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The band’s long-term keyboardist and guitarist Dave McGowan ended up taking Love’s role on bass, while new member Euros Childs, formerly of Welsh indie band Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, was drafted in on keyboards. Blake had previously collaborated with Childs on their side project Jonny. “We toured together with Gorky’s years and years ago, and me and Euros became fast friends and we have been for a long time. And personality-wise, he’s a really good guy; he’s a great musician and a great singer, but he brought his own style of playing to the whole thing.”

The thing about institutions is that they’re meant to be impenetrable. We wouldn’t after all want to pursue an adulatory relationship with something or someone that had to explain themselves or come round and do the washing up. That’s not how it works. Take Teenage Fanclub; a Scottish musical institution by anyone’s standards having broken through in 1991 with the near legendary album Bandwagonesque, their career path since has been one that’s gone precisely as they intended, no matter how contrary things have seemed to outsiders. This has made for some arcane decisions; take for in...

Rolling Stone Teenage Fanclub Release Bittersweet New Song ‘The Sun Won’t Shine on Me’ Track will appear on Scottish outfit’s next album, Endless Arcade Endless Arcade, out April 30th via Merge. “The Sun Won’t Shine on Me” is graceful song written by Norman Blake that’s filled with twinkling guitar lines and rich vocal harmonies that give off a distinct Sixties folk vibe. “With a troubled mind I am in decline,” Blake sings on the bittersweet chorus, “And the sun won’t shine on me/With a troubled mind I am in decline/And the sun won’t shine on me.”

Teenage Fanclub's 'The Sun Won't Shine On Me' Is A Gentle Waltz

1407 Views Teenage Fanclub have always been a band you can rely on for big harmonies, big tunes and songs that evoke the radiant joy of The Byrds or Big Star. Long-term fans may approach this 10th album with some trepidation after the departure of founding member and bassist Gerry Love in 2018 but the indie veterans from Belshill, on the outskirts of Glasgow, have long been masters at giving their crowd what they need at the same time as subtly exploring new territory. To that end, Endless Arcade chimes and jangles much as you would both want and expect. As on 2010’s Shadows ...