Teenage Fanclub / Zoey van Goey / We Were Promised Jetpacks – Fat Sam’s Live, 27th October 2008 We Were Promised Jetpacks Myself and Teenage Fanclub go back a long way but this is the first time I’ve paid to see them as headliners since the early 1990s. In fact I don’t think I’ve bought…
Month: October 2008
Doo Doo Doo Doo, Doop Doobie Doo
Tennents Mutual Season 1 – Malcolm Middleton / Los Campesinos! / Eagleowl – Fat Sam’s Live – Thursday 23rd October 2008 For some reason I expected this to be a solo acoustic Malcolm Middleton show, but, no, it turns out to be a band show after all. Which is both a pleasant surprise and a…
Manic Pop Thrills presents – Update
I’ve finally managed to complete the bill for the De Rosa show on 21st November in Dundee and I’m really excited about the two bands who will complete the bill. The Wildhouse can probably track their parentage way back to the Velvet Underground and, based on the tracks on their Myspace they admirably fit the…
Lost In Music
To be honest, this emusic subscription hasn’t quite worked out the way I’d expected. It was supposed to be a cost effective way of listening to a range of new music. But I am just intimidated by the sheer choice on offer – how do you sift through the thousands of artists and find what…
Wealth and Hell Being
I’ve written about the late Guided by Voices on more than 1 occasion but until recently had never been tempted by mainman Robert Pollard’s solo career. That’s down largely to his reputation for being erratic and lacking a modicum of quality control. But his summer LP ‘Robert Pollard’s Off To Business’ garnered respectable reviews and…
Dear Me!
British Sea Power / Film School / Sparrow & The Workshop – Fat Sam’s Live, Dundee – 10th October 2008 The British Sea Power bill at Fat Sam’s in Dundee turns out to be an entertaining three hours or so. Sparrow and the Workshop are onstage when I arrive and the first thing that strikes…
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