It’s clear that video director Rachel Maclean has seen Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (the original!), Holy Mountain, and Monty Python, as her direction on the new acid-drenched video for The Phantom ...

'Somebody described the first gig we did with me in the band as sounding like a wardrobe full of coat hangers rolling around," says Andy Wake, keyboard player with the Phantom Band. "It wasn't a ...

“BRUISED but still standing,” were Phantom Band frontman Rick Anthony’s apt words after proposing a toast to the future health of the Art School’s Mackintosh building, which was badly damaged by fire ...

With their second album, The Wants, gaining our coveted TLOBF Recommended tag, and their debut album blowing away most of the British pop dirge in front of it, The Phantom Band are on a roll. I got ...

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Making their London headlining debut, the Phantom Band are in the unenviable position of having to justify the rave reviews won by their album, Checkmate Savage. It's a tall order, living up to ...

Meanwhile, north of the wall, Scotland is getting its Moog on. With Mogwai having already released an album this year that primarily replaced their huge, clunking distorted guitars for weathered ...

The Phantom Band are a riddle wrapped in a mystery wrapped inside an enigma. OK, they’re not really, they’re just six guys living in Glasgow making music, but as their ephemeral name suggests there is ...

Exactly when the Phantom Band formed is hard to say because their name arose from the fact that they chose to change guise for every gig or art happening they played. Robert Redford, Robert Louis ...