Declan Welsh and The Decadent West

city: Glasgow
country: UK
genre: Rock
styles: Indie Rock, Alternative

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credits: Graham Noble

on hashbrandnew.com since April 11, 2022

ABOUT THIS BAND

Like most young men who grew up in East Kilbride – “the Milton Keynes of Scotland, just houses and nothing else" – Declan Welsh wanted to be a footballer at a young age. After discovering that this required early morning training and a level of discipline beyond his capabilities, he then took up guitar as a hobby. Despite coming from a family of performers, he never thought that music would be such a big part of his life.

As he began to find his own musical identity through the likes of Nico and The Velvet Underground (“a rite of passage for any 13-year-old who thinks they’re interesting”), Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand and The Strokes; Declan quickly learnt that not only would pursuing a career in music be a fun way to avoid having a real job, but it was a fulfilling means of expression that allowed him to turn his mundane observations on our socio-political climate into riotous indie songs that would provide him a vehicle to understand the world, and try to make a difference in it.

When it came to forming The Decadent West, Ben Corlett – a bassist and fellow East Kilbridean – was Declan’s first port of call. First joining forces in high school, on the first ever song that Declan wrote, the pair struck up a brotherly bond which has seen them play together for almost ten years. Completing the line-up of the culturally engaged quartet is guitarist Duncan McBride and drummer Murray Noble.

Source [Spotify]