Up for a Bit with The Pastels | ||||
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Released | January 1987 | |||
Recorded | September 1986, W.S.R.S. Leamington Spa | |||
Genre | Indie pop | |||
Length | 31:47 | |||
Label | Glass Records Paperhouse | |||
Producer | John A. Rivers | |||
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Up for a Bit with The Pastels is the debut album by the Scottish band The Pastels, released in 1987. It was named the 37th best Scottish album by The Scotsman. [2]
The Pastels are an independent music group from Glasgow, formed in 1981. They were a key act of the UK independent music scene of the 1980s. The group currently consists of Stephen McRobbie, Katrina Mitchell, Gerard Love, John Hogarty (guitar), Tom Crossley, and Alison Mitchell (trumpet).
The Scotsman is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh. First established as a radical political paper in 1817, it began daily publication in 1855 and remained a broadsheet until August 2004. Its parent company, JPIMedia, also publishes the Edinburgh Evening News. As of February 2017, it had an audited print circulation of 19,449, with a paid-for circulation of 88.3% of this figure, about 17,000. Its website, Scotsman.com, had an average of 138,000 unique visitors a day as of 2017. The title celebrated its bicentenary on 25 January 2017.
All songs written by Stephen McRobbie, except where noted.
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