The Bluebells’ Ken McCluskey and John McMustard of Colonel Mustard and the Dijon 5 on Soapyfest at Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom

We speak to some of the acts playing at the Barrowlands charity gig.

Transcript

00:00Okay, so Soapyfest is a celebration of the life of a guy called Soapy Souter, who is

00:07a big fan of the Barlowlands and a big fan of music. And a lot of the bands that you

00:11used to go and see, like Colonel Worcester, the Dijon Five, the Mickey Nines, the Filthy

00:17Tongues, the Gyro Babies, have all got together to put on a special night for charity, cancer

00:26charities. This Sunday, the 31st of August at the Barlowlands, it's an early start, six

00:30o'clock, finish at half ten so you can go up the road and go to work the next day. And

00:35at the end of it, I'm going to come on and do a song with the Colonel Worcester, Dijon Five

00:40and a few of the other bands as a sort of encore. It's a big surprise what the song is.

00:44It's just going to be a big carnival festival atmosphere. All of the bands are kind of festival

00:50veterans, so it's all about having a big party and a big celebration. So every band's

00:55going to do a James cover because that was John's favourite band. So we've all got one

01:00specially selected, but we're not allowed to say. John McMustard of the Dijon Five asked me

01:06and I just went, yeah, why not? Because they were all obviously very upset when Soapie passed away

01:12and just thought it would be a great idea to put together a great bill. John was a friend,

01:18met him through the music scene. I think we first met at Avant-Garde and just got to know each other and

01:25it's always like a flamboyant dresser and right away a guy that was up talking to you and full of beans

01:32and full of confidence. And he loved us, the fact that there's a gig in his honour and he was just a

01:40great guy and a true supporter. The people like that are so important.