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Guitar World
Guitar World
Entertainment
Henry Yates

“We were falling about the studio floor laughing when I was playing. People started coming into the control room, like, ‘What is going on with these three guys? It’s an absolute racket!’”Meet High Fade, the Scottish funk-punk heroes we need right now

Harry Valentino of Scottish funk-rockers High Fade surfs the crowd and plays guitar during one high-octane show.

If you walked through downtown Edinburgh in February – and stopped to tip the three buskers funking it up in sub-zero temperatures – then you’ll already know High Fade’s Twice As Nice.

“There’s people who probably unsuspectingly heard three-quarters of the new album,” reflects frontman/guitarist Harry Valentino. “Busking is still our secret weapon, and Scotland is the best place to do it. It’s freezing. None of these people have bought a ticket. They have zero investment. But the video of us busking the first single, Swamp, got almost a million views.”

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