Month: October 2013

Wozzilla!!!

One of my best discoveries this year has been new Edinburgh band Wozniak. Having been fortunate to catch their first public performance a few months ago, I was pleased to catch them again more recently in Dundee where advance copies of their debut single ‘MFMB’ were available. Wozniak are a largely instrumental band whose approach…

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Lifers #2 – Throwing Muses LP Preview

Finally, here’s the second Throwing Muses piece which has partly been delayed by real life but also by the hope that a couple of further contributions might arrive. (Still time for a part 3 if they do). The new Muses album/book ‘Purgatory/Paradise’ is released tomorrow officially – you really should get a copy. Hopefully the…

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Video to Buffer #3 – The Spook School

This is in danger of becoming a proper series … But in lieu of hopefully returning to some semblance of normality next week, here’s a look at  the video for ‘I’ll Be Honest’ the new single from the Spook School. I saw them for the first and so far only time last June on a…

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Lifers #1 – Throwing Muses LP preview

I thought it would be nice to mark the imminent release of the new Throwing Muses LP ‘Purgatory/Paradise’ with a feature of some kind. Knowing that a number of Scottish based musicians were fans, the idea of trying to involve them took hold. But when my plea for anyone to take part on Twitter was…

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On The Steel Breeze – Alastair Reynolds novel

I confess that I’ve not done too much reading recently. There’s a couple of things I’ve struggled to get into but for the most part there’s been just too much other stuff going on in the real world to find time to settle down with a good book. But if there’s an author able to…

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