Debut album · out now
Chasing Shadows
The debut album from Glasgow’s Restricted Code — on strictly limited yellow vinyl.
The album
Chasing
Shadows
Ten tracks of classy Scotpop. #34 in the UK Official Scottish Albums Chart in week one — on limited yellow vinyl and gatefold CD.
Restricted Code · noun
/rɪˈstrɪktɪd kəʊd/
A way of speaking, shaped by class and place — terse, shared, rooted.
Named after Basil Bernstein’s theory of language and class. Two boys from Easterhouse — one bound for the Glasgow School of Art, the other an English degree — took it as a joke, and have been elaborating ever since. The full story →
- BBC Radio
- The Scotsman
- NME
- The Face
- Melody Maker
- IrvineBeat FM
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Live
On tour
The band
Forty years in the making
Restricted Code began in the post-punk Glasgow of 1978 — part of the original Sound of Young Scotland, signed to Bob Last’s Pop:aural, touring with The Human League and recording a John Peel session. They split in 1981, then reunited decades later around their original core.
The line-up
Tom Cannavan — vocals
Frank Quadrelli — guitar
Kenny Blythe — bass
Robert McCormick — keys
Les Gaff — drums
Watch
Worlds Collide
“I fell in love with them back in 1979 — and I’m in love with them again now.”Billy Sloan · BBC Radio · April 2020
