Introducing: Edinburgh’s Finest Bwani Junction, On Their

It may have been a slow start for this Edinburgh quartet but, now on their second album and fresh from their mini tour with Little Comets, it looks like Bwani Junction are really going to rock 2014.

The band admit that most of them (Rory, Fergus and Jack) have been making music together since they were at the tender of 11, before Dan joined the group at 16 when they formed Bwani Junction. It was then they released their debut album ‘Fully Cocked’ through their own label Aksatak, working with Glaswegian record producer Paul Savage who is best known as the drummer in The Delgados. They had a good career start, playing the likes of T In The Park and the Isle of White Festival and supporting The View and Simple Minds, before things got a bit quieter for them. However, here now with their excellent second album ‘Tongue Of Bombie’, they will no doubt be bringing the music industry’s attention round to them again. 

‘We wrote the album when we were just at the stage where we were starting to get smashed all the time; that’s what the first album contained’, they admitted to us in an interview. ‘This second album is much more personal to us. We worked with Paul again but this time it was more about getting the structures together and trying to be a little more thoughtful about the lyrics as well.’ ‘Tongue Of Bombie’ has been sitting around for a few months now – long enough for the boys to get started on their third album. ‘It is still in a very early stage; we do have around fifteen to twenty tracks roughly written which is great, but we still have to do the lyrics’, they said of album three.

Meanwhile, they have recently released album two’s latest single ‘Caveman’. ‘We were looking forward to seeing how the fans would react to that song just because it is slightly different to the first album stuff’, they explain, having previously detailed that it’s about ‘having the horn for a girl’. The subject matter certainly came across in the video, which featured raunchy scenes between a band member and a murderous vixen. ‘I guess that’s what you dream about as a young lad, being in a band and doing sex scenes for videos’, they confess.

Listen to ‘Civil War’ (Discopolis Remix) here: