Up and Coming: Mitchell Museum

Published on Sunday 4 July 2010 19:31

Who are Mitchell Museum?

A Glasgow-based four-piece who have emerged fully formed from their HQ (located just above popular venue/watering hole Nice N Sleazy) with their effervescent debut album The Peters Port Memorial Service, titled in recognition of the Benbecula town where frontman Cammy MacFarlane was treated as a child for "losing his mind".

What do they sound like?

Unlike their defiantly Scots-accented peers, Mitchell Museum look to the blissful psychedelic pop and acid-fried lyrical eccentricity of US indie heroes The Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev for inspiration, pulling off their helter-skelter homage with bags of charm and character.

Any other competent business?

All bands should have a good, possibly apocryphal, anecdote about how they met. Mitchell Museum do. Drummer Raindeer and guitarist Dougie allegedly bonded when they were thrown out of class at their music course for playing the theme to The A Team on a cheap keyboard. And they say you don't learn anything at college.

What are other folks saying?

"A dense but wonderfully tuneful dream-pop racket" – The Guardian

"An album continually honed into three-minute manic, off-kilter carnival pop" – The Skinny

Where can I hear more?

www.myspace.com/mitchellmuseum

• The Peters Port Memorial Service is out on Electra French Records on 12 July.

• Mitchell Museum play the T Break Stage at T In The Park on 9 July, and Wickerman Festival on 24 July