Daniel Harkins and Aidan Callaghan got to know each other on the bus from Falkirk to Glasgow, and started a ‘trash punk garbage rock band’ in high school together. This eventually grew into a five-piece, named after an ancient group of travelling mercenaries, who in the winter turned to playing music for food: the Brògeal. With influences from Scottish and Irish folk music and instruments like banjo, mandolin and grandad’s accordion, they play “true Scottish pop music that is too folk for the indie kids and too indie for the folk dads”.