There’s a new name to add to the long line of classic Scottish guitar pop bands – the latest My Dad signings Crash My Model Car. With echoes of the Postcard Records scene and Snow Patrol’s passionate pop, Glasgow’s Crash My Model Car are a band whose songs speak for themselves. The Maybe EP introduces a major new songwriting force in singer/guitarist Iain Morrison – look no further than Ghladstone Road’s big chorus, the Pixies-influenced White Light, the delicate, hopeful Waltz and the title track’s driving, FM rock for proof.

Morrison grew up on the remote Hebridean Island of Lewis. The son of a world-renowned bagpipe player, he was born into a musical family and quickly developed an interest in traditional Scottish music, eventually becoming a champion schoolboy piper. But as a teenager, Morrison’s head was turned.

“I was 18 when I bought my first acoustic guitar,” he says. “I had to sneak it into the house because the old man considered it a foreign instrument. One day he heard me playing and he went off his head. He didn't speak to me for about a week, but he began to understand what I was doing and I would say now that he is our biggest fan.”

Iain’s dad was wise to accept his son’s broadening horizons. Iain, it emerges, has a knack for passionate, honest songcraft - one that transcends the ebb and flow of the fashions and fads of the music world.

“We’re just trying to do our own thing,” says Iain. “We’re not following some trend or trying to be anyone other than ourselves. A good song is a good song whether you've got a cool jacket and haircut or not. Maybe it has something to do with growing up on an island, but we kind of feel out of the pack a wee bit, and we’re happy being in that place.”

Crash My Model Car came together when Iain moved to Glasgow, where they eventually evolved into a powerful three-piece. Ali Whitty (bass, keys and vocals) and Tony Soave (drums) complete the line-up. Internationally, they scored a nod of approval from taste-making show The OC, who used one of the band’s tracks in the show. At home, they’re already a big deal in their native city, where they regularly sell out at King Tut’s. See what the rest of the country has been missing out on when the band hit the road for a series of dates in December.

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