Francis MacDonald

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Francis Macdonald is a drummer and sometime member of British alternative rock band Teenage Fanclub and used to play with BMX Bandits. He is no relation to keyboard player Finlay MacDonald who also played with both bands.

Francis Macdonald has recorded a solo album called "Sauchiehall & Hope - A Pop Opera" under the pseudonym "Nice Man" and "The Art of Hanging Out" as "Nice Man and the Bad Boys". He runs Shoeshine Records / Spit & Polish in Glasgow and manages lots of other bands, such as Camera Obscura..

Other artists he has worked with include: Kevin Ayers, BMX Bandits, Kim Fowley, Robert Forster, Dan Penn, Alex Chilton, John Herald, Chip Taylor, Ben Vaughn, Laura Cantrell, Kate Rusby, Camera Obscura, Belle & Sebastian, Looper, Future Pilot AKA, The Hermit Crabs, The Pastels, Radio Sweethearts, Michael Shelley, Cheeky Monkey, Frank Blake,Speeder, Astro Chimp, etc, etc...Francis has produced a (currently unreleased) Jerry Lee Lewis album....He provided the music for the British comedy feature film Zemanovaload starring Ed Byrne...His music has also been used in MTV's Real World, Fashion TV, Queer Eye For the Straight Guy, Sky News, The Mark Thomas Comedy Product, Emilio Estevez's 'smash hit' Late Last Night and a mobile phone ad in South Korea... He wants to keep writing songs while working on music for tv/films/adverts...