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Welcome to Jocknroll, a resource site for Scottish Rock and Pop Music. We feature the A to Z of Scottish bands/singers (with links ot their websites), links to Scottish venues, clubs, festivals, websites, record labels, record shops and the results of our music polls. There's also Scottish Pop Trivia, some videos and our Jocknroll Blog for up to date Scottish Music News.
This site was borne out of a love of all things musical, trivial and Scottish. Let's face it, there have been many great bands/artist who have come out of Scotland, with a good many going on to grace the world stage.
Following the national/international success of our Singles and Album Polls, the site is now a Resource Centre for all things musically Scottish. If your band isn't mentioned on hasn't got a link then by all means let us know. That's what we're here for. Plans are afoot for another poll so keep your eyes and ears open.
So, come in, have a look around and tell us where we're going wrong (or right) as we move to Jocknroll 3.0. I'll get the kettle on.
Anyone for deep-fried shortbread?
The Cat and Dave
SITE NEWS
GO TO THE ALL NEW JOCKNROLL BLOG FOR ALL THE NEWS, GOSSIP AND RUMOURS
The above video is a work in progress. If you're in a Scottish band and you'd like to feature in it, send us a clip of you declaring your love for Jocknroll.
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BUY SCOTTISH ALBUMS
If you want to buy any of the albums featured on the site you just have to click on the respective sleeve. We have linked up with Amazon's Affiliates program. Yes, we get a wee cut but it all goes to help the running costs of the site. We cannot guarantee that all the albums featured are available, especially as some of them are either old or released on smaller labels. Thank you all in advance if you purchase a Scottish album in this way.
THE ARTISTS PAGES
The Artists pages now have links to websites, MySpace pages and other information sources for as many bands as we can find sites for. If we don't have a link for your band or if your band isn't listed on the album page then by all means let us know. We want to publicise every Scottish artist, irrespective of what type music you play. Inuit throat music? Sure. One-man band? Why not?
UPWARDS AND ONWARDS
The site is now a Scottish Music Resource site, with links to as many bands, venues, festivals and assorted bric-a-brac that we think you may be interested in. Also, we haven't ruled out another poll or two in the future.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the site thus far and we look forward to hearing from you all again as the site goes through its period of metamorphosis. Ta-ra for a bit.
RADIO 2'S WEBSITE OF THE DAY
Many thanks to Miles Medonza who made Jock 'n' Roll.co.uk the Website of the day (for the second time) on his regular feature on Steve Wright's Radio 2 Afternoon Show. Apparently, if we get selected again for the Website of the Day we get to keep Miles.
JOCK 'N' ROLL IN THE NEWS?
If you see the Jock 'n' Roll website featured in any newspaper or magazine we'd really appreciate it if (a) you could tell us as soon as possible where you saw it and (b) if possible, send us a copy. E-mail us here and we'll give you an address to send it to.
If any media organisations wish to speak to us you can e-mail us and Dave or The Cat will get in touch with you as soon as humanly possible.
We're still after a copy of the magazine PRODUCT, which featured us. If anyone has a spare copy or knows where we can get one we will very grateful and will name our first born after you. Oops, better make that second born!
Your Band/Group/Combo
Several people have been in touch to let us know of Scottish bands that they were in, who went on to release that cherished piece of 7" vinyl* (*other formats are available). We're happy to add any artist we have missed to our Artist pages.
Feel free to let us know about your band (and their website/MySpace etc) and we'll gladly pull up a chair and listen to your sobs of "we could've been the next Jesse Garon and the Desperadoes" before adding your name to the Artists pages. Shoulder to cry on is optional.
Friends of Jock 'n' Roll
Thanks to all the publications and people who have helped publicise this website (and our polls) and can now call themselves "Friends of Jock 'n' Roll": Andrew Collins, Scott Barrie, BBC 6music, John Carstairs, Dave "Cover" Connor (Forth One/Tay FM/subs bench), Daily Record, Giselle Crow (LA), James Hackett (The Orchids), Martin Hayward, Lenny Helsing (The Thanes), Horse, Martin Ingram (Original 106), David Lee/Claire Smith (The Scotsman), Catriona Vernal, Lucy Hewitt, Lorraine Simpson, Brian Lewis, Alan Simpson (Deadline), The List, Paul Livingstone (Trashcan Sinatras), Joe McAlinden, Fred MacAulay (and team), the Radio Scotland Newsdrive team, BBC Birmingham, Stuart McHugh (JockRock.org), Maisie (Idlewild forum), Martin Millar, Moray Firth Radio, Eddi Reader, Peter Ross (Sunday Herald), Duglas T Stewart/Rachel Allison (BMX Bandits), Grant Stott, Debbie Taylor (Wet Wet Wet Forum), The Vinyl Villain, Web User magazine, David Wells (Neon Tetra records) and Steve Wright/Miles Mendoza (Radio 2) amongst many others. Not forgetting, of course, all of you out there.
