Music :: Live Review 13 Nov 2008
Jorge Marticorena: You may have loved the 27 or so times you’ve seen Back to the Future, but you simply can’t deny the grandeur of the one and only time you saw 2001: A Space Odyssey. When it comes to live performances, it’s easy to overlook sheer immen...
Music :: Feature :: Label 07 Oct 2008
Billy Hamilton: If variety is the spice of life then FatCat Records are piquant enough to have even the most resistant tastebuds burning. Established almost 20 years ago by Dave Cawley and Alex Knight, the label has developed into one of the UKs finest purveyors of m...
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...
Records :: Feature :: Round Up 01 Sep 2008
Nick Mitchell: The Dirty Dozen does like a band to seduce it a bit. So when newly-formed Londoners Rock City Sixteen send in a 7" of Lunettes Noires Pour Nuits Blanche (****, 8 Sep) in appropriate black and white design with creative press release, I am easily swayed...
Music :: Travel :: Preview 14 Aug 2008
Ally Brown: 1. The Location - It's in the grounds of a castle on the banks of Loch Fyne. If you can't appreciate that you must be a blind man who lives in a castle. You're not though, are you? 2. The People - There's no easy way of putting this: everyone at Hydro...
Music :: Comedy :: Live Review 29 Jul 2008
Jason Morton: The road to Suffolk is a long one coming from Scotland, but that's not to say Latitude Festival, now celebrating its third year, doesn't merit the miles. Billed as 'more than just music', the festival delivered on its promise: Festival goers were treat...
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...
