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The Dirty Dozen – February 2012
Remember Remember speak their minds on the February singles
On the Bog: The GZA
Wu-Tang's Gary 'GZA' Grice tells us how he spends his downtime and stays tight-lipped on Liquid Swords II
Umberto: Night Stalking
We don't know what film Umberto will score at GMFF, but odds on it'll be some freaky shit. Errors...
GFF 2012: Sound and Vision
We preview another quality lineup from the Glasgow Music and Film Festival
Errors: "If certain people hadn’t been at early shows, who knows what would have happened"
Before Errors storm the land with their cosmic third LP, we sit down with the Glasgow trio to talk...
Mark Lanegan: "My natural inclination is to make as loud a noise as possible"
Returning this month with his first 'solo' album since 2004, Mark Lanegan assembles his band for a Blues Funeral...
Live Reviews
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The Dirty Dozen
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- 4Feb
Wee Dub Festival: Session #2 (Dub Mafia, Captain Slackship's Mezzanine Allstars, DJ Astroboy)
Bongo Club, Edinburgh19:00 – 22:00; £7 (£10)Multi-venue dub, reggae and roots celebration, offering up the Scottish debut for Bristol D'n'B heavyweights Dub Mafia.
- 4Feb
Black Keys
Corn Exchange, Edinburgh19:00 – 22:00; £21Akron-formed duo made up of Dan Auerback and Patrick Carney, doing funky things to the blues-rock genre.
- 4Feb
Wee Dub Festival: Session #3
The Caves, Edinburgh23:00 – 03:00; £10 adv. (£13 door)Multi-venue dub, reggae and roots celebration, with dub-meets-reggae pioneers Zion Train doing their inimitable live thing.
- 5Feb
Wee Dub Festival: Session #4 (Esperanza, Lucky 7 DJs)
The Third Door, Edinburgh19:00 – 22:00; £5 adv. (£8 door)Multi-venue dub, reggae and roots celebration, headered by the mighty eight-piece explosion that is ska tinkerers Esperanza.
- 5Feb
Wee Dub Festival: Session #5 (Mad Professor, Mungo's HiFi, Chungo Bungo)
Bongo Club, Edinburgh21:00 – 02:00; £15 adv. (£18 door)Multi-venue dub, reggae and roots celebration, headered by legendary dub scientist Mad Professor.
- 6Feb
Next Big Thing: Field Music, Laki Mera, Bwani Junction
HMV Picture House, Edinburgh19:00 – 22:00; £10UK-wide live music festival championing the best new music around, with Edinburgh's own Afro-experimentalists Bwani Junction getting a look in.
- 7Feb
Mastodon (The Dillinger Escape Plan, Red Fang)
Barrowland, Glasgow19:00 – 23:00; £17.50Classic and southern-styled rock influences abound as the mighty Atlanta heavy-metallers tour on the back of their latest album, The Hunter.
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