Naked Strangers

Biography

The band members are Matt Stockl (lead vocals and guitar), Jon Miller (guitar, synthesisers, ), Ryan Lewis (bass), Andy Grant (drums) and Paul Parkin (Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica).

They have played all over Scotland (everywhere from Wick to Aberdeen to Fort William to Stornoway) as well as Dundee, Glasgow and London. And then there are the festivals - Rockness, Tartan Heart (Belladrum) and Loopallu. They have also supported bands such as Mumford and Sons, Hazey Janes, General Fiasco and, in a couple of months time, DJ Twitch and Sons and Daughters.

They have released 3 EPs – Concrete Carnival and Naked Strangers which also contains live recordings.The third - Social Lubricant - is available now. A new set of songs is currently being mixed could be posted her shortly.

They were recently voted one of ten ‘need to hear’ bands of 2012 by the Daily Record :

‘Music that harks back to the blissed-out heyday of baggy with some extra Grinderman grit thrown in.’
Rick Fulton, The Daily Record

‘Devoid of normal pretensions, they swung the axe of good musical taste towards the expanded head of indie rock and cleaved it into the bastard son of psychedelic rock and Big Country.’
Bluesbunny.com

'This is quite simply a band you must hear.' Rick Fulton, Daily Record

'jagged, skewed, post punk...(reminiscent of) Television era Tom Verlaine'
Jori Kim, HAIL Music

'highly original and energetic' – www.efestivals.com

'Mighty odd and really rather good' – Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival

'the reaction was incredible' – Robert Hicks, Festival organiser

For information about bookings, gigs, etc contact -

Jon Miller - stoatir@virginmedia.com
or
Matt Stockl - mattstockl@hotmail.co.uk