Broken Records / Adam Stafford – Summerhall, Edinburgh – Saturday 20th August, 2016 Being honest our attendance at this show was as much down to MPK2 wanting to see Broken Records again as anything else. However with Adam Stafford in support a deal was struck to attend the show. As ever it wasn’t a good…
Month: August 2016
The Daily Human Challenge – Jeffrey Lewis interview
Jeffrey Lewis’s biography describes him as leading a double (or even triple) life as a both a comic book writer and artist as well as a musician and performer (writes Andy Wood). But it seems to me that all these facets are intimately interlinked and, to an extent, complementary. Jeffrey Lewis writes wonderfully about the…
Some Things I Just Know – Whyte Horses video
Whilst in Manchester on holiday recently I managed to visit Piccadilly Records for the first time. Based on that one visit, I’ve got to say that it’s one of my favourite record shops in the country. So I was quite keen to try and find something new. And July turned out to be a good…
Music With A Scottish Accent – Upside Doon
A new one day music event takes place next weekend (Saturday 20 August) in deepest Ayrshire. Upside Doon is curated by the team at the National Trust for Scotland’s award-winning Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway. Featuring ‘music with a Scots accent’, the bill brings together an eclectic collection of artists from Scotland’s folk, hip…
Stand Up, Sit Down, Stand Up … Dance! – Idlewild live
Idlewild / C Duncan – Summer Nights @ The Kelvingrove Bandstand – Friday 5th August, 2016 Perhaps the real story of Friday night’s show, the umpteenth time that I’ve seen Idlewild, was the Dancing Resistance. If you’ve never been there before the Kelvingrove Bandstand has rows of concrete seats which are quite handy on a…
Running 30 Miles In A Day – An Evening With Low
An Evening With Low – The Sage 2, Gateshead – Thursday 4th October, 2016 I’ll get drummed out of the indie fraternity for this but, until relatively recently, Low didn’t mean very much to me at all. Obviously I’ve been aware of them for a number of years but, never having actually heard them, nothing I…
Manic Pop Thrills 