Previews
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Previews
goNorth 2009 @ Inverness (Various), 11-12 Jun
And so it seems the festival season has crept back upon us, sidling up with all the stealth and dexterity of a hungry cat, almost eerily unnoticed. First the... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
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Acoustic Ladyland @ The Voodoo Rooms, 24 Jun
Acoustic Ladyland are the antithesis of the anodyne listening experience provided by the common-or-garden ‘mellow sax trio’. Instead, London&rsqu... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
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Unicorn Kid @ Cabaret Voltaire, 23 Jun
Not many 17-year-olds from Edinburgh can say they’ve collaborated with the Pet Shop Boys...or played a live session on BBC Radio 1...or featured in NME... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
Festivals
A Prelude to Primavera 2009
It feels like a revolution. Thousands of flag-bearing revellers roam the night streets. Fireworks blast, bins are overturned, scooters knocked on their sides... Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
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Live Music Highlights - June, 2009
You'd have to take a lethal dose of sleeping pills to block out the noise that The Drones are making at the moment Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
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The Metal Section - June, 2009
As seasons go, summer really isn't the most conducive to sullen misery and angry, clenched-fist misanthropy. It must be hard to stay mad at one's parents whi... Read more »| 28 May 2009
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Aqualung @ Reid Concert Hall, 22 Jun
Somewhere in the darkest depths of your mind, there may lurk the faint memory of Strange and Beautiful, Aqualung's dreamy piano-led lament that in 2002 was v... Read more »| 27 May 2009 -
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The Thermals @ Sneaky Pete's, 16 Jun
Kill Rock Stars’ Death Cab-bothering gems The Thermals bring their brand of “no-fi” indie to Auld Reekie in support of fourth full-length N... Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
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Future Cinema Presents All Tomorrow's Parties @ HMV Picture House, 24 June
Ever drunkenly pumped coins into a 2p machine to the sound of Deerhunter playing Butlins, or spotted Steve Albini fleecing fans at poker while watching Eurov... Read more »| 25 May 2009 -
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The Aliens @ Cabaret Voltaire, 31 May
Rising from the psychological wreckage of the Beta Band, Gordon Anderson has successfully emancipated himself from his past, while retaining just enough of t... Read more »| 25 May 2009 -
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Jack Peñate @ Bongo Club, 16 Jun
Jack Peñate kicks off his summer season with a pre-festival June tour, previewing his forthcoming second album, to include new single Tonight’s ... Read more »| 20 May 2009 -
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Teitur @ King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, 7 Jun
Ultra-melancholy, ludicrously talented, doe-eyed singer-songwriter, blah blah blah… It’s easy to dismiss Faroe Islands native Teitur Lassen as t... Read more »| 19 May 2009 -
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Jarvis Cocker @ ABC, 12 Jun
Out of the ashes of Pulp, the '90s ambassadors of Sheffield Sex City for whom the Britpop label felt more like a noose, rises the awkward phoenix of Jarvis C... Read more »| 18 May 2009 -
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De La Soul @ Picture House, 5 Jun
Pioneering hip-hop trio De La Soul return to our shores, and woe betide anyone still foolish enough to call them hippies. In the two decades since their dayg... Read more »| 18 May 2009 -
Festivals
Exit Festival
Exit Festival celebrates its ten year anniversary this July and will host over 600 performances across 25 stages within the cobbled streets surrounding Petro... Read more »| 05 May 2009