Music :: Heads Up :: Preview 17 Nov 2008
Euan Ferguson: Winters in Scotland are tough. We all sometimes need something to help us through these miserable, wet months. So imagine this: waking up in rolling, unspoilt countryside on a sun-kissed day, a calm breeze blowing as gentle sounds from a distant stage ...
Student Life :: Music :: Feature 12 Sep 2008
Euan Ferguson: As the weather grows warmer, gig-goers grow tired of dark, sweaty venues and begin to look further afield for their music fix. Forget camper vans, mystery-meat burgers and queuing for blocked up toilets, festivals these days are a more sophisticated a...
Music :: Live Review 21 Jul 2008
Ally Brown, Nick Mitchell, Dave Kerr, R.J Thomson, Finbarr Bermingham: After breaking the undercarriage of the Skinnymobile on its rocky exit from T in the Car Park last year, much to the peculiar amusement of an onlooking policeman, it's with caution that we roll up to Balado this year with a plan for all eventualities. ...
Music :: Feature :: Preview 10 Jul 2008
Ally Brown, Finbarr Bermingham, Nick Mitchell: From Will Young to Holy F**k, the line-up for this year's annual shindig in Balado certainly can't be accused of one-dimensionality. Here's five acts from a range of 140 that you'd be a dafty to miss this weekend: Rage Against the Machine Back in the ...
Music :: Feature 10 Jul 2008
Nick Mitchell: Magazine interviews with Hot Chip often begin with the writer grappling with the futile task of defining this most indefinable of bands. They will often indulge in a stream of made-up micro-genres: 'lo-fi disco', 'future-pop', 'Fisher Price funk', even...
Music :: Feature 09 Jul 2008
Ally Brown: I'm not sure why Vampire Weekend's keys man is looking at me with a ruffled brow as we're introduced. Could it be because we crossed paths in Edinburgh's Bongo Club six months before, and he's struggling to place me 5000 miles away? Maybe he's just squ...
Music :: Live Review 09 Jul 2008
Paul Mitchell: It may actually be the case that news of an impending Primal Scream release is not greeted with the palpitations of old, such was their resonance and impact on a scene that was in dire need of (anything but Britpop) innovation throughout the nineties. ...
Music :: Feature 08 Jul 2008
Dave Kerr: “I’d like to see the Pogues…never seen them!” Speaking from a tour bus en route to Minehead for All Tomorrow’s Parties – guitar virtuoso, keyboardist and all round sound manipulation guru Ian Williams can think of n...
Music :: Feature 07 Jul 2008
RJ Thomson: “Right, this is Scotland, so let's fuckin' have it." This was the unforgettable opening line of what was quite possibly the best gig I've ever been to: Primal Scream at the Corn Exchange in Edinburgh, touring their incendiary classic XTRMNTR. T...
Clubs :: Preview 07 Jul 2008
Emma Kilday: Things are a-changing in festival land. In times gone by, the 'dance tent' was somewhere the masses wandered into after all the bands were finished or took brief refuge in between watching their favourite guitar-wielding crooners on the main stage. Not...
Heads Up :: Feature :: News 26 Jun 2008
Finbarr Bermingham: Okay, so they may not be breathing down the neck of the late James Brown just yet, but by comparison to some of their peers, Kings of Leon are certified workhorses. Just six months after completing an expansive arena tour on these shores (not to ment...
Music :: Feature 24 Jun 2008
Paul Mitchell: Through a veneer of well-practised diplomacy, bassist Mike Mills obliquely concedes that R.E.M.’s last studio album, 2004’s Around The Sun, might just have deserved the critical apathy and unremarkable sales figures it received. “We t...
Heads Up :: News 13 Jun 2008
Dave Kerr: Hot on the heels of the news that there's still an opportunity to do Glasto this Summer, it seems that frustrated Scottish festival fans who can't be bothered travelling south of the border for their fix might still rejoice. One last batch of T in the ...
Music :: Live Review 09 Aug 2007
Finbarr Bermingham: T In The Park 2007 had the potential to be a total disaster. The rain had fallen throughout the preceding week and come Friday evening Balado was a washout. Car parks were filled prematurely and any other vehicle-owning punters were being turned away a...
