Barstow Bats

Despite only forming in late-2012, Barstow Bats have already opened the main stage at Wickerman Festival, played to a packed Comlongon Rocks and headlined Dumfries Music Conference. Steered by song writing duo Andrew Rendall and Steven McKie, and powered by the magnetic rhythms of Barry Gemmell and (bass) and Jonny Tait (drums), the four piece know exactly where they're going.

With all the steel and rootsiness you'd expect from a bunch of Scottish lads and the bohemian style you, perhaps, wouldn't, their sound has influences across the last 50 years. Yet there's an undeniable and brilliantly stirring Barstow Bats sound -- that ranges from the irresistibly catchy to the enchantingly dark and distant.