Martha May & The Mondays, Scotland On Sunday, 18 June 2023
Martha May & The Mondays | Dragon Soop Artist of the Week in Scotland On Sunday, 18 June 2023
Words by Derick Mackinnon and Olaf Furniss. Read on Scotsman.com
For a band who only formed a few months ago, Martha May & The Mondays have hit the ground running, performing at the Country 2 Country Festival in The Hydro in March and licensing their first recordings to Universal Music Group.
Fronted by multi-instrumentalist and prolific songwriter Martha-May MacKay, their early releases have already found favour with BBC Radio Scotland and resulted in several Glasgow shows. With a strong hint of Courtney Barnett on the song I Lie All The Time and Throwing Muses on Beware Of The Black Dog, the first tracks give a tempting taste of more brilliance still to come.
McKay is a prolific writer, making daily notes in a diary which result in some quality lyrics (look out for the brilliant I Wish I Was Gary Lineker.) Meanwhile, her love for football and tennis, has her perusing a parallel career as a budding sports journalist (she is off to Wimbledon next week).
Martha May & The Mondays, play Glasgow’s The Hug and Pint on 23 June and King Tut’s Summer Nights on July 23. Their next EP, Sports, is released in August see https://linktr.ee/marthaamay
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