Music
2025
Brògeal
Scottish firebrands have infused their old-fashioned indie rock with a hearty Celtic sauce.
They were bored schoolchildren in a messy punk band, now they are 'roving Falkirk bairn': wandering boys from the Scottish Lowlands. Brògeal makes pastoral folk-punk - an Irish-Scottish blend that naturally reminds one of The Pogues, The Dubliners, and The Proclaimers, but also of the sharp early days of Arctic Monkeys and Oasis. They have plenty of bravado, like so many British bands just starting out. But it’s the village kind of bravado, characterized by an ironic sense of community, precisely because everyone secretly dreams of escaping. An anthem like 'Fly Away' is meant to be sung on a souped-up moped - 65 km/h - on a single track road, going nowhere.
