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album All Watched Over By Machines Of Lov-ing Grace. I’ve pretty much had it on repeat.

I just love the pairing of James and Lisa’svocals, backed with edgy indie-pop.

It’s their harmonies that really make thesongs stand out, but they’ve created anaccomplished sound.

Andy said: “The first album was raw, rougharound the edges. After a delay in releasing itdue to line up changes and differences of

opinions with some producers, we justwanted to get it out there. We knew it had realquality to it. If anything it was an explosion ofideas. Perhaps too many!”

The new record seems more focused. Ithas the sound of a complete album ratherthan a few stand-out tracks bulked up withfillers.

Lisa said: “Sonically, we have changedquite substantially from the first album. We’re

Watch video of band at:thescottishsun.co.uk

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BandRussells up someUniversal appeal

It’sbeer-soakedmayhemateveryoneofour showsACTION hero Jack Bauerhas competition from Bathrockers Bare KnuckleParade.

Bauer may have prevented allsorts of disasters in just 24 hours,but the band recorded theirdebut album, including smashsingle Diamond Eyes in the sametime — but they did need anawful lot of COFFEE.

Frontman Jamie Beale explained:“We didn’t have enough money tomake the full album, and the guy wewere working with was in Devon.

“He said he liked what we weredoing and suggested staying up allnight. We managed to do it.

“He’s a coffee connoisseur, so heloaded us up with that and wecracked on.

“The conversations got wacky butthe recordings stayed on track.

“Diamond Eyes actually was thesong we went in to record. We fin-ished it and then he mentioned doingthe album.”

Really getting their money’s worth,they also shot a music video whilelaying down Diamond Eyes.

Over-whelmed bythe reaction so far

And despite the rush job, it’s allgoing down a storm.

Jamie, 21, said: “We’ve been over-whelmed by the reaction so far. We’vehad a lot of really, really nice mes-sages. To be honest, we didn’t expectany of that.”

Low expectations are normal forBKP. They formed during a boozynight out and earned a fan base fromthe start.

Jamie said: “It seemed like a goodidea at the time. I’m sure a lot ofpeople have said it on a night out.

“But we followed up on it, wedecided the name that night.

“We realised we’d gone too far,when our third show ever sold out.

“It was a pub in Bath, we set upthe instruments and went home to getmicrophones.

“We drove back and by then, it waspacked and everyone was facing thestage.

“Apparently they were there to seeus. We looked at each other andthought, ‘Oh s***’.”

The lads hit Edinburgh on April 29

at Henry’s Cellar Bar. It’s their firstproper gig north of the border.

Jamie said: “We don’t do it as muchnow, but we used to tour around thecountry and busk in the streets.

“We’ve done that in Edinburgh on astreet corner.

“But this is our first actual show ina venue in Scotland and we’re lookingforward to it.”

The plan is to get the album out inlate summer but they have no realplan of action on any of their tours.

They are more off the cuff — that’show they operate.

Jamie admitted: “We pride ourselveson being unpredictable, loud anduntamed.

“We started off playing a lot of oursongs aiming towards drinking anddrunk people.

“As we developed as a band, wetried out other stuff.

“But every show we do is beer-soaked, sweat-dripping pandemonium.

“There are a lot of bands who have

a plan every time they go on stageand that’s cool.

“I’ve seen a lot of them do itextremely well. It makes the show ina lot of cases.

“But for us, we all do the classicpre-gig ritual of banging ourheads on the walls and pacingabout.

“No one really knows what’sgoing to happen.

“We always like to try newthings.

“One of us will get a crazyidea to climb up on thevenue, but we don’t tell theothers.

“So we all just see some-one doing something wackyand play off it.

“That’s the way we like todo things. We thrive whenwe’re on a stage.”lWatch the video for DiamondEyes now at bareknucklepa-rade.com

UNIVERSAL THEEWHO: James Russell (vocals/guitar), LisaRussell (vocals), Robin Spivey (guitar),Andrew Perrie (bass), Albie Clark (drums)WHERE: EdinburghFOR FANS OF: Pixies, Pavement, WeezerJIM SAYS:Much as I’d like to claim UniversalThee for my home town of Dundee, theyactually hail from Edinburgh — except for lat-est recruit Albie. They did first cross pathswhile at uni in Dundee.

Fronted by husband-and-wife duo Jamesand Lisa Russell, the band debuted in 2010,with an album Back To Earth emerging in2014. They’ve just released their second

much more collaborative when writing. Thesound moves slightly from the Americaninfluences to our Scottish influences, a pointwhich has been picked up in early listensfrom those in the industry.”

After Speaker, and the free taster trackHounds, their latest single Keep Falling isreleased today. They should be unveiling thevideo for it soon.

Universal Thee play Sneaky Pete’s in Edin-burgh on March 26, and are looking tosecure some summer festival slots.

James said: “T In The Park would be great.We like to take it one goal at a time.”MORE: universalthee.comlJim presents a weekly showcase of NewMusic on Amazing Radio Sundays 2-4pm.amazingradio.com jimgellatly.com

NEWMUSICBy Jim Gellatly

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