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Pronounced Goo-thans (1979) 

 

EMI Cassette Super C60 (Unreleased) (1980)

 

Jazz Mucus for Funk People EP (1982)

 

Winter Feis (Live Appearance 1982)

 

Olacs Volume 79 (1983)

 

Midges Of Rock (Live Appearance) (1983)

 

Mehags Agus Fuidheags (1984)

 

Calan Bow Gets Run Over (1984)

 

Bogie Goes to Bennadrove (1985)

 

Ch***y Al*ne Picks The Guireans (Compilation 1985)

 

Hey Hey We're Gordon Macleod's Guireans (1986)

 

The Cac Album (1987/88)

 

Guireans on 45 (1988)

 

Live At The Cross Inn (5/7/1988)

 

The Brag Demos + Free Muriel Gray (1989)

 

J*** S**** is a H***s*x**l (1989)

 

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Alasdair Mackay Is God (Sorry - Bod) (2002)

 

How Much Mor Cac Could It Be? - The Midges of Rock 2003

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Press Releases and Reviews for "Alasdair Mackay Is God (Sorry - Bod)" (2002)
 
NEW GUIREANS LP RELEASE IMMINENT?!
Reported in the "Stornoway Cassette" Sunday 6 January 2002:
Plook Records supremo Kenneth C "Seymour Steinish" Livingstein III yesterday did not deny rumours that the label was about to launch the Guireans' first new recording in 10 years on an unsuspecting world.
 
Speculation began after residents of Stornoway's exclusive Barony Square neighbourhood had to be evacuated on Friday afternoon, due to what were described as "sgreadan uamhasach"  emanating from the dingy bedsit studio of "resting" "actor" and undernourished Bowie obsessive Roddy "Twiggy Stardust" Morrison.
 
While distressing sounds from alleged "musician" Morrison's premises are evidently not an uncommon occurrence, investigators from the Plasterfield Institute of Advanced Precenting suspect that the particular nature of Friday's aural disaster can only be attributable to another outbreak of Sandwick's worst ever "pop" group, thought by many to have been eradicated in the early 90s.
 
Survivors' testimony to the Plasterfield boffins spoke of brutal attacks on a variety of songs by artists ranging from Wheatus to Oasis, The Rolling Stones and James Petrie. These are typical of the Guireans' modus operandi. However, there are also reports of tuned guitars and proper chords being used in several of these assaults, leading to fears that other organisations may have been involved. "We could be looking at some kind of unprecedented Guireans/Dun Ringles supergroup activity here", speculated an unnamed Plasterfield source. "If that's the case then may Philomena Begley help us all".
 
A sighting (by a particularly gullible member of the public) of suspected Guireans chief Alasdair "Bod" Mackay fleeing the island on Thursday's ferry reinforced suspicions of diversionary tactics. Mackay is thought by some to have engaged the services of down-at-heel 80s popster Morrisey to act conspicuously as his double on the ferry, thus providing the alibi which would allow Mackay to participate - uncredited - in the Barony Square atrocity.
 
All this - as well as speculation  that the new release might be called "Alasdair Mackay is God (Sorry - Bod)" - was not denied by shady Plook CEO Livingstein III.