The Great Pleasure Album Launch + Azamiah

The Great Pleasure launch their hotly anticipated debut album at The Art School.

The 12 piece supergroup consists of members from Glasvegas, Corto Alto, Azamiah, Pippa Blundell, Kai Reesu, Kitti and Tom McGuire and the Brassholes.

A jazz, gypsy punk, rock n roll, surf fusion that

feels like an Italian car chase in the roaring

20's.

'The Great Pleasure' are Gillian Christie &

Marc Molloy backed by a

monster supergroup of Scottish talent.

Christopher Dickie (Glasvegas, illi) on

drums, Norman Villeroux (Azamiah, Pippa

Blundell) on bass & Timmy Allan (Awkward

Family Portraits, BBC Radio Scotland Young

Jazz Musician of the year) on guitar.

Backing vocals from Alex Hynes (Quick),

Tom McGuire (Tom McGuire and the Brassholes)

& Charlotte Marshall (Charlotte Marshall &

The 45s) &Olivia Jane (Holy Ghost Town)

and Brass from the Harry Weir trio (Corto

Alto, Kai Reesu).

They sold out two huge

headline shows in 2025. Their debut show at

the Oran Mor 29/1, as part of Celtic

Connections, and second sell out at Stereo

22/7. As well as a slew of festival

appearances including Electric Picnic, C2C & headlining a stage at

Eden festival.

The Great Pleasure began with Marc Molloy

& Gillian Christie, writing songs and travelling

the world, getting caught up in all sorts of

mischief.

Run-ins with the Thai mafia in Bangkok, Hell's

angels in the Netherlands and finding

themselves in the middle of dreamy

performances in Interscope records private

club on Sunset boulevard, Los Angeles, was an

alchemic source of inspiration for a pair of

excitement seeking songwriters.

Live show

The band was formed with an unexpected

debut at Irelands biggest festival, Electric

Picnic, after a demo of an old song 'Swamp

folk' caught some traction in music circles.

They were offered a slot with only a months

notice and hastily put together a band and hit

the road.

The gig was a smash hit, "one of the best

acts they'd had on the stage" according to

the production team, and the band had an

immediate chemistry.

It made sense to hit the studios and capture

some of that magic. The spent the following

year recording their debut album at 45-a-side

studios with Paul McInally with an incredible

band of Scottish musical talent.