COMMUNITY
The Cinnamons
earn rave reviews
T
HEY are one of Glas- Gerry Crosbie (vocals, lyrics, online.
gow’s most talked about keys, guitar, harmonica, Kaoss ‘Soon, people started to ask
bands with a unique style, pad, production), Lori Duncan what was happening and when
which has been described (vocals, synth, keys, percus- we would be playing live. The
as: The Cars, if they were sion), Dave Bass (backing vocals, three of us jumped at the idea
brought up on Britpop in a bass guitar) and Gavin Hunter of gigging, but lacked the rhythm
council flat. (drums). section we needed to bring The
And the drummer of this talented Lori said: ‘Marshall had been Cinnamons to life. Dave had
quintet is Gavin Hunter from Ga- working on a couple of songs already played bass on half of the
navan, formerly of the Glasgow- on his home computer and after recordings, and was also playing
based Argyll band 8-Page Pullout. hearing Gerry’s voice he asked with Marshall in another band.
Winning over local music lovers him if he would mind singing ‘We then recruited Gavin, the
from the Glasgow area, and on some of the arrangements most talented drummer we
reaching a wider fanbase via the he had recorded. Being fans of knew, to complete the line up.’
Internet and social networking, bands like The New Pornog- The band ran off 100 copies of
The Cinnamons are now far raphers and The Delgados the the home recordings to sell at a
more than the small bedroom guys asked if I would sing on a show in Nice’N’Sleazy and by
project they started out as. couple of the tracks too. the end of the gig had shifted
The Cinnamons are Chris Mar- Over time, our recordings grew every CD.
shall (guitar, keys, sequencing, into an EP, which we posted The band’s first single, Dead
drum loop editing, production), on MySpace and other places Man’s Shoes is out now.
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