SATURDAY’S SCOTTISH SONG : #387: THE YUMMY FUR

From wiki:-

“The Yummy Fur were a Scottish indie rock band from Glasgow, formed in 1992, and disbanded 1999. The band consisted of lead singer and guitarist John McKeown and a regularly changing line-up of other musicians.  McKeown has since gone on to form the band 1990s. Their name was taken from the comic book Yummy Fur by Chester Brown.

After leaving the band in 1997, Lawrence Worthington would drum for both The Male Nurse and The Fall-influenced art punk band Country Teasers.

Three future members of internationally successful Glasgow indie band Franz Ferdinand played in The Yummy Fur. Drummer Paul Thomson who joined the band in 1997, and multi-instrumentalist Alex Kapranos Huntley, who joined in 1998, were founder members of Franz Ferdinand, and Dino Bardot would join Franz Ferdinand as guitarist in 2017 to replace Nick McCarthy”

The disbandment of Yummy Fur came after keyboard player Mark Gibbons committed suicide, and it was at that point that Kapranos and Thomson, along with McCarthy and Bob Hardy, formed Franz Ferdinand.

Despite a discography consisting of two albums and seven singles, I’ve just the one track by Yummy Fur, and it was their contribution to the Glasgow EP, released on the Plastic Cowboy label back in 2000. It was one of a series issued by the label in which they took four singers/bands from a city or region and put out 2 x 7″ singles in a sleeve that had some very weird images of each place. The Glasgow EP was followed by efforts from Liverpool, Oxford, Essex and Tokyo.

mp3: The Yummy Fur – Shivers

JC