Ed Muirhead has been quietly releasing music under his own name since 2011’s Cage For The Clouds album (writes Andy Wood). Having became a solo artist by sheer accident a few years earlier Ed has continued to write, record and release albums. 2013’s beautiful album Simple Life saw him gain a fair bit of attention…
Month: September 2014
Family Entertainment – The Undertones live
The Undertones / Esperanza – The Garage, Glasgow – Saturday 27th September 2014 Last night’s show provided an opportunity to fill in some of the gaps in MPK2’s musical education. Whilst teenage kicks are certainly several decades removed from the vast majority of the audience the Manic Pop family was not the only one to…
We Keep Getting Dropped – Randolph’s Leap interview
MPT’s love affair with Randolph’s Leap continues next weekend when another co-promotion with the Cool Cat Club brings Adam Ross and co back to Dundee for their first ever headline show in the city. Ahead of the show, Andy and myself somehow managed to find some new things to talk to Adam about. First off…
Kisses All Around – Throwing Muses and Tanya Donelly live
Referendum duties meant that the Throwing Muses Glasgow show last Wednesday just wasn’t feasible. But missing a Muses tour is just not an option these so if it needed to be a trip down south to see them then a trip down south it had to be. Having (regrettably) rejected the London shows on cost…
Shaking Things Up – The Everlasting Yeah intervew
Last year MPT was lucky enough to get one of the first interviews done by The Everlasting Yeah, the band formed by ex That Petrol Emotion members Reamann O’Gormain, Ciaran McLaughlin, Damian O’Neill and Brendan Kelly. When MPT last spoke to Reamann the band were on the point of starting to record their debut album…
I Wish I Was at Throwing Muses tonight …
As this appears, I SHOULD be in the queue to get into see Throwing Muses in Glasgow. Unfortunately I’ll more than likely still be at work with the prospect of an all nighter on Thursday. My consolation is a road trip to Holmfirth on Saturday to catch the show there. Here’s some Muses videos to…
Manic Pop Thrills 