Ocean Colour Scene delivered one of the most memorable gigs of the decade when they played three legendary nights at Stirling Castle.
Now 25 years on, I met with the band’s frontman Simon Fowler in Edinburgh to look back on his incredible career and get a taste of what it was like to be part of the Britpop era.
It was in 1998, following the release of their chart-topping third album Marchin’ Already, that they embarked on their own headline arena tour and played those three sold-out nights at Stirling Castle - gigs that are still discussed fondly to this day.
Simon joked: “I was slightly disappointed ’cause I realised we were playing in the car park. For some reason I thought we’d be in the ramparts.
“But we did three nights there and we had a load of mad pipers on the first night. It was 25 years ago - I think that we should revisit that at some point.”
Jumping on that gem of an idea, I said “you have to!”
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