Guireans
Contacts
Old and
Current
Guireans
and
Associated
Sad
People
can be
contacted
at the
following
e-mail
addresses.
If you
fall
into any
of these
categories,
or
you're
just
pathetic,
and want
to be
added to
the
list,
post a
message
or let
someone
who's on
it
already
know.
aka
Guireans
- A
Guirean
since
1979 and
never
had the
sense to
see what
an *&^e
he was
making
of
himself.
aka
Memphis
Louie
- Not
who you
might
think,
but
Roddy
Huggan
-
Guirean
since
1982's
Jazz
Mucus
for Funk
People
and
didn't
care
what an
a*&e he
was
making
of
himself.
aka
Ken
"Ritchie
Blackmore"
L
-
Original
Guirean
and
opportunistic
part-time
returner.
Known as
the
"Accountant
of Badly
Played
Rubbish" (hence
the
"ca" bit
of the
e-mail
address).
Aspiring
movie
auteur
and
perpetrator
of "The
Guireans
Video"
and "Les
Mauvaises
Jeunes".
aka
the
hammer
(something
to do
with an
old
Rangers
player,
apparently)
- James
"Jimmy"
"Checko"
Petrie,
original 1979
Guirean,
and juniorest
member
of the
group. Left
the
band,
aged 12,
after
the
disastrous
"EMI
Cassette
Super
C60", to
concentrate
on his
education.
Which
consisted
of
learning
to smoke
fags
without
spewing,
round
the back
of
Geordie
Golidy's,
with
some
coves
from
Plasterfield.
Guireans
founder
member
and
Moby stunt
double Gordon
may not
thank
you for
reminding
him of
his
past,
but if
you want
to make
a few
quid you
could
always
e-mail
him and
tell him
you've
got a
recording
of "And
I Love
Her"...
The
legendary
Wattie,
non-Guirean
but
doyen of
the
townie
AGOFR
scene
and
author
of the
infamous AGOFR
A-Z.
Foreswore
his
townie
upbringing
in later
life and
embraced
a
fundamentalist
branch of Rubhachism,
retreating
to the
reclusive
mystic
commune
in Knock
where he
now
resides.
Donalda
"Donalda"
Macleod.
Pioneer
of
Gothic
Bacach
chic and
manager
of Roddy
Huggan
in the
early
80s.
Uncredited Executive
Producer
and
Location
Security
Coordinator
on Ken
Livingstone's
1983
movie "Les
Mauvaises
Jeunes". Donalda
was in
the
Bayhead
swing
park
during
filming
of the
bit when
the
Guireans
were
shot,
and
scared
off some
heavy
dudes
who were
going to
batter
Roddy
for
being
dressed
up as a
poncy
French
art
fart.
Meantime
Groupie
Duncan
"Dunky"
Kerr.
Simultaneously
a Goth
and a
Hun, responsible
for
saving
Roddy
Huggan
from a
decline
into
alcoholism
in the
1980s by
drinking
all Roddy's
booze
before
he got
anywhere
near it.
Subject
of
a verse in
Jesus
and Mary
Chain
rip-off
"Some
Sandy
Talkin'"
on
1986's "Hey
Hey
We're
Gordon
Macleod's
Guireans"
- "Here
comes
Dunky/He's
such a
Punky/He
used to
look
like
me/Now
he looks
like
Wayne
Hussey...etc".
Now runs
a
massive
digital
remastering
and
distribution
plant in
Corstorphine,
which
turned
out the
2002 CD
release
of
"Alasdair
Mackay
Is God
(Sorry -
Bod)"
Sinister
Matheson
Road Pop
Svengali
and Tape
Records
supremo
CJ
Mitchell's
latest
enterprise
- a
record
label
for
Avante
Gaelic
Obscurist Folk
Rock
bands
who live
in
Chicago.
Must be
some
sort of
tax
dodge.
Cadaverous
Thespian, Johnny
Pluckan
Wannabe and
Best Pal
of Thon
Cove In
The
Waterboys,
and
not a
pal of
Al*n
D**k at
all,
honest, this
is
Roddy
"The
Thin
White
Plook"
Morrison.
Not sure
which
Rod
Morison
this
gets you
though.
The
Actorrr's
80s-pop
alter-ego
Some
Random
Guy
may not
answer.