Tony from Blitzrieg’s favourite Glasgow album

Goodbye Mr McKenzie’s Good Deeds and Dirty Rags is Tony from Blitzriegs favourite Glasgow album.

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00:00This is the reissue of Goodbye Mr Mackenzie, Good Deeds and Dirty Rags. I started working

00:06with the band in 2009 as Filthy Tongues from Edinburgh and I was a massive fan of the band

00:12from back in the day. I was a big Goodbye Mr Mackenzie fan and I couldn't actually believe

00:17that I'd met them at an event and we ended up going full circle and getting the record back

00:22again. I issued it and we licensed it from Universal Music and I've got my own record

00:29label as well and this was probably the last record that we've put out on it. There will be

00:34more in future. I hope to see Blitzkrieg be able to take over and put out some new releases of

00:41young bands because since 2004 I've been involved in Neen Tetra. So that in itself is a great record

00:48that featured a few pretty famous people as well including Big John Duncan who was not only in the

00:57punk band Exploited but he was Kurt Cobain's guitar tech and a young fresh looking 18 year old

01:03Shirley Manson who is the singer in the band Garbage, the American band Garbage and she's a

01:10very very well known actor now and actress in America. The Glasgow music scene has always been

01:17very important. Glasgow has a different kind of stables of different types of artists you know so

01:25from right back at the start from when Alex Harvey was doing his thing in the Barrowland up there

01:30and you know as a big band you know as a kind of rock and roller and we've come on full pelt and

01:37we've had so many important bands like Aztec Camera, The Skids, Big Country, just so many

01:44orange juice. We've always punched above our weight with regards to content for musical bands

01:51and I'm a massive fan of Scottish music so I think you know of all genres from pop to rock to

02:01soul to you know even hip-hop we've done it all and it's really great to see all the

02:08bands that are coming through now apparently are punk orientated you know you've got bands like

02:15you know you've got Snatched, you've got quite a few bands like Soapbox and Valour and stuff

02:23like that they're all they're all reminiscent of bands that I remember seeing back in the day

02:28in the pubs and in the clubs in Glasgow.