GLASGOW band The Strange Blue Dreams are a relatively niche band.

But you may know them from their cameo role in the ITV series, In Plain Sight or as their alter egos The Shiverin’ Sheiks.

Dave Addison, Richard Anderson, Duncan Kennedy, David Rae and Ross Wilson met when they formed as The Shieks which has them playing reinvented music from various 30s, 40s and 50s bands.

Guitarist and vocalist Duncan and the other band members loved the original songs that lead singer Dave was writing and so The Strange Blue Dreams were formed.

Duncan said: “Dave had a bunch of songs that he’d written himself and we absolutely adored. So we decided to have a different band name for when we did original stuff. The Sheiks have a big following and folk like it for what it is so we thought we’d launch a new project see what happened.

“Our first gig was opening for Glasvegas at the Fruit Market and it went really well. That was the most stupid thing we’d done in a long time and we thought, lets debut this band in front of 2000 people and hopefully they won’t throw things at us. Luckily it went really well.”

The five-piece have recently made their silver-screen debut in the ITV drama, In Plain Sight. A Crime serial about Peter Manuel, Scotland's first serial killer.

“It’s a rather terrifying recounting of the Lanarkshire serial killer from the 1950s,” explains Duncan. “We’ve gotten a name for vintage pop and they wanted a band who could recreate the sounds of a dance hall in Lanarkshire in 1955, specifically for the show.

“So we played some songs for it and from that we got the commissions to write a song for the soundtrack which was a fun experience as well.”

The band are aiming to debut their album by summer 2017 which Duncan describes as being, “like The Mavericks of song writing. We like folk like Patsy Cline, the Everly Brothers, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Roy Orbison and even Henry Mancini who did all the kind of 60s films scores.”

“What we’re trying to do is unify all these influences under this umbrella of high fidelity pop music, which will be everything from doo-wop, rock n’ roll, pop, swing and early 60s British beat music.”

Talking about their sound, Duncan coins it as high fidelity vintage pop, something different from your chart topping pop records. On the term Duncan asked: “It’s not the least bit pretentious is it?

“I guess we kind of feel that we’re something different. Somebody at the BBC describes us as an archetypical cult band. I get where they’re coming from but it’s maybe something we’d like to shrug off a little bit and become slightly better well known.”

The band are performing at King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut next month and Duncan says they are no strangers to the Glasgow scene.

“This year was spent playing festivals, doing In Plain Sight and working on finishing the album,” explains Duncan. “We haven’t been playing in Glasgow at all for a few months so we’re looking at it being a homecoming gig for us.

“We play in Glasgow a hell of a lot between one band or another and the one thing I’ve really come to appreciate over the years is meeting friends and people from different cities over the UK and Europe in Glasgow.

“We are really fortunate to have this really good scene in Glasgow for music. It’s probably the only city in the UK, apart from maybe London that you can make a living as a working musician playing 5 or 6 nights a week. You just don’t get that anywhere else.”

The Strange Blue Dreams are playing at King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow on January 26, 2017.

Danielle Gibson