Nyah Fearties were a music band from the village of Lugton, Scotland that created a near-unique brand of anarchic modern folk between the group's formation in 1982 and break-up in 1995. Combining the rich traditional music and storytelling culture of its native Ayrshire with a jarring punk ethos, madcap humour and improvised acoustic instrumentation (though usually amplified), the band made a significant contribution to the British folk-punk scene of the 1980s and 1990s. It often tested live audiences with a feedback-laced aural assault more akin to experimental rock groups like Velvet Underground or The Jesus and Mary Chain than an acoustic folk act. In addition Nyah Fearties were known for utilising all manner of improvised and imaginative musical paraphernalia. Examples of the latter included bashing upturned metal dustbins to create percussion and the use of an archaic gramophone upon which Andy Stewart records were 'scratched' in t

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