The Plimptons

Biography

The Plimptons were formed in Motherwell in 1999 by Martin Smith and Adam Smith, who are unrelated. The band played their first gig as a two-piece on 20th January 2000 in Motherwells Bar One (now Starka) where they played some songs including Help The State, Someday and Realm O Majick which would go on to become standards in The Plimptons live show and introduced some folk to their unique brand of Pop/Prog/Ragtime/Neo-Britpop/Folk/Metal.

The Plimptons remained quiet until October of 2004 when they released their debut single Could I Be Loved?, soon followed by their debut album The Songs of Ignorance and of Inexperience which was released in January 2005 on Ivan Lendil Music to widespread local radio play and excitable reviews in the Scottish Music press.

The first track on the album "We R Franz Ferdinand 2" gained the band a legion of fans on the internet (and irritated legions more). Legal threats over the song's title eventually led to the real Franz Ferdinand having to change the name of their second album and vanish into obscurity.

Realising that the band needed to beef up for live shows, from September 2005, the lineup was augmented with Alan Wolf-knuckle on bass, Rowan Smith on drums and Edinburgh's legendary Craig Pulsar on synths

In summer 2006 the band not hastily marched into the studio with Mr Brendan O'Hare to record a second album entitled "POMP". Due for release in January 07. In the meantime, Paul Joseph Kelly stepped into the Pulsarboots as Craig folded in the wake on an oncoming GIG ONSLAUGHT and Neil Robertson steped into the Wolf-knuckles as Allan was ejected from the band for playing Jazz!!! And the Plimp goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and end

Trivia: The band are named after actress Martha Plimpton and cartoonist Bill Plympton.

News

New album "Pomp!" has been recorded and slated for release in January 2007.

Members

Adam Smith - Vocals and guitar

Martin Smith - Vocals and guitar

Rowan Smith - Drums and vocals

Neil Robertson - Bass and vocals

Paul Joseph Kelly - Keyboard and weird noises

Brendan O'Hare - Guitar and screaming