Obviously, the Guireans are the original and purest artistes in the genre of Avante Gaelic Obscurist Folk Rock (AGOFR).
Some lesser practitioners of the genre have their websites listed below:
aka "Lechends of AGOFR 30th Anniversary Tour"
Find out more about the mysterious Ewetube sensations from Sounds in the Grounds 2009
Overproduced pomp-AGOFR rooted in 70s prog virtuosity and verging dangerously close to "proper" music.
Early-80s Matheson Road AGOFR dilettantes and townie rivals to the Guireans
The Made Up History of Stornoway
This completely untrue series of articles about the Outer Hebrides' capital could be termed Avante Gaelic Obscurist Folk History
Go to the Library and find out everything you never wanted to know about the Guireans and their place in Avante Gaelic Obscurist Folk Rock mythology.
Hosted within a high-end supercomputer simulation of a dilapidated portakabin on Keith Street, the Library includes the band bio/tapeography, live appearances, links, old news - all the stuff that used to be on the old Guireans msn groups site
Now if only we could get rid of the virtual old bleigeards who come in every day and lurk in the reference section...
For the less historical stuff - live and current Guireans blogs, comments etc.
Guireans News!!
What's Fresh in the World of AGOFR?
9/01/2010 AGOFR Supergroup Pages Finally Added
We've finally got round to adding some fleekeen pages for the Avante Gaelic Obscurist Folk Rock Supergroup, who actually played 2 nearly proper gigs last year. Download MP3s from their Murderers of Love support geeg at the Woodland Centre on 12 September, See video of their Sounds In The Grounds appearance, pictyursh, read the reviews (and weep) etc etc.
7/3/2009 Guireans infilrate Dylan/Cash Night at Woodlands
Following the Western Isles New Music Trust's inexplicable failure to invite any AGOFR acts to play their prestigious Bob Dylan/Johnny Cash tribute night yesterday, Plook Records' special forces were despatched on a highly secret special mission to sneak in and play anyway.
Carefully disguised as proper musicians "Roddy Huggan" and "Iain Watson", and assisted by local partisans Mr & Mrs Froagie Beag, covert Plook Records operatives planted AGOFR lyrics in the middle of an otherwise legitimate cover of "Ring of Fire". Full story on the Guireans myspace page, maybe.
6/3/2009 - Actorr Now Treading the Boards
Fleek's sake Actorrr, musician and general renaissance Guirean Roddy "The Thin White Plook" Morrison really genuinely is NOT resting. The cadaverous thespian is appearing in Wildbird Theatre's "Fall of the Peacock Throne" at Southwark Playhouse in fleekeen London now!
9/2/2009 - L*x Int*rior RIP Song Competition
The race is on to suggest a suitable Guireans tribute track for late Cr*mps frontman L*x Int*rior. Ma$$ive prizes might be won! Bonus prize if we can combine it with something for thon latest casualty from L*n*r*d Sk*n*r*d. And maybe J*hn M*rt*n as well. And possibly D*ve D*e D*zy B**ky Mick and T*tch!
Click Here for full competition details!
Guireans-related-bands who aren't AGOFR but are too mean to buy their own web domain names...
Sandwick's meanest rockinest 60s garage combo (of the 1980s)
Bio, tapeography, pictures, videos etc.
21st century descendants of the Subterraneans, on myspace and garageband
O mo chreach - Mysterious Gaelic-only garage/psyche combo from somewhere in the Isle of Lewis and not related to any Guireans at all
Easy listening folk/pop acoustic singer/songwriter with no connection to any of the above.
Occasional Guirean Roddy "Rod Morison" Morrison's musical outpourings (when he's not being in Kroftwerk)