New Wozniak track!

After the release of single ‘Perihelion’ earlier this month, Wozniak have released another song, ‘Shader’, from debut LP ‘Courage Reels’ ahead of the release of the album itself on 21st April. The nine track LP is all new material (other than the recent single) and was developed over the course of last year. ‘Courage Reels’…

Believe In Your Luck – Wire LP

Tomorrow (Friday 31st March) sees the release of Wire‘s new LP ‘Silver/Lead’. Released to coincide (almost exactly) with the 40th anniversary of the band’s first gig as a four piece, ‘Silver/Lead’ is a bit of a departure in that it’s the band’s slowest album ever. The first track released, ‘Short Elevated Period’ (featured here a…

Meat For A Fortnight – Kid Canaveral live

Kid Canaveral / Sonny Carntyne / Randolph’s Leap (solo) – Rio Centre, Newport-on-Tay – Friday 24th March 2017 A sold-out New Portsound welcomed Kid Canaveral to Newport-on-Tay on Friday for an ultimately triumphant set. Initially though there was something missing when Kid C started with ‘First We Take Dumbarton’ – turned out it was the guitars,…

Saturday Morning Shorts #2 – Withered Hand, The Paranoid Style, Magazine, Laura Marling and The Bats

Having reached a second digit, this in danger of matching the record for a series on MPT. Anyhow, here’s a few things I’ve been listening to this week, some old, some new. So the recent Dundee gig sent me back to Withered Hand and ‘New Gods’. This might be my favourite on the record: The…

It’s Only Thunder, Darling – Oddnesse single

Even if it came out last year, one of the best things I’ve heard this year so far was ‘Someone Somewhere’ by Oddnesse, the video for which I featured a few weeks back. ‘Someone Somewhere’ was the first of four singles to be released by Oddnesse which, as far as I can make out, is…

Upside Doon announces first batch of bands

The second edition of Alloway’s one day music festival Upside Doon looks like it will be every bit as eclectic as the first if the first batch of bands announced for its 2017 line up are any indication. The one-dayer’s debut event was full of top Scottish talent, with sets from King Creosote, Niteworks and…