Music :: Feature :: New Blood 03 Oct 2008
Ally Brown: Like the eligibility rules for international football that see Nigerians playing for Poland, Englishmen playing for Scotland, and Brazilians playing for just about everyone, the conventions for deciding where a band originates from are haphazard at bes...
Music :: Feature :: New Blood 29 Sep 2008
Emma Smith: With all the majesty and wisdom that their title evokes, Eagleowl create stripped back, modernised folk tunes of a quiet intensity. Their sparse yet warmly atmospheric sound is the culmination of varied instrumentation: double bass, violin, ukulele and...
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Music :: Feature :: New Blood 03 Sep 2008
Finbarr Bermingham: “I worry that sometimes we can lean towards the mainstream too much. We have a big chorus and all of a sudden people start talking about radio play. It's something we want to shy away from and keep it kind of off the radar.” Ridiculous as i...
Music :: Feature :: Preview :: New Blood 28 Aug 2008
Finbarr Bermingham: "Just playing fast and loose with Jesus really," comes the deadpan response from Paul Napier, lead singer of Glaswegian septet Punch and the Apostles. The question, of course, was referring to their unusual band name. "It's up to other people to read i...
Music :: Feature :: New Blood 25 Aug 2008
Billy Hamilton: Since the razzmatazz revival of modern-era Indie™, the guitar-clutching tune smuggler has become a nightmare to interview. Armed with pursed-lips aplenty and the obligatory quota of well-oiled retorts, a chat with today’s leather jacket ado...
Music :: Feature :: New Blood 25 Jul 2008
Billy Hamilton: Despite a loving embrace from globe-conquering hip-hoppers, the pseudonym is often much derided in today’s bourgeois indie circles. Keeping it real’s all part of the deal and, unless you’re after a one-way ticket to attention-starved ...
Music :: Feature :: New Blood 24 Jul 2008
Jason Morton: 2008 has been a big year so far for Attic Lights, and it's about to get bigger. Three singles - Never Get Sick of the Sea, God and their most recent, Bring You Down, which features remixes by Mogwai and Camera Obscura - have slowly built up anticipatio...
Music :: Feature :: New Blood 27 Jun 2008
Billy Hamilton: It’s been a tumultuous couple of years for lug-puncturing melody merchants Dananananaykroyd. Throughout the last 24 months, the Glaswegian sextet have been unanimously advocated by the slaver-strewn quills of the UK music press, undergone a strin...
Music :: Feature :: New Blood 03 Jun 2008
Nick Mitchell: Are you familiar with the 'rent-a-quote'? You know, when a lazy, narcissistic tabloid hack plonks meaningless hyperbole into his (or her) half-baked review, in the hope of being name-checked on the side of a few buses? Well we're not normally in the bu...
Music :: Feature :: New Blood 22 May 2008
Ally Brown: Writer’s block is a malaise that all lyricists, authors and journalists suffer periodically, with no known cause, no reliable prognosis, and no certain cure. “Write about what you know”, the clear-of-thought advise, but often that jus...
Music :: Feature :: New Blood 15 May 2008
Ali Maloney: With their second full length release - The Moveable Feast - about to be released, Auld Reekie’s rampant mavericks Orkestra del Sol are in top spirits, which bodes very well for audiences from here to China. And more specifically, the audience fo...
Music :: Feature :: New Blood 25 Apr 2008
Nick Mitchell: Errors are a band who have buzzed, fly-like, around the electrically charged bars of the Scottish music scene for a few years without igniting in a satisfying pop. But that could all be about to change with the release of their debut album this month, ...
Music :: Feature :: New Blood 01 Apr 2008
Ally Brown: They catch 'em young at the Super Adventure Club. In South Park, that's the name of the international paedophile ring that brainwashes Chef and ultimately causes his death. The Skinny caught an Edinburgh-based Super Adventure Club young too. After havi...
Billy Hamilton: In the overtly verbose world of modern-day music journalism there's an adjective that rears its grubby heid time and time again. It's a word that - according to The Oxford English Dictionary's trusty conglomeration of morphemes - has little to do with ...
Music :: Feature :: New Blood 06 Mar 2008
Jamie Borthwick: I look amazing in my jockstrap. It just feels so good, I didn't take it off until about three hours after the gig had finished, enthuses Take a Worm for a Walk Week's guitarist Johnny Docherty. Drummer Jonny Scott looks slightly more reticent. "I was a...
Music :: Feature :: New Blood 05 Feb 2008
Nick Mitchell: Music journalism can be a strange, haphazard, frustrating affair, governed by tight deadlines and hectic schedules - what scientists might term 'chaos theory'. So when The Skinny, a Scottish magazine, wants to speak to Damn Shames, an Edinburgh band, a...
Music :: Feature :: New Blood 06 Jan 2008
Graeme Blaikie: The story of Glaswegian quartet Q without U is one that has been unfolding gradually since the band's formation in 2003, but these are undoubtedly exciting times for the band. Recent single One Piece Puzzle is an exuberant nugget of new wave indie that...
Finbarr Bermingham: Entering 2008, Make Model find themselves in an enviable position. At the tender age of six months, they were snapped up by a major record label. Before putting the finishing touches to their debut album (being mixed by Rich Costey - Franz Ferdinand, F...
Music :: Feature :: New Blood 07 Dec 2007
Heather Crumley: Self-belief is essential for any band wanting to get anywhere. If someone says you're shit, you need to have the balls to carry on. When making a name for yourself, when no one knows who you are, when no one will even listen, confidence in what you do ...
