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ReviewsWe Were Promised Jetpacks @ The Liquid Room, 21 Aug
To the uninitiated, We Were Promised Jetpack’s set tonight will likely come across as a bit ‘samey’. To those accustomed to last year&rsquo... Read more »| 25 Aug 2010 -
ReviewsSteve Mason @ The Liquid Room 18 Aug
A newly reopened Liquid Room tonight plays host to one of its favourite sons, and as reunions go, this would take some beating for emotional resonance. Scene... Read more »| 24 Aug 2010 -
ReviewsBeirut @ HMV Picture House, 22 Aug
“I fuckin’ love you Zach!” shouts one punter near the end of Beirut’s stunning performance tonight. “Ah luv yi too!” resp... Read more »| 24 Aug 2010 -
ReviewsThe Besnard Lakes @ Sneaky Pete's, 17 Aug
It’s been three years since Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters. Ample time for a trio of young lads known as Heart Beats (****) to graduate from Th... Read more »| 23 Aug 2010 -
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Hallogallo 2010 @ HMV Picture House, 17 Aug
Tonight I figure out what's so special about the Neu! beat: it's the one groove that bypasses the hips altogether. Go to any club night and you'll shake your... Read more »| 23 Aug 2010 -
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Newt @ The Lot, 7 Aug
Aberdonian guitarist Graham Stephen kicks off the evening in reflective mode, but soon enough he's heating up an already temperate room; he's got clean abstr... Read more »| 10 Aug 2010
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Haftor Medbøe Group @ Voodoo Rooms, 6 Aug
With a line-up featuring saxaphone, trombone, drums and bass, one might expect a piano, but the chorded instrument here is Haftor Medbøe's guitar, whi... Read more »| 10 Aug 2010 -
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Calvin Johnson @ Hyndland Community Hall, 3 Aug
If a poll was ever commissioned to determine a social order of indie-cred in modern music then Calvin Johnson would surely be a heavy contender for the thron... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010 -
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Lizzard Lounge @ HMV Picture House, 30 Jul
The Picture House is a bigger venue than the Lizzard Lounge is used to (being a much loved, now passed Edinburgh club night), but the transition works well a... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010 -
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Samuel Hällkvist Center @ Voodoo Rooms, 31 Jul
Joe Zawinul once said of his band Weather Report, "We never solo, and we always solo", and this gnomic remark could be usefully applied to Hällkvist's S... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010 -
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Jon Cleary @ Assembly, Princes Street Gardens, 31 Jul
Jon Cleary's piano trio bring some authentic New Orleans gumbo to a sunny Edinburgh afternoon; close your eyes and you could be on Beale Street hearing the s... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010 -
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Wu-Tang Clan @ O2 Academy, 1 Aug
Let’s get the negatives out of the way. First, reuniting the entire Wu-Tang Clan ‘In Full Force’ as billed was never going to be easy; toni... Read more »| 04 Aug 2010 -
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Themselves @ Electric Circus, 24 Jul
In the face of adversity – a venue bustling with hen parties, an atrocious sound system and delayed, lackadaisical support – it’s beautiful... Read more »| 04 Aug 2010 -
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Shearwater @ Stereo, 28 Jul
Stripped back to just founder member Jonathan Knight, My Cousin I Bid You Farewell's music arguably benefits from the increased intimacy of its current forma... Read more »| 02 Aug 2010 -
ReviewsPublic Image Ltd @ O2 ABC, 26 Jul
35 years into his career as perhaps Britain's most undervalued frontman, John Lydon brings his crack team of musical marauders to the ABC for two and a quart... Read more »| 27 Jul 2010