![]() ![]() 9 and most recently The Sexual Objects and Port Sulphur as well as run the prolific Creeping Bent label, has dug deep into his address book for the FRETS concerts which take place about once a month. ![]() Guitarist MacIntyre, who has worked as a session musician and played with dozens of bands including the Nectarine No. Since then MacIntyre, who was brought up in Strathaven and moved back there after years living in Glasgow and London, has single-handedly done much for its tourist industry, bringing visitors into its few coffee shops and restaurants and above all the twenty-two bedroom country house hotel where the gigs take place. Until Douglas MacIntyre, however, brought Lloyd Cole there in 2019 in the first of his series of FRETS concerts, gigs in Strathaven were confined though to those by Saturday night pub performers. Scottish music hall star Harry Lauder lived much of his life in Strathaven, and there was a recording studio there in the 1970s and 1980s where both Orange Juice and Aztec Camera made early recordings. The picturesque large village/small town lies seventeen miles south of Glasgow in rural South Lanarkshire. Strathaven is not the most obvious place for a gig. ![]()
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