And When You Do, Don’t Twist It

As a postscript to the Wire review at the weekend I discovered yesterday that the band are out and about in coming months with tours of the UK, Europe and North America. In fact they’re in Scotland next week with shows at Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh next Tuesday (8th Feb) and King Tut’s in Glasgow on…

Please Take Your Knife Out Of My Back

Every now and then there’s an eMusic purchase that just jumps out and grabs me and ‘Red Barked Tree’ by Wire is the first to do that in 2011. I’ve always had a tangential relationship with Wire, I know a number of their songs but until now only owned one LP – ‘Manscape’ from their…

Spare Phantoms Don’t Be Angry

That proper post eludes me. So just time to report on two bits of recent tour news. The Phantom Band revealed an extensive UK and European tour a couple of weeks ago. (Details). But they have now asked Spare Snare to support them on their Dundee date on March 18th at the Doghouse. Malcolm Middleton…

Panda Begin

Sorry, I’ve got an album to review but no time tonight or tomorrow in which to do so. Looking on the bright side, it will be a more considered review! In the meantime … She ain’t manic (at least not since her HM days) and she’s arguably only a little bit pop but Manic Pop…

Sleep Is Giving In

Spent part of this evening watching an Arcade Fire live show on MTV Rocks! Shot in Galicia on last year’s tour. Which brought back good memories of the SECC gig in December. What was interesting was that the 9 songs or so stripped away a lot of the live overload and brought the arrangements to…

Scottish Celebrity Deathmatch

I mentioned Let’s Get Lyrical last week in terms of the Dylan Uncovered show and another event has also caught my eye. “A Lyrical Death Match: Cargo vs Chemikal” is being put together by, well,  Cargo Publishing and Chemikal Underground Records. Chemikal, of course have a track record with this sort of thing with the…