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Twin Atlantic are an interesting band, they’ve supported some amazing acts, Angels and Airwaves and My Chemical Romance amongst others. They are signed to Red Bull Records and they sing in their own Scottish accent. Their new album ‘Free’ produced by Gil Norton (Foo Fighters, Pixies) is out this Friday and they play The Academy 2 this Thursday. I caught up with their chatty lead singer Sam McTrusty on a sunny Glasgow day.

For us, here, based in Ireland, we get to hear a bit about the music scene in London and Manchester through the media but we don’t hear a lot about what happens in Glasgow, give us an insight.

‘Well, I suppose, it’s kinda like a big community of people and I think that stems from it being a working class area and everyone there using music as an escape, like at the weekend or gigs at night time. The cool factor is less there in Glasgow and I think that there’s no animosity between certain scenes. I mean, indie bands don’t hate the metal bands and all that sort of stuff. It’s just like everyone helps each other up the ladder. It probably comes from being separated from the music scene down south, that’s really where it all really kicks off where you would get a record deal or anything like that and it results in bands been given time and space to grow and become an actual real band. Not that bands down south aren’t, I just think there’s that bit more honesty installed in you if you’re given a chance to develop away from the pressures of (the media and spotlight?) people who are out to make money out of ye’.

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