A Band Called Quinn // Feature
After being talent-spotted in a club night featuring jazz-playing badgers, psychics and burlesque puppeteers, Glaswegian electro pop five piece A Band Called Quinn (fronted by singer/songwriter Louise Quinn) toured Britain last year with award winning theatre company Vanishing Point, in a futuristic update of John Gay’s 18th Century classic The Beggar’s Opera.
The show was a spectacle. Pitched somewhere between a gig and a play it courted much controversy in the theatre world, dividing the critics with reviews ranging from 1-5 stars. Their next album is a record of the songs written specially for the show.
Britain’s best selling crime writer and Rebus creator Ian Rankin has written sleevenotes for the album; other famous fans include Madonna, Parisian superstar DJ Kid Loco, who has collaborated with the band in the past as has Alex Kapranos, indie legends The Pastels and Echo and The Bunnymen guitarist Gordy Goudie.
Their music has been used in films by award-winning directors David McKenzie and Penny Woolcock and they have three tracks featured on forthcoming BBC3 series Lip Service out this Autumn.
“A pop-art treat ” (Q)
“ Accomplished electro-indie tunes, fronted by the alluring Louise Quinn “ (The List)
“…excellent electro stompers…” (Guardian Guide)
“Phenomonal” (Ian Rankin)
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