A Wild Night – PINS live

PINS / Baby In Vain – The Cool Cat Club, Beat generator Live, Dundee – Sunday 16th April 2017 A quick catch up on a great gig a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately family commitments meant that I missed Yassassin but at least a couple of folk were raving about them afterwards. I saw most…

Absolutely Nowhere – Spare Snare interview

Spare Snare really do remind me of that famous John Peel quote about The Fall  – ‘Always the same, always different’. (writes Andy Wood) Over nigh on a quarter of a century of recording and gigging, they are, without doubt, always recognisably the Snare but never treading water or sounding anything less than wonderful. For a…

Ghosts and Shadows – Wozniak feature

I stumbled across Edinburgh’s Wozniak almost by accident. It was going along to Hookers for Jesus’s Edinburgh debut where I first saw the band – who were also promoting the show. And I was pretty much hooked from that first show. Whilst the label ‘shoegaze’  was – and still is – applicable to Wozniak (in…

You’re Dead – The Pictish Trail live/photos

The Pictish Trail / Haystack Monolith – Clark’s, Dundee – Wednesday 12th April 2017 I’ve always enjoyed the Pictish Trail live so, even though it was another gig on another school night, I made the short hop over to Clark’s to see Johnny play with a full band for the first time in Dundee, having…

Such Elegant Chaos – British Sea Power / Meursault live

British Sea Power / Meursault – Liquid Room, Edinburgh – Sunday 9th April For a while it almost seemed like MPT and British Sea Power was something of a brief fling. I’d been aware of the band for some time after hearing that they had worked with Bunnyman Will Sergeant but it wasn’t until third LP…

Saturday Morning Shorts #5 – The Paranoid Style, Tom Hickox, Vladimir and BSP

Not so much of a week of older stuff this time. Here’s a new song from the Paranoid Style. It’s a cover of a musical song, allegedly, but, updated lyrics or not, it sounds very much like a Style song and I can’t find any trace of ‘TYPECAST!’ nor its alleged composer on the internet! The…