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Mellow Party is a lowlander alternative folk band. Its first release was a tribute to comedy legend Billy Connolly for the Friends of the People’s Palace. The single was passed onto the big yin by Glasgow acting legend Gavin Mitchell, it received play on the Iain Anderson and Travelling Folk show on BBC Radio Scotland. They have influences as varied as Flatt and Scruggs, Flight Of The Conchords, The Mighty Boosh, Robert Burns, The Proclaimers, Simon and Garfunkel and the Humble Bums. ‘If It Gets You Where You’re Going’ was BBC Radio Scotland single of the week April 2023 after which they flew out to New York Tartan week playing gigs at Club Cumming, Bryant Park and The Sony Music Hall main event as well as a detour to play The Fire Philadelphia with collaborators The Laurettes and Gleadhraich.Follow-up single ‘Stand In The Moment’ released May 2024 led to the band being artist of the week with The Scotsman/ Scotland on Sunday and number one in the itunes Singer Songwriter chart.
‘Go On Yourself’ a collaboration with Dumfries Community Choir reached Number 42 in the official UK single charts in June 2024 and was single of the week on BBC Radio Scotland with the song being launched at Hampden Stadium at poet friend Julie McNeils ‘This Is Scottish Football’ book launch and was a feature on ITV News during the Euros.
Mellow Party and Dumfries Community Choir launched the band's debut album in the auditorium in Oran Mor at Celtic Connections ‘The Love You Have Inside Of You Is All That You Truly Own’ at Celtic Connections came out January 2025
The album features two BBC Radio Scotland singles of the week ‘If It Gets You Where You’re Going’ and ‘Go On Yourself’ as well as brand new unreleased tracks with lead vocals from 3 different band mates John McMustard on album opener ‘Losing Streaks and Shaky Knees’ Ayrshire polymath Colin Hunter on ‘Follow Me I’ll Be Right Behind You’ and Perthshire multi instrumentalist Gordy Duncan on ‘Where I Belong’.
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