Hugh Reed and the Velvet Underpants

Hugh Reed and the Velvet Underpants have toured with The Fall, Half Man Half Biscuit and have supported Mogwai, Simple Minds and ‘Belle and Sebastian’ and recently the Alabama 3. Now playing summer festivals – ButeFest, Doune the Rabbit Hole, Belladrum etc. Presently signed to the ‘Last Night From Glasgow’ label, a new album will come out in 2025.

Following local TV appearances his band The Velvet Underpants were invited by Deborah Harry of the band ‘Blondie’ to support her on 11 dates throughout Britain. This culminated in Hugh and Debs doing a live duet of Waiting for the Man, which can be watched on YouTube. Deborah also faxed Lou to tell him about Hugh.

The band’s two albums Take a Walk on the Clydeside was released receiving a lot of radio play not just in UK but also throughout, Europe, America and Canada.

Hugh describes himself as ‘multi talentless’ and is seen in a cameo role in the coolest film of the nineties Trainspotting - More recently he acted in the Jackie Chan movie ’12 Zodiacs’ as a butler and has also appeared many times on CCTV - Chinese TV in many acting roles, living for a time in Beijing, China.

Hugh previously toured extensively throughout the U.K., Germany, Holland, Belgium, Denmark and Ireland. Hugh has relocated to Beijing, and recorded his next album ‘Ni fa feng le ma?’ (R U Crazy? -in Chinese)

+44 (0)7719258822 (UK) hughreed621@yahoo.co.uk

Hugh Reed and the Velvet Underpants –

I’d rather have a bottle in front of me -than a full-frontal lobotomy.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXpNtTGVP_k

(Video location, Temple Bar, Beijing)

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