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Dylan Reed: The folks over at Soma have confirmed the exact times for this weekend's mashup. Sense seems to have prevailed, with less intense acts like Beardyman ...
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Gillian Watson: Alex Kapranos, charismatic frontman of local art-rock heroes Franz Ferdinand, is excited. The Glaswegian quartet’s return to the Main Stage at T...
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Johnny Langlands: Following the recent news that Blur have joined a long list of bands to reunite and tour the nostalgia circuit (let's be having you, Color Me Badd), i...
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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, ...
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, my...
Music | Live Review
Finbarr Bermingham, R.J Thomson, Nick Mitchell, Dave Kerr & Ally Brown: 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 onlookin...
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Nick Mitchell, Finbarr Bermingham & Ally Brown: 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 ...
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 oft...
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 Edinburg...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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...
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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 certifi...
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...
