Music | Feature
Ally Brown: Initially hampered by constant comparisons to Belle & Sebastian, Camera Obscura have picked up that baton and accelerated away. Established now as...
Lauren Mayberry: After departing indie-pop octet The Concretes in 2006 to pursue a solo career under nom de plume Taken by Trees, Victoria Bergsman’s desire to go ou...
Music | Feature | Live Review
Chris Buckle, Thomas Meek, Ally Brown & Darren Carle: T in the Park 2009 was largely pre-billed as "the year T went pop", as if it was totally something else before. Bands that write their own songs and p...
Music | Live Review
Chris Buckle: Whereas past po-faced performances have given Camera Obscura’s Traceyanne a slight dour air, the thrill of headlining their hometown’s mos...
Records | Album Review
Darren Carle: Local stalwarts Camera Obscura’s latest album title will likely elicit obvious jokes from detractors, especially with an opening line like &ldqu...
Milo McLaughlin: Pretty girls and cute animals really are the nicest things in the world – FACT. And when you combine them both, plus an utterly mad bloke, you g...
Gavin Dunbar: We've been locked away for the past year or so. It's not as bad as it sounds, 'cause we've been keeping busy. First we were locked away in Glasgow get...
Ally Brown, Nick Mitchell & Colin Chapman: The Connect Festival – this year renamed Hydro Connect thanks to a sponsorship hook-up with Scottish Hydro Electric – has got everything g...
Milo McLaughlin: After the torrential rain at 2007's HYGOMP, it took optimism from both organisers and audience to ignore the weather forecast and brave the Mono court...
Music | Preview
Milo McLaughlin: Curated by the owners of the Mono café-bar in Glasgow's Merchant City, and held in the adjoining courtyard, this annual all-dayer has become a ...
RJ Thomson: A bad gig review does not mean the band in question is and always will be bad. In fact, the previously Skinny-featured Camera Obscura already write de...
Heather Crumley: There's a tartan rug draped over an amp, the band come onstage to the sounds of Donald Where's Yer Troosers and open with an anecdote about Hamish Mac...
Jasper Hamill: The difficulty in writing about a Camera Obscura effort is that it all sounds the same. The eighties didn't happen, ecstasy hasn't been invented and t...
Sean Michaels: I wanted us to change, says Camera Obscura's Tracyanne Campbell. The band is mere weeks away from the release of their third album, 'Let's Get Out Of ...
