Gordon Bell is a Scottish

Scotland

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 singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 based in Basel

Basel

Basel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany...

, Switzerland

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. He is prolific having released ten albums in as many years. Eight of those albums were under the pseudonym Gustav Bertha. His breakthrough fifth album My Life as a Dog (distributed in Switzerland through RecRec) was well received: Swiss newspaper Der Bund

Der Bund

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called it 'Wunderbar',. The Swiss press has also dubbed him with the slightly more ambiguous title, "The World's least-known Scot". He stopped working under the Gustav Bertha pseudonym in 2008 to write and play as Gordon Bell. Gordon's music could be compared to a strange cross between fellow Glaswegians

Glasgow

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 Ivor Cutler

Ivor Cutler

Ivor Cutler was a Scottish poet, songwriter and humorist. He became known for his regular performances on BBC radio, and in particular his numerous sessions recorded for John Peel's influential radio programme, and later for Andy Kershaw's programme...

 and Alex Harvey

Alex Harvey (musician)

Alex Harvey was a Scottish rock musician. With The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, he built a reputation as an exciting live performer during the 1970s glam rock era.-Biography:...

. He has a penchant for storytelling in his songs. He plays live with Kat Kunz on bass and Professor Ray Gunn on drums as Gordon Bell & The Sinking Ships. He is also lead singer with a tribute to The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Not The Sensational Alex Harvey Band.

Discography

with One in Five

• Five Flew Over the Hatchery (1991)

with Psychoannie

• Amoeba (1993)

as plasticpsychobabble

• StranGe enchantment (1999)
• submerging meadows green boundaries (2000)
• blurred visions for fuzzy strangers (2000)

with The Secret Life of Andrew Aston

• Caffeine Injunction (2000)

as Gustav Bertha

• Songs for Gigi (2001)
• The Hose Room (2002)
• Café Crème (2002)
• babble (2003)
• My Life as a Dog (2004)
• Defective (2005)
• z:06 (2006 - compilation)
• small adventures in the great domestic wilderness (2007)
• True North (2008)

as Gordon Bell

• Songs for the Broken Hearted (2009)
• The Lost Art of Penance (2010)

External links

• Gordon Bell's Official Site
• Gordon Bell & The Sinking Ships
• Not The Sensational Alex Harvey Band