Flower power as band unveil fresh new song

Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5 have released their first new music in four years on Coatbridge-based label Button Up Records.

- MICHAEL PRINGLE

The new single Wild Flowers comes hot on the heels of their fantastic performance supporting legendary reggae band UB40.

Wild Flowers, which features Dumfries Community Choir, has the hallmarks of a feel good summer anthem and is quite unlike anything the music collective has produced before.

Frontman, John (McAlinden) McMustard, who is from Moodiesburn, explained: “It's about appreciating the little and exciting things in life, wild flowers, summer strangers, simple pleasures and buried treasure and of course love.

“It came about from the Sunday Songwriting group I was part of a few years ago, the challenge initially was to write a haiku.

“So the first three lines are from the Japanese poetry tradition.

“I love the simplicity, five syllables, then seven syllables, then five syllables about nature and not rhyming. I think Wild Flowers has under 40 words. I love the simplicity of that.

“The message is universal and simple – ‘live your life for love’. Just a shame these thoughts or messages never seem to reach our politicians.

“We might be entering our classic rock phase, although next single might easily be a happy hardcore tune.