Cheers for the play, Brutha Voodoo!

INTERVIEW: HOW TO SWIM'S GREGOR BARCLAY Editor Paul Maps talks to Gregor about their year-long 6 album project and LP#2 'Poundstore Diabolism'. ‪‬ @howtoswimband.bsky.social

Brand new today! Our second album of 2025: Poundstore Diabolism. album.link/i/1820016548 #newmusic #newalbum #glasgowbands #musicsky

Scenes from our epic two-album "Animal Maximum/Maximum Animal" principal recording sessions. 15 songs in three days, and one more day to go! #animalmaximum and #maximumanimal will be the third and fourth #HTS albums to drop this year. #musicsky #musiciansky #newmusic #sixalbumsandamovie

New #promo photo of the band. Taken at Nice N Sleazy by Ethan Knight. #musiciansky #sixalbumsandamovie #hts #glasgowbands #glasgowband #glasgowmusic

#musiciansky #promos

Strange things were afoot at the Glad Cafe yesterday with these 6/7ths of the band working on a music video for our next single... #musiciansky #hts #glasgowbands #glasgowband #sixalbumsandamovie

The video for Magazines, the lead single off our first album of 2025: Greek Active. #MusicSky #MusicianSky #IndieMusic #MusicVideos #MusicVideo #OriginalMusicTracks #ScottishBands youtu.be/op_kL8pBkvI?... #sixalbumsandamovie

@skeptandscound.bsky.social Hey Eric, give us an add please so we can message you!

Thanks @joyzineuk.bsky.social for this lovely review of #greekactive!

#Eartraining with Noah! Is the chord major, minor, diminished or augmented? #musiciansky #hts #brokenpiano #sixalbumsandamovie

My band, ÜLV, has a new single out. It would be great if you’d go to ulvtheband.bandcamp.com and give it a listen. We’re one of those bands that gets completely ignored, so some support would be lovely.

Don’t you hate when a band releases a single that sounds nothing like the rest of their album? YOUR FAVOURITE BAND IS ON THE DRUGS AGAIN (OH NO) is out now! open.spotify.com/track/0XmERH...

#gigannouncement #glasgowgigs #gigs #albumlaunch #nicensleazy #hts #sixalbumsandamovie #glasgow Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-swi...

Because God hath wrought not only wonders, Jerry.

Dave and Patsy singoff in rehearsal. #magazines #rehearsal #bandpractise #hts #MusicianSky #sixalbumsandamovie

Roddy played not one but THREE tracks from 'Greek Active' on Radio Scotland last night, dubbing the album this week's "record of note". It was a great show and you can listen again here. #greekactive #hts #newmusic #musicsky #skymusic #sixalbumsandamovie

We just heard that 'Greek Active' is to be the 'record of note' on The Roddy Hart Show on BBC Radio Scotland tonight. Tune in from 10pm! #newmusic #hts #sixalbumsandamovie

Our second album of 2025 is coming on April 29th. 'Poundstore Diabolism' launches with a live HTS show at Glasgow's Nice N Sleazy, with support from The Slackhead Incident. #glasgowgigs #gigsglasgow #gigs #Glasgow #nicensleazy #poundstorediabolism #hts #supportindependentmusic #sixalbumsandamovie

Logic+Conscience dubbed 'Video of the Week' over at is this music? - many thanks to them for the kind words! #musicvideo #musicvideos #newmusic #hts #supportindependentmusic #sixalbumsandamovie

linktr.ee/howtoswim Figured we'd get a linktree for easy access to our sounds.

New video for our song, Logic+Conscience - give it a look, hit that subscribe button till it leaves a welt. Byee. #SkyOriginalMusicTracks #newmusic #newvideo #newmusicvideo #musicvideo m.youtube.com/watch?v=knu1...

Anyone else feel an early screening of Scrooged coming on? 😥

And finally, this is the guy who started it all back in 2000AD: Gregor Barclay, our lead singer and songwriter. He's the creative force behind pretty much everything we do. #MusicianSky

This one is our newest member, pianist and clarinet player Noah Scott! Noah's been making waves in the world of traditional music recently and joined us to beef up his pop/rock credentials. He'll be making his live debut with us in April. #MusicianSky

This one is Dave Gillies, our bassist since 2013. He likes to sing the high backing vocals and has never worked out how to use a pick effectively. #bigbottom

This one is Alexander 'Betty' Lambton, our long-serving tenor sax player. Legend says we got him on Gumtree, but no one remembers for sure. He brings the #sweetness and the #skronk in equal measures.

I can't remember ever using the word adorable to describe a straight up rock song but that's the word that bubbles up with this new tune from The Bug Club. It's just so fun! #listeningnow #musicsky #indiemusic #bandcamp thebugclub.bandcamp.com/track/have-u...

Here's a sweet track of lost love that we hid away near the end of 'Greek Active'. #SupportIndependentMusic #MusicSky #SkyMusic #MusicianSky #newmusic #indiemusic #music #OriginalMusicTracks #ScottishBands #HtS

#MusicSky #MusicianSky #IndieMusic #Music #MusicVideos #MusicVideo #OriginalMusicTracks #ScottishBands youtu.be/op_kL8pBkvI?...

#SkyOriginalMusicTracks #OriginalMusicTracks #SkyMusic "Straight White Men" from last year's Bars 'n' Loners album. youtu.be/gT8o2PgL4l4?...

This is Chris Brown who returned to the live lineup late last year, having drummed for us throughout our early years. He's also the band archivist, mainly because he is the only one with a functioning long-term memory! Glad to have you back, Chris, for all the crazy things we have planned on 2025.

This is Patsy Cramilton who plays synths and occasional cello with us, as well as providing most of the most crucial backing vocals. She's also a roller derby girl and we're regularly worried she'll break her fingers or something worse!

Big love to @windmillbrixton.bsky.social, a fantastic London venue we played at occasionally in the 2010s. It's also the place where the cover photo for our new album was taken, depicting their legendary #roofdog! #RIProofdog. By all accounts you were an EXTREMELY good boy.

Spotlight on our lead guitarist, Daniel Drever! Dan joined us early last year, in time to contribute to the album we just dropped, and he's been bringing a whole new flavour to the live show.

Little known fact about the band: Glasgow filmmaker Martin Campbell is making a documentary about our activities this year.

Made a wee public playlist of some of the new album, as well as some new (and new-ish) tracks from local artists we dig (Big Girl's Blouse, The Slackhead Incident, f.o machete, Zoe Graham, Paul Vickers and the Leg) @ and some favourites from last year. Enjoy! open.spotify.com/playlist/4Sm...

Brand new today: our fourth studio album, GREEK ACTIVE, described by the Scottish Daily Express as "majestic art rock, combining the poppiness of Franz Ferdinand and the unpredictability of Field Music". Stream it everywhere now! album.link/i/1797179711 #newmusic #newalbum #newmusicalert

Our new album, Greek Active, is available now to stream or download. album.link/i/1797179711

Just two more sleeps till our #new #album appears in all the usual places! #greekactive #hts

Another track from the Retina anniversary remix album - Ink Wilson's World of Fear - check it out below. Also, subscribe to our youtube if you can - it'd really help us out this year to get more followers over there. Thanks again to Cara South for her incredible work on the remixes.

Our flashy, high fidelity #musicvideo from last year, Magazines.

Our new album Greek Active, is available for preorder right now through bandcamp, ahead of its release on February 21st. It's arriving later than we planned (ha) but we're super proud of this one and we think you're gonna like it as much as we do.

Fifteenth anniversary remix of our track, False, from our 2010 album Retina (or More Fun Than a Vat of Love).

A wee video from our show at The Glad Cafe just before Christmas, a live cut of one of the tracks off our Bars 'n' Loners album. It's a downbeat song lyrically, but you can cut a rug to it. Thanks to Demi Sutherland for operating the cameras.

Here's the first episode of our new #retrospective #podcast, 'The Band That Time Forgot', celebrating our first 25 years! Featuring current and past members of the band, including Paul Joseph Kelly from @themartialarts.bsky.social Like and share!

Join us on Friday for the double album launch!

Our next gig is at the Glad Cafe in Glasgow on 20th December, a double album-release show with @themartialarts.bsky.social. Tickets here...

bsky.app/profile/howt... hey @jockrocknews.bsky.social, here's our new video!