Music :: Feature 18 Nov 2008
Beth Malone: I haven’t eaten all day. I’m nauseous and could - at any moment - pee myself. I’m waiting to speak with two of Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds at the Malmaison hotel in Glasgow. Mick Harvey and Jim Sclavunos are real rock-stars, legends e...
Music :: Live Review 08 Sep 2008
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 going for it, in theory. The location – and the journey to get there – is absolutely gorgeo...
Music :: Feature 29 Aug 2008
Dave Kerr: Last year the Bad Seeds’ Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos took a sonic detour away from the piano-driven atmospherics that have dominated much of the band’s post-millennial output to deliver a riotous kick in the ball...
Music :: Comedy :: Feature 16 Jul 2008
Dave Kerr: Julian Cope - Uncut Arena (Friday) Who are you most looking forward to seeing at this year's festival? I don't go to festivals to see anyone in particular. For myself, what makes a festival great is not who you saw but who you missed, as it is eviden...
Music :: Preview 08 Jul 2008
Jason Morton: When one stops to think about the UK summer music festival scene – the sheer number of events, the stages and attractions, the amount of talent trekking across the country to entertain the drunk and drugged up crowds – one could easily thin...
Music :: Preview 18 Jun 2008
Nick Mitchell: A funny thing happened last year: people started using the word "boutique" to describe a music festival. Now, according to ye olde dictionary, a "boutique" is "a fashionable, usually small shop, especially one selling clothes". The first Connect Festiv...
Records :: Album Review 12 Mar 2007
Billy Hamilton: If you're squeamish, cover your ears now - Grinderman's debut album takes no prisoners. It's the wailing cry of love bludgeoned by vitriolic distortion; the haggard bones of contentment devoured by avenging bar-room vultures; and the last breath of con...
Music :: Feature 12 Mar 2007
Billy Hamilton: In Nick Cave's drive to musical emancipation, The Bad Seeds provide direction without ever taking hold of the wheel. Imperative to the composition of seminal masterpieces like The Boatman's Call and The Good Son, this unruly collective of musicians are...
