Not to be confused with Killing Time who were English and I wrote about them in the blog. Today’s band, The Killing Time, hailed from Muirhouse, Motherwell, Scotland.

There’s a Soundcloud account by Westy50 that had uploaded one track by The Killing Time. That was 5 years ago and the song is really brilliant. The song is titled “Chance” and was recorded back in 1985 in Loanhead, Edinburgh.

We also got the names of the band members, which is great, Neil McPhail on guitar, Stephen Cogan on lead guitar and backing vocals, Johnny Mulhaul on drums, Westy on bass and Grant who I am not sure what he played (not clear for me, it says he played mouthy and general Bez things).

There’s a photo of the band there, where we see the 5 members. Well, 4, one of the members seems to have been cut off. It is the same photo I am using here in the blog.

I see then that Westy was also on another band called Real McCoy that sounds good. I should write about them next I think. In the meantime I need more info about The Killing Time. Another band uploaded to his account is External Menace. Was he involved in that band as well?

About their name, it is clear that they took it from the particular period of Scottish history with that same name…

The Killing Time was a period of conflict in Scottish history between the Presbyterian Covenanter movement, based largely in the south west of the country, and the government forces of Kings Charles II and James VII. The period, roughly from 1679 to the Glorious Revolution of 1688, was subsequently called The Killing Time by Robert Wodrow in his The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution, published in 1721–22. It is an important episode in the martyrology of the Church of Scotland.

But other than that I don’t seem to find any other info about them. I wonder if anyone remembers them and can share some info. I don’t think I have previously written about a Motherwell band, so hopefully I will also learn about their scene!

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Listen
The Killing Time – Chance