How would we describe his music? Well, it's RAW, unusual, NOISY, experimental, MENTAL, challenging and FANTASTIC! Is it Folk Music? Is it Folk! Junkman's Choir may be at the vanguard of new, exciting folk music but Mr Luggs takes all styles and mashes them into a big bowl of musical stovies* served piping hot with a wee dram of Islay's best! There are elements of Scottish traditional music but it's served up with punk guitars, wild drumming, reggae basslines and vocal pyrotechnics that will leave you either stunned or laughing or disturbed!!! *Stovies; a Scottish dish similar to 'hot-pot', where anything can go into the pot! : LUGGNESS : TRACKS : 01. Dafty Duck From the 2006 7" single. This is the bluegrass side of Mr Luggs (he is an excellent banjo player) Listen to Dafty Duck - this is the most mainstream track on the record!!! 02. Rattlin, Roarin' Wullie This is about as close as Mr Luggs gets to traditional Scottish Folk music. The lyrics for this may, or may not, have been written by Rabbie Burns, the Scottish National Bard. Listen to Rattlin Wullie 03. Pick Your Eyes A complete change of style! The Bass and Drums are to the fore in this trippy dance track... and that is the daughter of Mr Luggs on vocals! 04. Miss Maverick Originally on Mr Luggs' 2nd album "Tea Time Listening." This is a strange Scots poem... with banjos! 05. Happy in My Hut This was the stand-out track from "Tea Time Listening," it's a big beefy pop song. Listen out for the crazy guitar break half way through! 06. Inst ANT An instumental break, leading up to... 07. Import ANT A sermon on the dangers of buying cheap alcohol! 08. Chickens Mr Luggs exposes his poetry... 09. Heeby Deep This is the classic song from Callugula (where it was called Schmaldaheidh, also released as Neeby Deep on the 2006 7" single. Now it's remixed and edited into a smappy punk rocker. Who knows what Mr Luggs is singing about? We don't! 10. Nich Der Fugg Traten Spending a few years living and working in Germany has influenced this song... Whats a Fugg? We don't know! 11. Don't Kick the Fugg We could hardly contain the power of Mr Luggs drums on this one! The snare drum is like a rifle shot to the head. Our technical boffins could't compress the sounds so we have left it distorted... hope your speakers can handle it! 12. Ukranian Girls Back to Tea Time Listening for this jangling pop song about meeting some alcohol fueled females!!! 13. Baister Luggs A quick instrumental knocked out of a half sized acoustic bass. 14. Livin' Oan the Brink Another song from Tea Time Listening, this is quite a poignant ballad! 15. Depressed Accordian led blues with interjections by Mr Luggs about the state of his home town! 16. Musique Magique. In 2004 Mr Luggs was commisioned by a Magic Theatre in France to compose some music to accompany their show. Given a free hand as to style and content, Mr Luggs went crazy and with the help of two ex members of Nyah Fearties he produced 17mins of magical mayhem. Five short slices of music creating one huge pie! It ranges from swampy surf music to disco hillbilly via percussive thrash to classical string quartets! You will love it, and you can hear the sounds of women being sawn in half and rabbits being pulled from hats!!! Hilarious!!!
	ROUGH MUSIC AND ROUGHER PACKAGING!!! The Luggness CD comes in a special spray painted digipack wallet with deluxe colour photo inserts... a beautiful package! Click the pic to hear "Rattlin', Roarin' Wullie"
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Mr. Luggs "Tea Time Listening" CD From Topplers, the torch-bearers of the modern UK DIY scene, comes Mr. Luggs, also of the Junkman's Choir. Pulling together Scottish ranting, bagpipes, and weird jams, while throwing out what one might consider a song, this Scotsman comes up with something that is certainly punk, in his determination to stand at the margins and wave his cock at the crowd. Maybe this is the demented stepbrother of the Country Teasers, a thing that owes more to Celtic jigs than the Fall. It is certainly not the ol' 1-2-3-4 with distorted guitar and backbeat. In fact, as a whole I really can't figure out what this is other than one guy's take on what his idea of music is. In that way, this totally fits into the spirit, if not sound of Mr. Luggs' DIY forefathers. Great while sober and I'd imagine even better drunk.(SSR)

Mr Luggs - Neeby Deep Ma Gubboch 7" + CDR (Topplers)
Mr Luggs is my fave Topplers artist. Not only is there no one like him on the label, I haven't heard anyone play music like he does. The closest I can describe him is a Celtic Butthole Surfers but that really isn't close. Let's just agree that Mr Luggs plays a mean fiddle and he is quite a man of his own. For those of you who dig the stranger stuff that I pimp, go for it. (Scot Sorianno, S-S Records)

Mr. Luggs - Neeby Deep Ma Gubboch 7" (Topplers) My black heart warms whenever the postman brings me a package with Topplers as the return address. And this time a few inches of tar melted upon removing this 3 song lathe cut 7" from the package. Mr Luggs has released two great CDs on Topplers and other stuff with the Nyah Fearties and the Junkmen's Choir. These three songs are in the same vein as those on Luggs' CDs, a combination of bluegrass, found sounds, experimental DIY punk, and Scot weirdness. Call this a bog stomper's take on Eugene Chadbourne's C&W LSD and I wouldn't argue. It has the same kind of playfulness, outsider approach and reverence for music. Good stuff. Only a couple hundred made, if that. -SS Z-Gun

Mr Luggs Live in Stewarton - August 30, 2007. Mr Lugg's Scottish brogue is so thick and his ranting fueled on that this live set comes off as - at least at its head - a demented attack. Apparently, this pub was expecting a pleasant evening of sing-a-long and got instead a spirited snarl. At first, Mr Lugg's set is quite exciting, a liquored up gorge of Scot spittle & wicked pickery. But as the evening wears on, the audience's bitterness has turned to boredom and you can hear their chit chat above Lugg's strum strum. Perhaps not by coincidence that the audience gets bored about the same time Luggs softens his attackÉand where I also start to get bored. Fans of Mr Luggs and the Nyah Fearties should track this down, as this will probably be as close as they get to seeing Luggs live. Those unfamiliar, you get the hesitant advice to find and listen to the first five or six songs and walk away rattled. ÐSS Z-Gun Oct 2007

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