Back to the Simple Minds box set for the final 3 discs in the ‘X5’ collection. ‘Sons and Fascination’ and ‘Sister Feelings Call’ have something of an on/off/on again relationship – are they part of the same record or two separate but simultaneous releases? Let’s say both. Whatever their relationship, they mark a move away…
Month: February 2012
Human Don’t Be Angry and the Angry Band – HDBA live
Human Don’t Be Angry / Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat – Margins Book and Music Festival – The Arches, Glasgow – 25th February 2012 At long, long last I finally managed to get out of the house for a gig last night and frankly if I hadn’t managed it for the Malcolm Middleton/Aidan Moffat double…
March Along Now – Simple Minds box set
When you hear that a band “used to be good” then it’s a safe bet that at some stage in their careers that band has committed some musical atrocities. So it is with Simple Minds best known as the overblown stadium act of the late 80s and early 90s. However the evidence that “they used…
Mime Shirts
Song, By Toad has just uploaded the Kid Canaveral Toad session from which the KC-less version of ‘Homerun and A Vow’ above is taken. Recorded back in July last year the session also features versions of ‘And Another Thing!!’, ‘You Only Went Out To Get Drunk Last Night’ and ‘Her Hair Hangs Down’. The session…
In The Margins
Well, all going to plan, I will finally drag myself out of the house to go to a gig for the first time this year on Saturday. And to be honest it looks like a cracker. The first ever Human Don’t Be Angry band show will take place as part of the Margins Book and…
Sorry Again, Mate – Field Music LP review
“Just like everybody else” sings one of the Brewis brothers on Field Music‘s fourth LP ‘Plumb’. Rather disingenuously because, indubitably, Field Music are NOT anything like anyone else. And it’s almost because of that that I almost gave up on ‘Plumb’ halfway through the first listen. Picking up where predecessor LP ‘Measure’ left off, the…
Manic Pop Thrills 