Previews
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PreviewsLive Music Highlights - May, 2009
The very best of the current Scottish crop - and beyond - perform as part of the Stag and Dagger festival on 23 May. Read more »| 28 Apr 2009 -
PreviewsThis Is Music - Third Birthday-Fest
This Is Music, a stalwart of the Edinburgh live music scene, celebrates its third birthday with two gigs in one night, with familiar faces and brand new friends both on the bill. Read more »| 28 Apr 2009 -
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Pivot @ Nice 'n' Sleazy, 12 May
Pivot are another of dance label Warp's recent forays into the world of guitar noise, and it seems that this is a successful one. The Australian trio release... Read more »| 28 Apr 2009 -
Festivals
Meursault @ Stag & Dagger Festival, Glasgow, 23 May
Albert Camus' Meursault is a man persecuted, and eventually executed, for his distinct inability to react with the same expanse of emotions as the rest of us... Read more »| 28 Apr 2009 -
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Chairlift @ Stereo, 17 May
Fresh-faced members of the New York scene that spawned the likes of MGMT and Apache Beat, Brooklyn’s Chairlift are not to be written off as part of the... Read more »| 28 Apr 2009 -
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Primavera Sound: Sun, sea and shoegaze
So the recession may be biting, but one festival is worth consolidating your debts for. Nick Mitchell looks forward to Primavera Sound. Read more »| 27 Apr 2009
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PreviewsRoss Clark @ Òran Mór, Glasgow, 24 Jun
Native Glaswegian Ross Clark has become a mainstay on the Scottish music scene. Describing his own sound as ‘fucked-up country’, Clark’s a... Read more »| 27 Apr 2009 -
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Alasdair Roberts @ Cabaret Voltaire, 22 May
Alasdair Roberts returns to tour in support of his forthcoming album Spoils Read more »| 27 Apr 2009 -
Festivals
Outsider Festival: Now There's An Idea...
(SINCE THIS ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN THE OUTSIDER FESTIVAL HAS SADLY BEEN CANCELLED) Read more »| 27 Apr 2009 -
PreviewsHinterland: Edie Sedgwick @ The Admiral Bar, 30 Apr
Edie Sedgwick, according to 'her' bio, is the transgendered reincarnation of the once famous Andy Warhol muse with the same name. Here to save the world thro... Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
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Deerhunter @ Stereo, Glasgow, 20 May
Bradford Cox, lead singer with arty shoegaze revivalists Deerhunter, is a giant, in more ways than one. If you were to delve into the mind of this towering f... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
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Andrew Bird @ Òran Mór, 14 May
Slightly weird Illinois multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird packs up his guitar, mandolin, glockenspiel and whatever other instruments he can fit into his back... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
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Son of Dave @ King Tut's, 7 May
Wearing a three-piece suit and sitting down, armed with only a shaker, a few harmonicas and an ancient Akai sampler, Son of Dave – or Dave Jr., as he i... Read more »| 22 Apr 2009 -
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Friendly Fires @ The Picture House, 6 May
They might have rode in amid next-big-thing hysteria, but dismiss St Albans trio Friendly Fires as over-hyped at your peril. Last year’s self-titled de... Read more »| 22 Apr 2009 -
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Alec Empire @ Ivory Blacks, 3 May
Former Atari Teenage Riot mastermind Alec Empire (who was already fusing punk and dance when Liam Howlett was still making compilation ‘rave’ cas... Read more »| 21 Apr 2009