Five Years to Get To This (2) – Randolph’s Leap and Tuff Love live

Hen Party entertainment Randolph’s Leap / Tuff Love – Electric Circus, Edinburgh – Saturday 23rd August 2014 It’s not as if we’ve not seen Randolph’s Leap recently but we ended up taking a fairly late decision to go to the Electric Circus last Saturday. The opportunity to purchase tickets for Kid Canaveral’s Christmas Baubles probably…

The Song That Never Ends (Again) – Withered Hand, Samantha Crain and Adam Stafford live

Withered Hand / Samantha Crain / Adam Stafford – Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh – Thursday 21st August 2014 My August Edinburgh madness continued last Thursday with an eagerly anticipated Withered Hand headline show at the Queen’s Hall. With a long established favourite opening the show and a completely new name before the headliner, it looked like…

Five Years To Get To This (1) – Randolph’s Leap/Tuff Love photo review

Randolph’s Leap / Tuff Love – Electric Circus, Edinburgh – Saturday 23rd August 2014 I’m now two written reviews behind schedule and will try and catch up in the course of the week. In the meantime here’s a few photos from last night’s excellent show at the Electric Circus. I’ve started the photo set with…

Paper Hat – New Wozniak video

Just to illustrate the diversity on the wonderful ‘Pikes Peak’ E.P., here’s the second video for a track from the record and really the jaunty  ‘Paper Hat’ couldn’t be much more different than the brooding ‘El Maresme’. There may be a few physical copies of the E.P. still out there in the wild but otherwise…

There Was A Time When All This Felt Right – Meursault live

Meursault / Plastic Animals – Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh – Wednesday 13th August 2014 So that’s it then. Meursault are done and dusted. And it’s no exaggeration to say that last night’s show at the Queen’s Hall marked the end of a significant chapter in recent Scottish music history. Over the last few years there is…

Millions of Hearts With Scars – Split Single LP review

There’s been a few albums I’ve been enjoying over the summer but none more so than ‘Fragmented World’ by Split Single so here’s a quick review. Split Single is the latest project of Jason Narducy, ex Verbow and long time associate of Bob Mould. For the album Narducy recruited Britt Daniel of Spoon and drummer…