Pensioner Yearlings

Release info:

It is finally here! Pensioner’s debut album ‘Yearlings’ is here and boy are we excited! Having played 4 successful album launch nights this week in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Glasgow and Dundee the album has kicked off to a rapturous reception.

Pensioner are an independent rock band from Dundee, Scotland. The band are: Ross Middlemiss (Vocals, Guitar), Mike Lennie(Vocals, Bass),  Mark Keiller (Vocals, Percussion,  Drums) and Callum Sutherland (Vocals, Guitar). Since forming in early 2009, they have already recorded and self-released their debut EP  and played all over Scotland with the likes of …And So I Watch You From Afar, The Twilight Sad, Errors and LaFaro and The Phantom Band.

Highlights in 2010 included a successful showcase at GoNorth in Inverness, airplay on BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio Scotland,Amazing Radio, Glasgow PodcART and Spain’s Cielo Liquido! Pensioner also recently featured on the ‘Bands to Watch in 2011′ lists of Vic Galloway (BBC Radio Scotland) and Ally McCrae (BBC Radio 1).

Their debut album has been  recorded with the impressive Robin Sutherland (Laeto, Stapleton, Avast!). We are excited to be introducing an artist that is so diverse to our previous releases and one that starts to show the real eclecticism that we at Olive Grove Records are going to be highlighting.E!

Full tracklisting is:

1. Intro
2. Big Trouble in Little Richard
3. Gadgie Weddin’
4. Enter Shakira
5. Annannannawiddecombe
6. Sports Science/Daniel O’Dickhead
7. Like, Epic!
8. Status Whoa
9. Bruce Forsyth’s ‘Chin It To Win It’
10. Massive Ferguson

“..full of angular rock classics” – Ally McCrae (BBC Radio 1)