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Finbarr Bermingham: As if your liver won’t come under enough strain, having spent Christmas Week pickled in mulled wine and Bier D’Or, the organisers of Edinb...
Music | Live Review
Ally Brown: Strangely, but thankfully, the Wickerman Festival near Dumfries is a Friday-Saturday weekender, not a Saturday-Sunday affair. That's fortunate because...
Music | Feature | Live Review
Ally Brown, Darren Carle & Chris Buckle: Savvy that their back catalogue might as well exist only in ‘best of’ form these days, Squeeze are quick off the mark with the hits. As th...
Gillian Watson, Ally Brown, Chris Buckle, Darren Carle & Johnny Langlands: THE PHANTOM BAND (T Break Stage, Friday) What’s in a name? Plenty, if The Phantom Band are anything to go by. The hauntingly original Glasweg...
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Michael Hunt: One of the more distinctive – and fast becoming one of the most well-regarded – festivals on the Scottish circuit, Wickerman returns for a...
Records | Album Review
Billy Hamilton: We Were Promised Jetpacks couldn’t have timed it better. In the post-breakthrough hiatus of Frightened Rabbit and The Twilight Sad, indie aficio...
Music | Feature | Live Review | New Blood
Alexis Somerville & Finbarr Bermingham: The Great Escape: billed by organisers as “Europe’s leading festival for new music”. 300 bands, 34 venues, 3 days (well, it’s ...
Records | Feature | Round Up
Nick Mitchell: Lily Allen’s continuing success is a mystery to this writer. Granted, when she first emerged with her headstrong girl-about-town shtick, she see...
Jason Morton: Armed with a fresh slab of wax in the form of 2008’s Moonwink – a rollercoaster ride exhibiting twee shades of psychedelic pop – Del...
Gordon Bruce: Everyone knows Glasgow is a musical hubbub, an inked-in city for any band that wants a career. But there’s always that pesky business of buying ...
Billy Hamilton: Last year our scribes foretold glories for the likes of Frightened Rabbit, Yeasayer, MGMT and the now omnipresent Noah & The Whale and, by Jaga's ...
Chris Buckle: From Orange Juice to Belle and Sebastian, Glasgow’s pop pedigree is widely celebrated, but the city won't go resting on its laurels. Leeds label...
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Dave Kerr: Following the recent announcement of warm up gigs to be headlined by LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy in mid-September, further details of The Tennent's...
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 g...
Music | Feature | New Blood
Billy Hamilton: Since the razzmatazz revival of modern-era Indie™, the guitar-clutching tune smuggler has become a nightmare to interview. Armed with pursed-lip...
