Film | Feature
Becky Bartlett: Legendary film critic Mark Kermode is at the Cameo on 8 February and the GFT on the 9 February, discussing the experiences he's had during his lucrati...
Music | Feature
Adam Stafford: The world is set up wrong. We know this now. While Glasvegas gallivant around the globe, filling stadiums with their sing-along dogshite nonsense, ano...
Records | Album Review
Finbarr Bermingham: Compared to 2008, when all-pervading Falkirk outfit Y’All Is Fantasy Island unleashed a trio of albums upon the unsuspecting Scottish indie frat...
Adam Stafford: Randalf Spyra* and I had had our nights, granted, but he was getting progressively worse: what started out as a bit of innocent snorting of purple dia...
Music | Preview | New Blood
Milo McLaughlin: This month in Edinburgh local DIY promoters Tracer Trails, The Gentle Invasion and Trampoline (as well as local independent music retailers Avalanche ...
Lifestyle | Music | Heads Up | Feature
Johnny Langlands: Kilsyth's Twilight Sad are set to perform their first Scottish headline gig of the year when they play The Skinny Dip at Edinburgh's Bongo Club next T...
News | Lifestyle | Heads Up
The Shutdown is a new short film written and narrated by Scottish author Alan Bissett, known for his novels and plays that have recently been successf...
Adam Stafford: I made a film in 2003 with Tommy Blair, one that never got finished. He did the sound, naturally because he had the equipment and was known to be good...
News | Lifestyle | Music | Heads Up
Katy Hutcheson: April looks set to be a tuneful month for Glasgow, with the increasing quality and assortment of U.K artists performing at the forthcoming Hinterland ...
Music | Preview
Ted Maul: Remember when The Darkness first emerged, and everyone went apeshit — you know, before the mother of all backlashes blew them off the face of th...
John Wylie: Y'All Is Fantasy Island are a rock band, and Infanticidal Genuflector is a collection of experimental ambient soundscapes up to 20 minutes in length, ...
Dave Kerr: “Here it is!” says Adam Stafford on the wee postcard that arrived inside this DIY promo package, “two and a bit years in the making ...
Records | Review
Nick Mitchell: Like their contemporaries Frightened Rabbit, Y'All Is Fantasy Island are a band who seem to take the conveyor belt approach to music production: write...
Music | Review
Ally Brown: Just three days after the release of gentle second album Rescue Weekend, Y'all Is Fantasy Island (***) are ignoring all its songs in favour of rocking...
Music | Feature | New Blood
Ally Brown: Writer’s block is a malaise that all lyricists, authors and journalists suffer periodically, with no known cause, no reliable prognosis, and no ...
