Caird Hall, Dundee, December 15

It’s been a hectic few months for Scotland’s favourite identical twins – but rest is coming.

Fife brothers Craig and Charlie Reid have been on the road with their band virtually all the time since late July, promoting their 11th album Angry Cyclist. They squeezed in three Scottish dates at the start of August as part of a UK-wide jaunt before spending September in Canada, then resuming their British commitments in October.

The country rockers notched eight more Scottish sell-outs last month.

After full houses in Belfast and Dublin at the weekend, they played Motherwell last night, and conclude their epic itinerary in front of capacity crowds in Stirling tonight and Dundee tomorrow.

Auchtermuchty’s finest took time out this week to talk through a few of their all-time favourite recordings for the Tracks Of My Years feature on fellow Scot Ken Bruce’s Radio Two morning show, with the 56-year-olds’ final revealing insight into their influences being broadcast today.

Picks so far have included Cliff Bennett’s blistering 1966 Beatles cover Got To Get You Into My Life, classic Four Seasons single Sherry, and Little Richard’s Keep A-Knockin’ (1957).

According to Craig, the I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) hit-makers’ vintage musical inclinations reflect a preference for pre-Pro Tools and laptop recording techniques.

“Sometimes it’s lyrical, sometimes it’s vocal and sometimes it’s a combination of everything and just the sound of a band in the studio,” he says.

“I don’t think you can beat a band that knows what it’s doing in the studio playing live.

“Most of my favourite records were done that way. You can’t reproduce it just layering things on top of each other. You can get a great record, but there’s something about the human interaction.

“Any kind of music is better when people are in the same room.”

Charlie reckons the pair’s shared upbringing and interests made it inevitable that they’d write together.

“We always wanted to play in a band and it would be natural it would be in the same band,” he adds.

“If you’re going through the same experiences, it makes it easier.

“There are so many things you’d maybe have to have a conversation with someone else about, but when it’s your brother, you don’t really have to do that.”

Looking ahead to 2019, the Hibssupporting political songsmiths have lined up a return to Edinburgh Castle as part of a Scottish tour next summer.

It’ll be the first time they’ve played the venue since 2008, with other major shows taking place at Melrose, Bught Park in Inverness and Glasgow’s SSE Hydro.