om McGuire & the Brassholes are a funk soul powerhouse from Glasgow. Combining rich arrangements with meticulous songcraft and untouchable in live performance, the band is carving a niche of their own. Following the success of their 2019 debut album, the group is ready to enter into an exciting 2nd phase.

The band formed busking on the streets of Glasgow and made a living from playing bars before bursting onto the scene with runaway viral debut single “Ric Flair”. Mere months later the band launched their debut album with a sellout show at the 1000+ capacity QMU in Glasgow. Since then they have gone on to secure support slots for Craig Charles and Geroge Clinton, have become a firm favourite on the festival circuit, headlining a number of scottish festivals, and have toured extensively in the U.K and Europe.

The band’s music is full of vitality, the sound of a new niche being cut, classic pop sensibility with high musicianship values and rewarding arrangement and rich production. At the root is soulfull song, telling stories and sharing experiences of joy, turmoil, loss, celebration, sadness, happiness, confidence, frailty. All told hyper distilled and delivered in finely honed funk pop parcels of aesthetic joy. Life is confusing and hard, but music is fun and great, so let’s talk about it whilst at one and the same time, getting down.

TOUCAN, aka Conor Clancy, is a pop, funk, and soul artist from Tramore, Ireland.

After releasing his debut single, he quickly gained fans from around the world, accumulating over 4 Million Spotify streams and gathering listeners from Ireland, the UK, USA, and Australia. His debut single reached the Top 10 in Spotify’s ‘Ireland Viral 50’, the Top 30 in the iTunes Singles Charts and climbed to #2 in the rock charts.

Over the last few years, he has built up a cult following of extremely dedicated fans, playing sold-out shows across the UK & Ireland in venues such as Whelan’s, Cyprus Avenue, The Islington, The Academy and the Omeara.

He has been special guest to international artists such as Nile Rodgers, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, James Blunt, and most recently Dadi Freyr on his 2023 European Tour. He has been featured at Electric Picnic, Other Voices, Love Supreme, Mostly Jazz Funk & Soul, The Cork Jazz Festival, Knockanstockan, and Meltdown, a festival curated by Nile Rodgers.

Combining a classic soulful style with modern pop sensibilities, TOUCAN’s music has an infectious feel-good factor in music that sounds timeless.