Tiny bit of a cheat this week, as all I have on The Girl Who Cried Wolf is are two digitals download, from all the way back in 2020, which I later picked from the vaults via my membership of Last Night From Glasgow.
The duo of Audrey Tait and Lauren Gilmour have been involved in the local music scene for many a year. I first became aware of Audrey when she was part of Hector Bizerk, a Glasgow-based hip-hop act whose debut Nobody Seen Nothing was shortlisted for the Scottish Album of the Year in 2014, although the record itself wasn’t one that appealed to me. She was later to become the drummer with Broken Chanter, playing on the first two albums and being part of the touring band between 2018 and early 2022. She took her leave of Broken Chanter when she was asked to become the new drummer for Franz Ferdinand, replacing the founding member of the band, Paul Thomson.
Lauren Gilmour is a singer-songwriter and producer who I first noticed when she was part of Broken Chanter’s six-piece touring band in 2021/22 for the album Catastrophe Hits. What I never knew until looking further into these downloads is that the two were The Girl Who Cried Wolf, whose intention in making music together was to ‘combine a love of fierce female vocalists and anthemic production to create their own brand of powerful alt pop.’
There were a number of digital releases in 2019 with this being the third single:-
mp3: The Girl Who Cried Wolf – Oops!
I’m wondering if their plans, like those of many others, were affected by the COVID pandemic, as it would certainly have put an end any thoughts of live shows to promote the music. And with Audrey now ridiculously busy with FF, I’m guessing there is no time available to revisit things.
JC
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 