Come On Gang!/Found/Jesus H. Foxx, Edinburgh Caves 10/9/10
Record launch parties can be enormously self-indulgent affairs. The bands are usually revelling in a misguided sense of their own importance, or twitch nervously as they count the trickle of folk...
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Album of the Week: FOUND – factorycraft FOUND’s profile has never been higher. After a few year’s hibernation, where the Edinburgh three-piece concentrated on their Bafta-winning ’talking musical...
View ArticleThe Phantom Band/FOUND, Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire, March 17, 2011
It’s St Patrick’s Day and the smell of cheap booze and bullshit is in the air. Mercifully, sanctuary from the pseudo-Irish tat and faux Paddies on Edinburgh’s Grassmarket can be found deep underground...
View ArticleThe Best Albums of 2011 – 20-16
20. Beirut – The Rip Tide Zach Condon’s music hadn’t overly interested us before, but overwhelmingly positive reviews drove us towards The Rip Tide and it seems the wider world of critics got this one...
View ArticleLast Post on the 2011 Bugle
Iiiiiiit’s Chriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiistmaaaaaaaaaaas! And that can mean only one thing – the BAMS (Blogs and Music Sites Scotland) are back. The unofficial guild/club/clique voted High Violet by the...
View ArticleWho’s up for the Scottish Album of the Year?
The recent announcement that the Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA) was creating a Scottish Album of the Year Award has been met with mostly positive noises from the industry and bl*g*sph*re....
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Album of the Week: Cate le Bon – CYRK There’s something gleefully odd about Welsh songstress Cate Le Bon. We first heard her, of course, on Gruff Rhys’ faintly bonkers Neon Neon project, adding sweet...
View ArticleA Home From Homegame – The Aberfeldy Festival
Fence Records are already well known for putting on a fine festival. The outrageously fun Homegame may be on hiatus, but their Eigg takeover Awaygame sounds like it was a stormer this year and St...
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