What’s In The Red Box? – Spare Snare live

Spare Snare / Haystack Monolith / Esperi – New Portsound – Rio Community Centre, Newport-on-Tay – Saturday 17th September, 2016 A somewhat belated review for what was supposed to be the last Spare Snare gig of 2016. First up was Esperi and Chris Marr’s blend of looped magic. The first couple of tunes were fairly…

Looking Back on Last Night

Kid Canaveral A few thoughts on last night’s show. The more I do, the more I think that putting on gigs in Dundee relies to a large extent on luck. Certainly we’ve put on Kid Canaveral in Dundee 4 times now with wildly differing results and we feel that nothing we’ve done has really had…

Saturday’s Show – All The Details

This beauty of a show will be brought to you on Saturday courtesy of the Cool Cat Club and MPT and I’m looking forward to it very much. Advance tickets are still available at £8 (stbf) from Groucho’s in Dundee or online from We Got Tickets. More info on the show including some more videos…

It Pays to Have a Gang – Kid Canaveral interview

  Kid Canaveral have been a constant on this blog as I’ve followed them through from their third single to their recently released third LP ‘Faulty Inner Dialogue’. It’s been rewarding to follow the band on that journey as they’ve gained in confidence both as a live band and on record and in ‘Faulty Inner…

You Are Elvis – Blue Aeroplanes videos

A brief break from plugging next Saturday’s Kid Canaveral / Book Group / Faiides show to bring you the new, fun, video from Bristol’s finest, The Blue Aeroplanes: ‘Elvis Festival’ is a taster for the band’s new LP ‘Welcome, Stranger!’ which is released in January. To mark the occasion the band are setting out on…

Portrait of the Artist As A Fan – Book Group interview

Book Group return to Dundee next Saturday (24th September) for their second Cool Cat Club show of the year this time supporting Kid Canaveral. Ahead of the show Andy caught up with Graeme and Michael to talk over favourites. Please introduce yourself briefly and tell us what your role is in Book Group? M: I’m…