TST: The Southern Tenant

 

the synth led electronic spin-off from the STFU

 

“This album, which evokes the gloriously ominous soundtracks of John Carpenter, can now be added to that list of retro themed reactions to the new, emerging right.Joe Lepper, Neon Filler, 8/10

 

“An instrumental synthesizer soundtrack to the sadly imaginary yet remarkably prescient fright flick The Horror of the Right. Director/composer John Carpenter owns this territory, but Pat McGarvey and Steve Ironside of TST are intimately acquainted with its every ominous pulse, chorus effect and doomy analogue synth frisson.Fiona Shepherd, The Scotsman, ****

 

“Abounds with John Carpenter-style waves and washes of neon. Here and there are splashes of 8-bit playfulness and the odd Giorgio Moroder arpeggio”  The List

 

Out soon the new album

‘Halloween Hits Vol One: Enter The Horror Disco’

 

 

‘The Sleeper Awakens’ on sale now

 

Download – https://tst-thesoutherntenant.bandcamp.com/album/the-sleeper-awakens

 

 

Debut album ‘The Horror Of The Right’ on sale now

 

 

 

CD – https://tinyurl.com/l4tsc3u
Download – https://tinyurl.com/lbhzpdm

 

Reviews

 

The Scotsman – 4 stars – https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/music/album-reviews-saint-etienne-alt-j-dan-auerbach-tst-the-southern-tenant-1-4467263

 

Neon Filler – 8/10 – http://www.neonfiller.com/wordpress/?p=12623

 

No 37 in Jockrock’s “2017 Albums Of The Year” – http://www.jockrock.org/news/albums-of-the-year-2017/

 

The Attic – Bandcamp Pick Of The Week – http://the-attic.net/news/2029/bandcamp-pick-of-the-week:-tst:-the-southern-tenant-_-the-horror-of-the-right-ost.html

 

Review Graveyard – 6/10 – http://www.reviewgraveyard.com/00_revs/r2017/music/17-06-02_horror-right.html

 

Cultzilla – Things we liked in 2017 – http://www.cultzilla.co.uk/2017-things-liked/

 

 

 

Next concerts (see Tour page for full details)

 

Check back here soon

 

 

Previous concerts

 

Thursday 31st October 2019 – ‘Enter The Horror Disco’ – Halloween Special – brand new music from the forthcoming album…

 

Sunday 2nd September 2018 – Neon Frights Night @ Canon’s Gait, Edinburgh (support for screening of ‘The Dark Within’) with special guest ‘Joe Turner’ from ‘Of Spire & Throne’ playing Bass/FX & Synths along with TST

 

Sunday 17th June 2018 – Werewolves, Demons & Car Chases @ Leith Depot

 

Friday 27th October 2017 – Halloween at St Mark’s Special – a one off concert with brand new TST music  set to video of darkest nighttime Edinburgh…plus an ‘in-church’ screening of the John Carpenter horror classic ‘Prince Of Darkness’ – NB: This event happened inside a Church for added atmosphere – It’s the closest we could get to the US screening in Oct 2015 of the movie inside the church it was filmed in…we have released the TST music from this gig as ‘The Sleeper Awakens’ (Catalogue No. JOROCK027)

 

Friday 15th September 2017 – Jackhammer @ The Caves, 8-10 Niddry St S, Edinburgh EH1 1NS – Onstage 11pm (a warm up support slot for two well known techno DJs – Neil Landstrumm & Dave Clarke) 

 

Sunday 30th July 2017 – Leith Depot, 140 Leith Walk, Edinburgh – LEITH ALBUM LAUNCH for ‘THE HORROR OF THE RIGHT’ – Free entry with donation – Doors 6pm – TST onstage 7pm sharp

 

Friday 2nd June 2017 – The Caves, Edinburgh – a support slot for  Scottish techno producer Stephen Brown – also on the bill – Harbingers Drum Crew – ALBUM LAUNCH ‘THE HORROR OF THE RIGHT’

 

Thu 15th September 2016 – joined onstage by Graeme Stephen (Jazz guitarist and silent movie score composer)

@ The Leith Depot, 140 Leith Walk, Edinburgh, EH6

 

Friday 17th June 2016 @ The Banshee Labyrinth, Edinburgh – support from ‘Cabasa Cabasa’ – Album Fundraiser Gig

 

Friday 31st October 2014 @ Summerhall – Scanners Live Re Score (plus Night Of The Demon screening)

 

Thu 1st May 2014 @ Banshee Labyrinth – opening for headliner ‘Umberto’

 

 

‘TST: The Southern Tenant’ is an electronic offshoot project of Southern Tenant Folk Union. Featuring Pat McGarvey and Steve Ironside, ‘TST: The Southern Tenant’ has initially taken songs by the aforementioned folk and bluegrass collective and re-imagined them as synth and drum machine led movie themes – this has resulted in their debut album ‘The Horror Of The Right’, the original soundtrack to an obscure and probably non existent Horror/Action B Movie from 1981. The Release date for this is Fri 2nd June 2017 and is on sale now in the audio/shop page of this website.

 

Both longtime fans of electronic movie composers (like John Carpenter, Vangelis, Fabio Frizzi & Tangerine Dream) Steve Ironside & Pat McGarvey had been working independently for years on instrumental electronic music before getting together in Leith and starting to pool ideas and synth sounds. McGarvey made his first ‘synth’ recordings in 1996 at home with a Tascam four track, Boss DR550 drum machine, Roland  U-220 and a Yamaha DX7 keyboard. The intervening years saw him touring around the world playing americana, alt country and then bluegrass before forming the Southern Tenant Folk Union in 2006. Recent years have seen that influence brought to bear on the band’s albums. Ironside spends his time immersed in the sounds of science fiction and the science of sound. Having experimented in his youth rewiring amplifiers to create droning feedback loops, he eschews more traditional concepts of melody in favour of textures and timbre. This project was an opportunity to explore both.

 

Having done their debut concert in May 2014 supporting US synth artist ‘Umberto’ (aka Matt Hill) they have started playing regular concerts around Edinburgh – notably at Halloween a couple of years ago with their live movie re-score of the head popping Cronenberg cult classic ‘Scanners’ – you can listen to the live concert audio here –

 

https://soundcloud.com/the-southern-tenant/sets/scanners-re-score-live-in-concert-the-southern-tenant

 

TST will at some point in the future record and release a studio version of their Re-Score Scanners

 

 

AUDIO

You can listen to the entire ‘The Horror Of The Right’ album and the live ‘Scanners ReScore’ excerpts here –

https://soundcloud.com/the-southern-tenant

 

VIDEO

Full video to work in progress version of Walker

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s a live video of the song ‘Walker’ from the Umberto support concert May 1st 2014 at Banshee Labyrinth in Edinburgh – Steve managed to superimpose the video images we edited together for the concert on top…

 

 

 

A second live video of the song ‘Silent Rage’ from the same concert (May 1st 2014 at Banshee Labyrinth in Edinburgh)

 

 

 

A third live video from same debut gig – this is for the song ‘Invasion USA’

 

 

 

Here’s the video of the track Breaker ‘Breaker’ – the opening cut of our debut gig

 

 

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