Seminal indie mavericks FINI TRIBE unveil retrospective album set and release ‘We’re Interested’ single and video

SCOTLAND’s seminal indie mavericks FINI TRIBE announce retrospective album set ‘The Sheer Action of Fini Tribe: 1982-1987’ (October 10 via Shipwrecked Industries) and today share single and video ‘We’re Interested.’

The anthology includes their John Peel session from 1985, the original 12” singles including ‘Detestimony,’ the WaxTrax! singles, and a number of previously unreleased live tracks.

Born into the cash-strapped but culturally significant neighbourhoods of a post-punk Edinburgh, Fini Tribe began life a drummer-less trio before expanding into a muscular six-piece comprising Chris Connelly, Simon McGlynn, Andy McGregor, Davie Miller, Philip Pinsky, and John Vick.

“Actually ‘We’re Interested’ was a watershed moment for the Fini Tribe,” said Connelly. “Starting with John Vick’s plaintive piano melody, it invited each member of the group to bring a melancholy laced with an – almost – pop sensibility to the song, inspired by endless walks, bike rides and other shenanigans on the banks of Edinburgh’s Union Canal, one of the many cryptic landmarks of the city that inspired the band. The song is Edinburgh, moreso than most. It is the green of the Braid Burn Valley, the dank history of the band’s Niddry Street rehearsal room, the secret lanes of the New Town.

“The version you have here was recorded at BBC Maida Vale studios and produced by Mott the Hoople’s Dale Griffin, who was kind enough to lend his ears to the young Finis that amazing spring Sunday in 1985 when they recorded their first John Peel session. The song became a live favourite, and its haunting melody stretches far over the forty years since its conception.”

The band’s first retrospective release, ‘The Sheer Action of Fini Tribe’ includes archival photographs, and essays by original member McGregor, longtime friend Shirley Manson (Garbage, Goodbye Mr. MacKenzie), and author Alastair McKay, an early champion of the band.

‘The Sheer Action of Fini Tribe: 1982-1987’ was recorded at Edinburgh’s Wilf’s Planet, Pier House, Niddry Street Rehearsal Rooms, Pleasance Theatre, and Calton Studios, and in London at Southern Studios and BBC Studios, Maida Vale.

Further FINI TRIBE information  HERE