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CMU Approved
Approved: The Scaramanga Six
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 25 October 2010
The Scaramanga Six are a big band. I don’t mean this because there are six of them. For one thing, there aren’t six of them, they number just four. I mean big in a musical sense. Formed in 1995 by twin brothers Paul and Steven Morricone, the Leeds-based band write grand rock songs, mixing big riffs with enough theatrical bombast to nudge things firmly over the top, but without slipping and falling into the realms of pretentiousness that would take away all the fun.
The band have just made a compilation available to download for free (or for money) via Bandcamp, featuring sixteen tracks from their six albums. Each song is a poke in the ribs to ask why you’ve not been listening to this band for years, but tracks like ‘Soul Destroyer’ and ‘Vesuvius’ see them at their explosive best. Meanwhile, ‘Horrible Face’ could be a Bond theme, if it weren’t for the boomed refrain, “You ugly, ugly cow!”
