Story behind Colonel Mustard and the Dijon 5 at Glasgow’s Barrowland

We speak to John McMustard from Colonel Mustard and the Dijon 5.

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00:00I'm John McMustard from Colonel Mustard and the Dijon 5. I've been in band since I was 16 so we

00:06actually used to rehearse in the Barrowlands when there was rehearsal rooms so we used to sneak

00:11upstairs and watch and don't tell Tom the manager we used to sneak upstairs and watch like Ian Brown

00:19and Primal Scream and just all the kind of 90s and early 2000 bands like the Chemical Brothers

00:26and the Prodigy and it was just a fantastic time for music and that was so inspiring but even being

00:33downstairs and hearing the kind of music flowing through the building and the building shaking

00:39it was so inspiring so we just started out just a group of pals and it's still the drummer from

00:46those original days and my brother-in-law Roddy that plays percussion we are still a part of it and

00:53some of our friends that we've met along the way for Colonel Mustard and the Dijon 5 we started in

00:59about 2010 and our first album came out in 2014 so it was the 10 year anniversary last year

01:09but it's just always been about festivals and partying and carnivals and all singing all dancing

01:15and a part of that's about the fun carnival aspect to what we do but it's also about when we're playing

01:30a gig getting people moving getting people laughing smiling all all important things for your mental

01:36health and when I'm a punter at a gig when I used to do you know and I still do I go to gigs at the

01:42Barrowlands and I love the moments where people are interacting with the crowd whether that's the

01:48Mary Wallapals or St Paul and the Broken Bones or Primal Scream like that moment of crowd interaction is

01:55always my favourite bit so I like to do that in every single song and get the crowd as involved as

02:02possible and to the point they feel a part of the band and aye that's always been the sort of blueprint or

02:09the yellow print for me to to have that level of kind of symbiosis with an audience and still is to

02:15this day and yeah I don't know that we've ever felt like part of a big scene but the yellow movement

02:24kind of became a thing and it's not in any is really talk about a lot but for us that was more about the

02:32people the fans that used to come and buy the t-shirts and there was obviously lots of bands and most of

02:37them are playing soapy fest that were involved with that but that sort of became its own thing where

02:43it's just the fans of all of the bands coming together and going to festivals together and you

02:49know having a good time so aye for me it's it's always been just about doing your own thing and

02:56I think Glasgow's great because it's got so many scenes

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