Impending – Book Group return to Dundee

Here’s a little heads-up about a co-promoted MPT/Cool Cat Club gig that I’m very much looking forward to on Saturday 24th May at Beat Generator Live in Dundee. To celebrate the impending release of their second E.P. ‘Tantrums’ Book Group make a long overdue return to Dundee. In fact it’s their first appearance in the…

Spreading Wings – The Last Battle LP review

Anyone who has seen the Last Battle live in recent months might have been expecting that their second full length album ‘Lay Your Burden Down’ would be a significantly different beast to their debut ‘Heart of the Land, Soul of the Sea’. In fact ‘beast’ could easily have been the operative word such has been…

Long on Quality – SAY Award musings

At the rather ungodly hour of midnight yesterday the longlist for the third Scottish Album of the Year Award was published. The list seems to have met with general approval from the Twittersphere at least and MPT isn’t going to grumble given that seven of my top 20 Scottish LPs of 2013 have made the…

It’s Like The Cavalry Arriving – Withered Hand live

WITHERED HAND / JO FOSTER / DAN MUTCH – The Liquid Room, Edinburgh – Thursday 17th April 2014 Thursday’s Withered Hand show at the Liquid Room was the big homecoming to mark the release of the excellent second LP ‘New Gods’. And Edinburgh turned out in force to mark the return of Dan Willson. Given…

Videos to Buffer – Throwing Muses

Here’s some videos to tide us over until a live Withered Hand review at the weekend. Above is the latest tune from “Purgatory/Paradise” an animation for ‘Clark’s Nutcracker’. And below is the band’s complete performance from KEXP featuring 4 live versions of tunes from the album: 1. Sunray Venus 2. Freesia 3. Milan 4. Static…

The River Tay Can Be A Cruel Mistress – The Mirror Trap live

The Mirror Trap The Mirror Trap/Cherri Fosphate/Union Chapel – Duke’s Corner, Dundee and STOOR/Bobby Stickah – The Cool Cat Club, Beat Generator Live, Dundee – 11th April 2014 Friday provided something of a bad clash with the Mirror Trap’s eagerly awaited launch night for ‘Stay Young’ up against an intriguing five band Cool Cat Club…