O Your Nut

Malcolm Middleton/The Pictish Trail – King Tut’s Wah Wah Sweat Box, 28th June 2009 If he stays true to his word, then there aren’t going to be too many more Malcolm Middleton solo shows after the tour to promote his latest LP ‘Waxing Gibbous’ ends. And on the evidence of Sunday night’s show at King…

The Only Way Is Up

The opening chords of ‘Keeping Warm’ start to strum just as the train I’m on reaches the Forth Bridge. As a soundtrack to crossing the river it’s well nigh perfect – the magnificent instrumental passage almost dwarfing the sight of the road bridge. It seems entirely apposite as well to be listening to ‘These Four…

De Rosa Split

Bugger. De Rosa have confirmed that they have split up. The news comes on the back of a handful of cancelled dates in the last couple of months. My first inkling that there was a problem came when speaking to Martin on the Sunday at Homegame. Whilst he wasn’t specific as to what was wrong,…

Post Electric

The fact that a new Idlewild LP has been released that may have passed you by since, so far, it has been self released in a limited edition of 3,000. It’s an attempt, I guess, to make a living from their music in a different way so the ‘Post-Electric Blues’ LP has been supplemented by…

Everything We Dream Is Clear

There’s something of a paradox at the heart of Sonic Youth’s ‘The Eternal’. Whilst like most if not all recent SY albums, it undeniably feels familiar, I’m finding that jumping to conclusions about these albums often leads me in the wrong direction. And despite the fact that, overall, this is Sonic Youth at their most…

The Calm and the Storm

We Were Promised Jetpacks/Panda Su – Doghouse, Dundee – Wednesday 10th June 2009 My first trip to the re-opened Doghouse was the perfect antidote to a really shitty day at work. The principal attraction was We Were Promised Jetpacks. Now I’ve seen the Jetpacks a good few times over the last 3 years ( I…