| Red Kola Livin' Room Rock'n'Roll Rantin' Sonsie an' Free Kirk Ha' Jig |
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| This was
the first release by the Fearties as a four man band. It was planned as
a 7" single but the band couldn't afford it so it was made on cassette!
500 copies were made and it quickly sold out! All four tracks were rereleased
on the 'Greatest Hits" CD SKUD on the French label JivaRock. Davy Wiseman sings and plays acoustic and electric guitars, Stephen Wiseman plays percussion, moothie, banjolin, and 'raps' on track 3, Allan Feartie plays bass and talks on track 2, Michael Feartie plays fiddle and squeeze box . Red Kola was recorded in "Shabby Road" Studio which was owned by the Trashcan Sinatras - It was produced by Larry Primrose. The opening section was recorded at the Dunlop Kirk Hall (using their old piano). This was the venue for the recording of Kirk Ha' Jig and the music for Rantin' (the vocals were overdubbed in Shabby Rd. Livin Room Rock'n'Roll was recorded in Allans Livin' Room on a 4 track cassette. The screams at the end were taken from Twin Peaks and the interview was from a radio appearence on La Stampa Radio in Harlem, Holland (1990) where Stephen was asked a variety of questions and all he could answer was "Yer askin' the wrong guy!" Red Kola was championed as an alternative Scots national anthem by Radio Scotland DJ Pete Easton! The Fearties were struggling to find suitable lyrics for the tune and were sitting around drinking Red Kola (a peculiar Scottish fizzy drink). REM had recently released 'Orange Crush' and so the Fearties responded by calling their song Red Kola. It is partly a tribute to the fizzy drink, partly about the colonising of Scotland by the English and Americans (the US still had a formidable military prescense in the west of Scotland at the time the song was written) and partly about the longing many ex-patriot Scots have for the strange Scottish delicacies they can't get abroad such as Red Kola, sliced sausage, tattie scones etc! The music was written by Davy Wiseman and the lyrics by Davy, Stephen and Allan. Red Kola - Nyah Fearties 1993 The Speyside water and the streams of Knockshinnoch, It's the Heilan spring water that gies the quality tae Mau't. Fae the Hills o' Loch Winnoch, tae the streets o' Auchinleck... The Luggie is flowin' yet! Cop shows, burger bars and American Cream Soda, take them oot an' droon them in a sea o' Pepsi Cola! They swallowed up oor land in the name o' Geordie Bush... He couldnae keep his piggie little eyes aff oor SKOOSH! Salmon farms an' Sitka Spruce, the white settlers are intae. The Queen's no goat blue blood - her veins are fu' o' Vimto! Fae the gutters down in Whitehall, tae the drainpipes in Vauxhall, You can hear the voice of ex-patriots calll RED KOLA! RED KOLA RED KOLA Guts are dyed wi'! Guts are dyed wi'!
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