Heaven Up Here – West End Festival

    The Phantom Band West End Festival All Dayer – featuring The Phantom Band, Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat, We Were Promised Jetpacks, RM Hubbert, Tuff Love, De Rosa and ULTRAS – Oran Mor, Glasgow – Sunday 21st June 2015 It’s been a hectic week so it’s taken me this long to get the…

Monkeys Can Actually Be Mafia Bosses – Francis Duffy and The Kingpins interview

Francis Duffy and The Kingpins are pretty new to my ears (writes Andy Wood) although they have been gigging locally for a couple of years now around Dundee. They first came to my attention via an online demo, ‘The Scratch Tapes’. Despite a title that suggests something roughly recorded in a rehearsal room the songs…

The Start of the Summer – Ash live

Ash / Hyena / The Bucky Rage – Liquid Room, Edinburgh – Tuesday 9th June 2015 It seemed entirely appropriate that Ash should arrive in Edinburgh on the first day of the hottest spell of the year given that new LP ‘Kablammo’ sees the band return to their strength of delivering unadulterated upbeat guitar pop….

There’s No Window – Book Group live

Book Group / digitalanalogue – Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh – Friday 5th June 2015 After a year of shows often burdened with one form of technical difficulty or another Friday night’s Book Group show at Sneaky Pete’s in Edinburgh was a return to blistering form. Burning right from the opening ‘Lowdown of a Loud Sound’ they…