It’s official Clyde 1 Unsigned have finally found the happiest band on the planet! Forget the typical stony faced, aloof chill normally associated with a band, these guys and featured gal Manda Rin are joy & warmth personified. Their onstage presence is mighty good they are luminous, unpredictable and energetic. With an unnatural obsession with anything that glows in the dark and the odd megaphone thrown in for good measure, this band are making sure that everyone in the venue are having a good time. Stick with them long enough and you might even become a member, their door is always open. With samples from Sesame St to Mortal Kombat they certainly aren’t predictable and the mishmash of sounds are going to make even the most cynical listener turn round and face the music. In roman mythology, Juno is the queen of all the gods; yup this band should be right up there looking down on all they survey. Let it wash over you, and lose you’re heart to Juno.

It is clear from the word go that this collaboration is successful and not one to be sceptical of. Juno! Vs. Manda Rin have created a single, oozing cheek and coolness. 'These Boys Are Athletes' has an almost cheerleader-type charm to it without being too tacky. If Shifty Disco Records’ name had to be summed up by the sound of one song, this is that song. With thumping drum and bass combining with such ease with the simplistic melodies and audacious vocals, it is clear that this single must not be the only release from this collaboration. 'Smoke and Mirrors' is just as good, if not better. It is catchier than 'These Boys Are Athletes' and rightfully makes this release a Double A –Side. It shows a great range of influences from many different sub-genres of electronica and rock and they each combine well to create this fantastic song. Buzzing electronica and catchy choruses is potentially a great recipe for a successful new collaboration and Juno! Vs. Manda Rin have cooked up a storm. If this is a sign of what is to come in 2008, it’s going to be one amazing year. Guy Purssell

'These Boys are Athletes' featuring Manda Rin on the surface gives a sweetly Barbie girl vocal but punches back hard with the regional lilt. Don’t believe all that you hear, you ain’t going to see this lass wearing pink and crying for her hair straighteners which is as it should be. The band sound like New Order, crossed with The Scream and the Happy Mondays, lighten it up a notch and there you have it, electro pop in its purest form, alive and kicking official! They have the potential to be the soundtrack to the next club generation, bring it on!

Poptastic electro pop from Juno! and Bis singer Manda Rin.

Glasgow/Fife/Tokyo electro pop elves Juno! play Capitol this Friday. A Candy striped , raved up take on The Pills n Thrills era Happy Mondays , expect to hear more of their debut album when they support the reformed Bis at King Tuts in April!!

A band that we'd describe as Happy Mondays Gone Electro. Their records always sound terrific

JUNO!- Glasgow via Fife and Tokyo based electro/rave pop 6 piece. A smattering of baggy and post rock too.....Laconic cool pop with more hooks than the a fishing tackle shop being run by Peter Hook and the bloke out of Dr Hook...New Order/ Go Team / Happy Mondays / Orange Juice / Can / Stone Roses...has an irreverent cheeky feel and some real pop plausibility. They must be contenders!

Evil Heat-period Primal Scream: meaty bassline, robo-beats and percussion, and buzzing electronica.

Got me grooving on a rainy Tuesday morning!

While many young bands try to emulate Oasis, Juno! have seen the brilliance of Primal Scream and followed their lead. And what a result. This group should be out there with Kasabian, knocking hell out of the charts and R&B nonsense that's clogging up the Top 10. It's not just the louche, half-whispered vocals that owe a lot to Bobby Gillespie. Production is near to perfect. Using drums, guitars and bass, they add some toe-tapping synthesizer bleeps, squeaks and grooves. Their Atom Bomb City has a floor-filling groove but also sounds perfect for driving down dark country lanes. Cut It Loose, with its sirens and beats, is a quirky, slower-paced tune with some nifty keyboard work. The start of Wonderful sounds like more of a club tune, with a sparse teutonic groove, rumbling bass and Human League-style synthesizer melody. But it all settles down into a blissed-out, come-down track with trumpets. Juno! are one of the best new unsigned bands I've heard.

Well endowed musically, Juno are an OMD-esque electronic band. With melodic orchestral strings dining with analogue synths, Juno’s noir pop is a musical feast. It may be early days but with music this astute, you can’t help but feel ‘Enola Gay’ is in there somewhere.

Itm? Live nights are all about bringing new music to the town, so local acts are more of a rarity on Monty’s stage the first Friday of every month. However, Juno, spotted and booked by our local promoter, are an exception. What will the Dunfermline sound turn out to be? Happily, it’s a sound to please the local punters, who like rock music with a dance edge. Juno take a twist on this genre, popularized and rather overdone in Manchester. But with the simple addition of trumpet, their dance beats are embellished with a decidedly pleasing sound. There’s enough beats here to satisfy.

Enigmatic Fife five piece Juno! have been causing quite a stir on the Scottish scene since a national newspaper review at the turn of the year saw them being compared favourably to Primal Scream and current media darlings Kasabian.These comparisons don’t necessarily sit easily with the boys themselves however, who would prefer to be viewed in their own light: “We try to create our own thing and feel that we’ve definitely found our own sound." says Jason, bass player from the band. "Sure we’ve got influences, that’s inevitable, but we’re a sum of our parts - with a bit extra on top”. Certainly their use of live drums and bass, combined with drum machines, guitars, keyboards and percussion does come together to create a mighty cacophony, but one that’s held together by the blinding rhythmic grooves that underpin it all.

There's something about Atom Bomb City that’s pure holiday. Laid-back and warm, a mixture of Baggy vocals, uber-twee and electro-pop. If Juno get signed they will for sure be big in Japan. This tune is so bubble-gummy that when I shut my eyes and dance to it I feel like a cartoon. I wonder if everyone gets that? Juno sound like they were put together specifically to support My Latest Novel: There’s lots of quirky percussion, nice bells and warm brass. The lyrics are as shoegazer friendly as this...“I've wanted to see you since I read all your band's reviews,” Awww. (It's really "..all your bad reviews") This band are hard to pin actually. Juno are DIY in many ways, like their blatant love of 80’s casio-beats, computer-game-synth noises, and, face it, flat vocals. But this is a well put together single. Where’s the DIY thing of being all over the place and shoddily recorded? This single sounds more studio than bedroom, and the band members can actually play. What’s that about? Could they be the D.I.Y. band that loved what they were doing so much they got good at it by accident? Let’s all pretend that, ‘cause it’s a cute story, and Juno are a cute band.