As mentioned on my previous post on Killing Time, members of this band went to be later in another one called The Real McCoy.

On the Soundcloud account by Westy50 there are actually two songs by The Real McCoy: “Hometown” and “Working Girl”. And they sound quite fine to me.

I assume The Real McCoy was also based in Muirhose, Motherwell, Scotland. About the members I know at least one of them was in both bands, Westy (who I don’t know his real name sadly). He was the bassist in The Killing Time so I am also guessing he was the bassist in The Real McCoy.

Their name clearly comes from the idiom and metaphor used in much of the English-speaking world to mean “the real thing” or “the genuine article”, e.g. “he’s the real McCoy”. The phrase has been the subject of numerous false etymologies. 

On the song “Hometown” we get some details. It mentions that this track was recorded in a basement in Penicuik many years ago. They also say that their claim to fame was that they watched the World Cup final with Ricky Ross and supported Oasis before they were Oasis.

I wonder which World Cup would that be? 1990?

Someone called Stephen McGuire comments too. He says that he loves the song and he had made a version of the song with Kev on a casio drum machine. I want to guess Kev was part of the band, but don’t think Stephen was.

The second song, “Working Girl”, was recorded in 1991 at Coatbridge and was engineered by Ted Blakeway.

I will say again that I believe Westy was in the punk band External Menace later on as there are recordings of this band on his account. Other than that I don’t have any other info about them.

So again, any help will be appreciated!

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Listen
The Real McCoy – Hometown