String Driven Thing

String Driven Thing are a folk rock band from Scotland, originally formed in the 1960s and led by husband and wife Chris Adams and Pauline Adams. The band also featured the electric violin of Graham Smith.
In 2007, the band released ‘Moments of Truth’, their first studio album in over 30 years.
(Read more at Wikipedia.)
== Links To Peel ==
The band recorded five sessions for Peel between 1972 and 1976, with the lineup on the last two featuring guitarist Andy Roberts, (previously Liverpool Scene, etc). They were among the many artists featured on Peel shows of this period who recorded for Tony Stratton-Smith's Charisma label, although, unlike most of that label's artists, they had a radio hit, "It's A Game", which received plenty of airplay in 1973 and made the UK charts in 1977 in a cover version by the Bay City Rollers
From available playlists, JP does not seem to have played their hit, but he did praise their second LP, The Machine That Cried, in 1973 (see below) and in 1976 chose a track by them which had a football reference in the title.
== Festive Fifty Entries ==
*None
== Sessions ==
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Five sessions. No known commercial release.
1. Recorded 1972-09-11. First broadcast 19 September 1972.
* Regent Street / Circus / Let Me Down / Jack Diamond
2. Recorded 1972-11-06. First broadcast 28 November 1972.
* Hooked On The Road / My Real Hero / Regent Street Incident / Let Me Down
3. Recorded 1973-09-24. First broadcast 08 November 1973 (JP says their album is "'worth getting into', as we say in the music business, but mean practically nothing when we say it").
*Two Timing Rama / Night Club / The Machine That Cried / To See You
4. Recorded 1974-08-08. First broadcast 15 August 1974. Repeated 12 September 1974.
*Overdrive / Keep On Moving / To Know You / Man Of Means / Black Eyed Queen
5. Recorded: 1976-03-04. First broadcast 29 March 1976 
*Things We Said Today / But I Do / Starving In The Tropics ("their finest number, in my view")
== Other Shows Played ==
*23 October 1973: Sold Down The River (LP - The Machine That Cried) Charisma 
*01 November 1973: Night Club (album - The Machine That Cried) Charisma 
*20 January 1976: Chains (I Wanna Be Just Like Stan Bowles) (LP - Keep Yer 'And On It) Charisma (song lyric namechecks Bowles, the noted 1970s Queens Park Rangers footballer, at the end, as it fades)
== See Also ==
*Cover Versions
*Scotland: Sessions
*Disc & Music Echo: Peel Columns
== External Links ==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
*Official site
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