Did You Learn Some Lessons? Kid Canaveral LP review

Once upon a time Kid Canaveral couldn’t dance. Now, according to the title of their second LP ‘Now That YouAre A Dancer’ it seems that they can. Ample proof, if any were needed, that since I first saw them four and a half years ago (third on the bill at the GRV supporting De Rosa)…

The Sound of Your Lies – Man Without Machines LP review

March is going to see the release of several LPs from MPT’s list of albums to look forward to in 2013 and first up on 4th March will be Dundee’s Man Without Machines with ‘The Kreuzberg Press’. Man Without Machines was initially a solo project of Spare Snare’s Adam Lockhart, but it’s expanded from that…

Source Code (Trepidation #1) – Christopher Brookmyre novel

This isn’t the first piece I’ve written about something I’ve approached with a degree of trepidation. And it certainly won’t be the last but maybe that says more about me rather than whatever I’m writing about. But there’s no getting away from the fact that I did approach Christopher Brookmyre’s new novel, ‘Bedlam’, with more…

Madhouse Blues – Creeping Ivies / Los Tentakills / The Fnords / Bobby Stickah live

Creeping Ivies / Los Tentakills / The Fnords / Bobby Stickah – Cool Cat Club, Beat Generator Live, Dundee – Saturday 16th February 2013 A brief round-up of last night’s Cool Cat Club line-up. Thoroughly enjoyed the Creeping Ivies’ primal rock’n’roll and it’s nice to see them starting to build up a bit of a…

A Bonfire In The Hills – Los Tentakills interview

Los Tentakills appear to have been formed from a serious of random interactions in deepest, unexplored space (writes Andy Wood). A freakish explosion of garage fuzz, rock ‘n’ roll twang and psychedelic rumblings in an as yet unexplained cosmic occurrence. Landed in Glasgow they made their way back to one another to form a band…

I Am The Ghost – Creeping Ivies interview

The Creeping Ivies are one of my favourite bands around at the moment (writes Andy Wood). Sure, I count them as friends as well, but even if I’d never met them I’d still adore them. While some bands have a great sound and others a cool look or aesthetic, the two Creeping Ivies, Becca Bomb…