Thanks to Rick Fulton for reviewing our Album:

"SKA is a dirty word when you put it into the same breath as The Ordinary Boys.

Thankfully, Scotland keeps Two-Tone music alive through bands such as The Amphetameanies and also the Yellow Bentines. The first three songs on the Glaswegian four-piece's album use the ska rhythm on Down And Up, Madness doing Oasissounding Francesca andThe Bangles tinged And Then There's You, as well as at the end of the album on Anger!

But it's not all piano and trumpet that makes this album far more interesting. The Person You Want Me To Be has the melancholy of Athlete, while the band go all folky on Freelance Hippy Girl.

They play Hogshead, Shawlands, June 29, Not In The Park, Firewater, Glasgow, July 7, and King Tut's Glasgow on July 10. "

Due to unforeseen circumstances our gig in Miso tomorrow has been cancelled. I really am so very truly soo-ray.

Martin x

Many thanks to Ray Finlayson of 21st century music for reviewing our Haymarket Beanscene gig.

For the record it was our beautiful stand in trumpet player Helen who was with me that night.

Martin x

Read the review here

Who'd of thunk it?

We're playing 3 festivals this summer! Three!

We've now been confirmed to play the Beanscene tent at Indian Summer in Glasgow. It should be awesome, do come along kids.

Martin xx

Don't forget to pop along to Buff Club tonight for some YB action!

Also playing are The Only Jones & Le Teef.

Doors open at 8.

xx

Thanks to Suzanne Black from the list for reviewing our Album.

"Take one gentle Scottish indie band. Send away (some of) the guitars and draft in some brass, ivory and ebony. Sing about everything in a cheery manner so that elegies to lost relationships and the general injustices of life sound like good things. Congratulations: you are now Yellow Bentines. You can range from ska pop to bittersweet balladry with occasional digressions into fruity jazz, all with extreme articulacy. You can use piano, bass and drums to delimit the boundaries in which two exuberant trumpets and wavering vocals rollick about. You can charm with soulful, playful tunes. But can you prove that you are more than the sum of your parts?

***
(Suzanne Black)
The List"

The summer is finally here and what better way to celebrate this wonderful time of year than going to see the WHY BEES at a music festival. This summer we will be playing the Dunstaffnage and Connect Music festivals.

Playing alongside us at Connect will be:

Beastie Boys
Jarvis
Bjork
Mogwai
CSS
Primal Scream
The Divine Comedy
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Echo & The Bunnymen
Idlewild
Hot Chip
The Polyphonic Spree
Teenage Fanclub
1990s
Sons & Daughters
LCD Soundsystem
Regina Spektor
The Go Team
King Creosote
Rilo Kiley

Playing alongside us at Dunstaffnage will be:

Union of Knives
1990's
The Needles
The Rumble Strips
The Cinematics
The Law
Levellers
Pop up
How to swim
Dumb Instrument
O B E

Hope to see you there. x

Many thanks to our wonderful friend Chris McGarry for taking pictures of us at our Nice and Sleazy gig last Friday. Thanks also to Dougie and Ruairidh Galbraith for playing with us.... we were a six piece!

Check the pics out here.