Goodbye Cruel Hotel Lobby – Withered Hand EP

After being so dilatory at getting hold of the last Withered Hand EP, there were no delays in getting hold of the new record ‘Inbetweens’, released this week as a 4 track 10” single. If ‘Heart, Heart’ was a largely raucous record, ‘Inbetweens’ is a much more restrained affair marking a return to the more…

Nostalgia Is What It Used To Be – Dirty Harry live

Dirty Harry – Beat Generator Live, Dundee – 28th September 2012 I’ve never seen the point of tribute bands before always thinking that if you want to relive past glories of a band that’s no longer around there’s always the records. But it would be fair to acknowledge that there’s not that much of my…

Some Times I’m Vague

Stumbled across the following song the other night `on the iPod. Lush had first crossed my radar with the ‘Scar’ mini-LP and ‘De-Luxe’ seemed to fulfill all that record’s promise. But, a bit like Ride, I’m not sure that they ever quite recaptured the same heights again. Indeed without checking, although I’ve got all the…

The Return of Meursault

I’m delighted to be able to confirm full details of the Meursault show in Dundee. As previously announced the band will be playing at Beat Generator Live! on Friday 9th November. It’s an early show with doors opeing at 7.30pm and the first band will be on shortly after that since we’ve got a 10:30…

Head to Head – Jesca Hoop vs Family of the Year

It’s nice to shake things up from time to time and one of the recent Uncut CDs pointed me in the direction of a couple of records I would otherwise never have heard. ‘The House That Jack Built’ by Jesca Hoop seems perched somewhere between St Vincent and Catlow. It’s a record of ambitious arrangements…

A Brighter Beat – How to get tickets

No more tinkering with the ‘A Brighter Beat‘ poster – that’s it. Although strictly speaking that’s the flyer. Yes –  Kid Canaveral, Cancel The Astronauts, TV21, Martin John Henry, The Bad Books and Sam Barber & the Outcasts all for a tenner – profits to the Kingdom Kids charity. Anyhow, pedantry aside, tickets are now…