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Rob St. John

Ten Tracks Featured Artist: Rob St John

Music :: Feature 01 Dec 2008

Billy Hamilton: Having trailed around Edinburgh’s venues unescorted for four years, Burnley-born troubadour Rob St John recently unshackled himself from the baggage of the ‘singer/songwriter’ tag and acquired a brethren of likeminded souls who walk u...

FAT CAT

FatCat: The Purr-Fect Label

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...

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Student Life: The Twilight Sad's 5 Point Plan

Student Life :: Music :: Feature 15 Sep 2008

James Graham: So I've noticed recently that being in a band is a bit like being a student. You drink a lot, you’re always fuckin’ skint and you spend most of your time watching films and shitty Australian soap operas when you should really be doing somet...

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The Twilight Sad / Frightened Rabbit @ The Liquid Room, 14 Aug

Music :: Live Review 18 Aug 2008

Darren Carle: The Liquid Room suits Frightened Rabbit well tonight, though their burgeoning popularity ensures that a good viewing spot quickly becomes a closely guarded commodity. But even after a thorough work-through of a surprisingly strong set for a band just t...

Tartan Heart Festival

Tartan Heart Festival @ Belladrum, Invernesshire, 8-9 Aug

Music :: Heads Up :: Preview 06 Aug 2008

Jaco Justice: Despite recent heavy headline casualties (including The Long Blondes and The Holloways) Belladrum has proven its thus far short-lived but prolific festival pedigree to pull together a most worthy craic-filled summer gathering. Where else could your roc...

Latitude 2008

Latitude 2008 @ Henham Park, Suffolk, 18-20 Jul

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...

Ratatat

The Edge Festival @ Various Edinburgh Venues, 1-31 Aug

Music :: Preview 24 Jul 2008

Billy Hamilton: With T On The Fringe a distant memory, Edinburgh has a new musical mainstay on its festival calendar. Picking up where T left off, The Edge Festival will be supplying the city’s culture-soaked droves with a smorgasbord of tune-churning local and ...

Orzelda - The Wee Shop Is Filled With Delights

Orzelda - The Wee Shop Is Filled With Delights

Records :: Album Review 23 Jul 2008

Nick Mitchell: The Wee Shop Is Filled With Delights is a mini-album that is indeed filled with delights - if your idea of 'delightful' is synonymous with 'eerie', 'weird', 'fucked-up' or 'skewed'. It's apt that Twilight Sad bassist Craig Orzel has extended his surnam...

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The Twilight Sad - Here, It Never Snowed. Afterwards It Did

Records :: Review :: Album Review 09 Jun 2008

Finbarr Bermingham: Here, It Never Snowed. Afterwards It Did perhaps shouldn’t be taken as indicative of where The Twilight Sad will go next, more a reflection of where they've come from. With the buzz of Fourteen Autumns... still ringing in our ears one year later ...

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The Dirty Dozen - June, 2008

Records :: Feature :: Round Up 02 Jun 2008

Nick Mitchell: In a special edition of The Dirty Dozen, we let The Skinny's band of 2007, The Twilight Sad, sound off on this month's singles. We knew this could have gotten ugly, and it did...James Graham (Vocals) Andy MacFarlane (Guitar) Craig Orzel (Bass) THE R...

Biggles

Shits and Biggles: I Fly Spitfires Announce Summertime Line-ups

Heads Up :: News 29 May 2008

Billy Hamilton: If The Skinny could fly spitfires it would dress something like this. Alas, our collective of scribes and snappers are sadly lacking in aeronautical expertise but the lucky folks of Auld Reekie can soon appease their disappointment with the next best ...

Live

The Twilight Sad / Frightened Rabbit @ Carnegie Hall, 15 May

Music :: Review :: Live Review 22 May 2008

Nick Mitchell: Dunfermline's Carnegie Hall isn't your usual gig venue. It's a provincial theatre with cushioned seating, suited ushers, pinned-up notices of stage times and a drinks ban in the auditorium. It's a comfortable yet contrary setting, and local trio Dirty ...

Dirty Summer (2008)

Tigerfest 2008, Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline, 14-18 May

Music :: Preview 22 Apr 2008

Nick Mitchell: Like public libraries and cinemas, a live music scene can enhance any town. But too often the only places to regularly hear original live music in Scotland are the culturally overfed conurbations. The starved provincials usually have to make do with ag...

The Twilight Sad @ Cabaret Voltaire

Music :: Live Review 06 Jan 2008

Darren Carle: It's been a good year for Scottish music and tonight's bill at Cabaret Voltaire offers up three reasons why. First up are Chutes who manage to pull in an early-doors crowd that would eclipse many a headlining act. It's justifiable too as they deliver a...

2007 - A Year in Music (Part 2)

Music :: Feature 07 Dec 2007

Sounds: 5. Queens of the Stone Age – Era Vulgaris (Polydor)It's never easy on the ego when the fruits of your labour take a kicking. That probably counts for double when your band happens to be Queens of the Stone Age, a group that delivered three of the...

The Twilight Sad @ Cabaret Voltaire

Music :: Live Review 08 Oct 2007

Finbarr Bermingham: From what these lugs have heard, support band Frightened Rabbit can do better than this. Some bizarre vocal 'harmonies' from their drummer almost jeopardizes their performance which gathers momentum as it goes. After much huffing and puffing, they fini...

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The Twilight Sad @ Bannermans, 19 Aug

Music :: Live Review 08 Sep 2007

John Wylie: Bannermans is small enough to be packed to the rafters in anticipation of the first ever Edinburgh gig by the Twilight Sad. Before then we're treated to some thrilling support from Popup, and a hilarious Arab Strap-esque performance from Dumb Instrumen...

Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters <br/>

The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters

Records :: Album Review 10 Jun 2007

Ally Brown: This is what Mogwai have unleashed upon us, and we must be proud. Glasgow's post-rock pioneering has stretched at least as far as Kilsyth, where The Twilight Sad have taken the intoxicating nature of the quintet's whispering/screaming guitar recipe and...

The Easy Gramophone

Music :: Feature 11 May 2007

Sean Michaels: 1. Parts and Labor - Fractured SkiesParts and Labor have made a track that's strangely seminal, strangely stand-alone, not quite like anything else in the indie-rock landscape. There's some of Arcade Fire or Wolf Parade, yearning and brash, but the mix...