The Cortinas has been played on NTS shows including Yesterday's News, with Tribe Of The City first played on 4 October 2015.

There are at least two bands named The Cortinas.

The Cortinas were a short-lived proto-psychedelic beat band from the United Kingdom, based around brothers Paul and Nigel Griggs (vocals/guitar and bass, respectively. They band formed in 1963, were initially Beatles-inspired and played live a lot.

In October 1966 they attracted the intrerest of Mike Swain, who ran demo studio Hermitage Sound in Hitchin. The Cortinas recorded two songs there ('In The Park' and the Nigel Griggs-penned 'Sagittarius'), but the recordings were not released….