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The Receiving End

The Receiving End

The Receiving End pair direct guitar songwriting with a distinctly local independent spirit, preserved through rare demo recordings.

Featured on Sundown Sessions
1 broadcast
First featured
12 June 2024
Last featured
Sundown Sessions #2 12 June 2024
Tracks played
3

About The Receiving End

The Receiving End were a Scottish guitar band fronted by Danny Holland, with Bill Thaw and Ian Douglas in the line-up documented by Sundown Sessions. The surviving recordings heard in Show #2 include “That’s the Way I Operate!”, “He’s the Man” and “Nothing’s Wrong”. Public documentation is limited, so this profile deliberately records only details supported by the broadcast and its source material.

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