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SUNDARA Karma have just landed a bigrecord deal.So now’s the time to prove they were worththe investment.They’re hitting the road and are at KingTut’s in Glasgow on October 20.Big things are expected of the Readinggroup and there is lots of excitement abouttheir music future.Get some more information on the band atfacebook.com/SundaraKarma.

ROCK chick Misty Miller is certainly NOT apuppet.She’s got plenty of edge and is carving outher own career path. Think Kurt Cobaincrossed with Jessie J.Her track Happy was a summer banger,and new single Next To You is keeping therun going. Not many songs feature a girlranting about shaving her legs for a guy.Plus Misty’s on tour at The Attic in Glas-gow on November 6.Check out: mistymiller.com

LONDON lads Gengahr know whatside their bread is buttered on.

They breezed through recording theirdebut album. But they know, there’s no potof cash on it’s way.

Frontman Felix Bushe admitted: “If you’regoing into this with the mentality thatyou’re going to make loads of money, you’redoing the wrong job.

“That’s not going to happen. But if you’recommitted to the art and want to producesomething good, and be apart of it for a long time thenthere’s no reason why youcan’t build a career.

“There’s no quick moneynow, years back in the 90sthere was loads of moneychucked at bands.

“If you wrote a couple of hittunes, you were laughing. Butthat’s not the case anymore.”

Their album A Dream Out-side has gone down a storm.

But it wasn’t the tough proc-ess that most bands encounter.

Felix rapped: “We did somedemos before we recorded it — we put themonline and that gathered the momentum.

“So when it came to recording. We didn’tchange much, we did it ourselves with anengineer. It wasn’t a challenging process.

“If anything we got it finished quickerthan anyone expected. There was no stress.

“At the end of the year, we had 16 songsdone and we picked the best.” One placeit’s really taken off is Australia. The boysare big news down under and recently jet-

ted over — Flex said: “You have to look at aglobal level now. We were signed over inAustralia before we were here and that’sdue to the internet.

“Going over took us a while, but all ofour songs have charted over there, so we’vehad much better commercial success com-pared to here. We went over and weren’tprepared for the level of recognition.

“It was very exciting to see the music hadtravelled that far.”

Now they’re giving it somewelly on home turf. The batterout on a full UK tour later thismonth — playing Glasgow’sKing Tut’s on October 19.

Alex said: “Scotland is still arelatively new territory for us.

“We’ve played King Tut’stwice before, but only as asupport act. Now it’s our firstheadline tour, we’re a bit ner-vous as we’ve got to go andrepresent ourselves.

“It’s still early days for usdoing tours like this, so we

don’t have huge expectations.“Our approach to things is due to the

way we’re set up as a band, you’re notgoing to see billboards with our name on it.We’re doing it the old fashioned way of justplaying. But that suits us down to theground, as we like touring. Once you’ve gota record there, you’ve got to go sell it.

“And the way we’re going to do that, is togo play it for everyone - and do it justice.”l FOR tour tickets and to download thealbum go to gengahr.com

welly on home turf. The batterout on a full UK tour later thismonth — playing Glasgow’sKing Tut’s on October 19.

relatively new territory for us.

twice before, but only as asupport act. Now it’s our firstheadline tour, we’re a bit ner-vous as we’ve got to go andrepresent ourselves.

doing tours like this, so wedon’t have huge expectations.

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LIONALWHO: Joshua Mackenzie (vocals/guitar), Gogo McKerrow (keys/vocals), Ross Haddow (bass), Rus-sell Montgomery (drums)WHERE: InvernessFOR FANS OF: Arctic Monkeys, Edi-tors, Franz FerdinandJIM SAYS: It was a joy to finally catchLional last month when theyappeared at the Hard Rock Café inGlasgow.

I had heard great things about theInverness outfit, and I wasn’t disap-pointed. Often I’ll catch a new bandand spot some potential.

In the case of Lional, they cameacross as the fully formed article.Blistering indie rock songs and greatstage presence — they ARE des-tined for big things.

What I’d heard on their first EP MyDesign was brilliantly transferred tothe live stage. It was no surprise thatthey were nominated as Best New-comers for this year’s Scottish Alter-native Music Awards

Originally formed as ‘Lionel’ in2013, they’ve just changed the spell-ing of their name. Frontman Joshuaexplained: “At the time of naming theband I didn’t really take into consider-ation the importance of online traffic.

I was incredibly naive of course. Wetoyed with the idea of changing thename completely but everythingmade us wince with cringe.”

The band are set to release theirdebut single Season Of Salt nextmonth. It’s the first release on a brandnew Inverness label IMOUT Records,formed by fellow highland musicianIain McLaughlin.

Lional are launching their new sin-gle at the Spectrum Centre in Inver-ness on November 27.MORE: lonalband.coml JIM presents a weekly showcaseof New Music on Amazing RadioSundays 2-4pm. amazingra-dio.com www.jimgellatly.coml PHOTO credit : James Roberts

Watchvideoofbandat: thescottishsun.co.uk