No-One Has Made It Yet To The Next Level – Andrew C Ferguson E.P. review

There’s that moment of dread when someone you know gives you their music – particularly if you know it’s someone whose musical taste doesn’t necessarily significantly overlap with your own. And when it’s someone you work (almost literally) beside then you can surely understand the trepidation – at least if you’ve realised how much of…

Where Would I Go? – Swaying Wires video

Here’s a lovely song for a Friday evening from Swaying Wires. I don’t know a great deal about them other than the fact that they’re from Finland and they’re on the excellent Battle Worldwide Records. But here’s ‘Nowhere’ – see what you think: ‘Nowhere’ is taken from their recently released ‘I Left A House Burning’…

Missed Gigs – Tuff Love

Sadly I couldn’t summon up the energy to go and see Tuff Love at Summerhall last night. So instead here’s a quick mention of their debut LP ‘Resort’ and a couple of videos. Out on Lost Map, ‘Resort’ collects together the band’s three EPs to date in chronological order (although not ‘Groucho’ their contribution to…

STOOR vs The Cathode Ray – 26th March

Delighted that two of my current favourite Scottish band are getting together for a special gig in Edinburgh on Saturday 26th March. Both STOOR’s self titled debut and the Cathode Ray’s ‘Infinite Variety’ of course featured highly in not just my end of year list but also in Andy’s. The two records then went on…

Reconnected? Super! – Belly reunion

MPT is always a bit behind with the news but last week’s announcement that Tanya Donelly’s 90s post Throwing Muses band Belly have reformed seems worth drawing to your attention. The announcement came somewhat out of the blue but is all the more welcome for that. After a number of quiet years former Muse Tanya…

I’m Having Trouble With My Head – The Filthy Tongues video

I’ve said this before but I’m something of an oddity as a fan of the Filthy Tongues. Right age (probably) but I’m not someone who was more than aware of certain Goodbye Mr Mackenzie songs at the time. I first caught Isa & The Filthy Tongues live back in May 2006 and had this to…