Cosmic Rough Riders is tagged as: scottish, indie, power pop, folk, indie pop The Cosmic Rough Riders are a pop/rock band from Glasgow, Scotland. They were originally formed in 1998 by Daniel Wylie and Stephen Fleming, and later they were joined by Mark Brown and James Clifford. Daniel made two solo albums under the guise of CRR, “Deliverance” in 1999 and “Panorama” in 2000. Local musician Stephen Fleming was brought in to engineer and play guitar on the “Panorama” sessions. After the album was complete, Wylie invited him to become a full time member of CRR: “we were both unemployed and I didn’t have any money to pay Stephen for his work, so I agreed to split everything 50/50 with him. I even gave him 50% of the song writing credit on my songs which he had nothing to do with writing. Such was my naivety of the music business at the time”. Alan McGee received a copy of “Panorama” from its sleeve designer (and old band mate) David Wells. McGee wanted to see the band live (not knowing it wasn’t actually a band of course), so a band was hastely put together to showcase for him. McGee loved what he saw and wanted to sign the whole group. Wylie was 41 years old at the time and not wanting to blow this long awaited opportunity, agreed to sign as a band to Poptones. McGee had an idea ... Read More About Cosmic Rough Riders Biography...  Send Cosmic Rough Riders ringtones to your cell
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