Records | Album Review
Gillian Watson: US singer-songwriter Thao Nguyen's second album in collaboration with The Get Down Stay Down is a singular creature: a break-up record which somehow e...
Music | Live Review
Billy Hamilton: An expert in both violin and verbosity, Andrew Bird is cut from a peculiar musical cloth. His idiosyncratic stylings make him the perfect accompanimen...
Music | Preview
Gillian Watson: The organisers of Edinburgh's Edge festival have started well by securing several big-name revival acts: ex-Talking Head David Byrne, post-punkers Mag...
News | Music | Preview
T on the Fringe may be a distant memory, but the second year of The Edge Festival promises a veritable smörgåsbord of local and internation...
Music | Feature
Nick Mitchell: Thursday 28 May - Day One The setting is perfect for Magik Markers’ early evening set at the ATP stage, with the stepped seating providing a s...
Records | Single Review
Nick Mitchell: Chicagoan prodigy Andrew Bird is still riding the wave of acclaim that followed the release of Noble Beast earlier this year, to the extent that he no...
Nick Mitchell: Have you ever returned from a weekend of average live music and draconian licencing laws in an overpopulated, litter-strewn field and asked yourself, ...
Lauren Mayberry: Slightly weird Illinois multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird packs up his guitar, mandolin, glockenspiel and whatever other instruments he can fit into h...
Gillian Watson: Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird follows 2007's critical success Armchair Apocrypha with an intricate beauty of an LP that's by turns introspective a...
Comedy | Review
Ciaran Healy: An audience member enters late. We prepare ourselves for the inevitable Fringe diatribe but it never comes. The latecomer is welcomed warmly by Andr...
Finbarr Bermingham: Given the challenge of warming up for the irrepressible Andrew Bird are Baltimore post-rockers Human Bell (***). Appearances are deceiving as these He...
Sean Michaels: 1. The Shaky Hands - The SleeplessPortland's Shaky Hands take the yelp-rock that's decidedly au-courant, and to it add romanticism, warmth, ladylike s...
