Tongue Trap are an Edinburgh based trio who have been together for about a year after meeting at the Girls Rock School in Edinburgh, which was set up to encourage more young women to form bands and become involved in music (writes Andy Wood). Despite the short time they have been together, Kim, Emma and…
Month: April 2016
Uniform Air of Sadness – Joshua Gray interview
I first met Joshua Gray as a member of Vladimir, a band who excel in dense, heavy set of sonics with a sweet honey core in the middle (writes Andy Wood) Joshua Gray’s solo material is gentler, more delicate but the four recordings he has completed still have a sweet, beautiful sound. It’s probably no…
Belated Filthy postscript
A few belated thoughts on last Friday night’s show which turned out to be a success on all fronts with both a decent turnout and most importantly some great music. As we expected the Filthy Tongues were brilliant right from the opening ‘Jacob’s Ladder’. The set mixed songs from the new record with older material…
Last Reminder – The Filthy Tongues tonight!
A final reminder of tonight’s Filthy Tongues show in Dundee. The band have just released the brilliant album ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ which Andy reviewed earlier in the week at the same time as interviewing singer Martin Metcalfe. Doors are at 8 p.m. and advance tickets will be available until late afternoon either in person from Groucho’s…
Get The Mix Right – Atom Tan interview
St Andrews band Atom Tan seem to be starting to build up an impressive CV of bands they’ve supported. After opening for Big County in Dundee in 2014 they bring their set to Beat Generator Live on Friday in support of the Filthy Tongues. Tom from the band spoke to MPT about their progress to…
Back To The Madness – Filthy Tongues interview
The Filthy Tongues, in their previous guise as Isa and The Filthy Tongues passed me by little (writes Andy Wood). Despite two rather fine albums, singles and writing songs for Richard Jobson’s dark, dystopian Edinburgh set film New Town Killers I hadn’t really kept up with them. That has all changed with the release of…
Manic Pop Thrills 