Goodbye Mr Mackenzie is a Scottish alternative rock band from Bathgate, formed in 1981. Rooted in the alternative rock genre, the group performs as a rock band from Scotland.
Next date in Glasgow: 11 December at Barrowland Ballroom.
Goodbye Mr Mackenzie on tour elsewhere in United Kingdom
One date announced outside London:
- Glasgow Barrowland Ballroom See the date
Upcoming dates
1 upcoming date
Upcoming concerts
Profile
- Latest album
- 2019: Live: A Night in the Windy City (2020)
- Formed
- 1981 · Bathgate
- Label
- Capitol Records
About — The artist
Goodbye Mr Mackenzie is a Scottish rock band formed in Bathgate near Edinburgh. At the band's commercial peak, the line-up consisted of Martin Metcalfe on vocals, John Duncan on guitar, Fin Wilson on bass guitar, Shirley Manson and Rona Scobie on keyboards and backing vocals, and Derek Kelly on drums.
The band came to prominence in the early 1980s after releasing two independent label singles, and were signed to Capitol Records. They charted in the United Kingdom with their debut album, Good Deeds and Dirty Rags and single release "The Rattler", but the band were hindered by record company conflicts and failed to break through outside the UK. The band split up in 1993, leaving Manson, Metcalfe, Wilson and Kelly to form Angelfish to continue recording music. Manson left for Garbage in 1994, and Goodbye Mr Mackenzie played their final live show at the end of 1995.
In 2019, Goodbye Mr Mackenzie reformed and embarked on a tour of Scotland. Manson did not join her former bandmates due to work commitments with Garbage. Metcalfe claimed that the band had asked Manson to join them on the tour, claiming that "people do not realise how busy she is". That same year, they re–issued Good Deeds and Dirty Rags, and in 2024, re–released their third album Five, which debuted at number five on the albums charts in Scotland.
Text adapted from the Wikipedia article “Goodbye Mr Mackenzie” (en), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Discography
- Good Deeds and Dirty Rags 1988
- Hammer and Tongs 1990
- Five 1993
- Live: On the Day of Storms 1993
- The Glory Hole 1995
- The River Sessions / The Day of Storms 2005
- 2019: Live: A Night in the Windy City 2020