you; it got through to me, the only thing to get through to me of all the
things that were happening when I was 15.”
This is exactly what The
Riveras are trying to do – they aren’t trying to reinvent guitar music, but
like all great bands they take the music that influenced them and write their
own songs that relate to a new generation of music fans.
This band have all the
ingredients to become successful but the number of bands with potential who
break up before their time outweighs the bands who make it – we can only hope
that The Riveras get the chance to make that next step and fully establish
themselves as one of Glasgow’s best new bands.
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