Month: March 2018

Lock The Door! – Book Group live

Book Group / Annie Booth – Safari Lounge, Edinburgh – Thursday 29th March, 2018 Book Group – it’s been quite a while. 2017 actually managed to pass without me seeing BG live once due to a scarcity of dates and a couple of unfortunate clashes. As a result, there was really no soft landing for…

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Song of the Week #12 (2018) – Birdhead

Birdhead have finally released a new single – almost 18 months after ‘Custom Muscle’. ‘Sunsleeper’ was  a highlight of their breath-taking performance in Dundee at the tail end of last year supporting the Filthy Tongues  – the best show the best show this humble scribe as seen the band play probably going as far back…

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Song of the Week #11 (2018) – Firestations

I came across the impressive Firestations for the first time at Kid Canaveral’s Xmas Baubles a couple of years ago and enjoyed their set a lot. They talked about some of the songs that night being new songs from their second LP but recorded evidence of that only arrived at the tail end of last…

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The Sound of Young Scotland – Mini-Festival Preview

There are so many new bands around at the moment that it becomes hard to keep a track of whose who, so for the second year running The Cool Cat Club have put together a mini-festival or extended play show if you prefer featuring no less than seven up and coming Scottish bands. The Sound…

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Song of the Week #10 (2018) – The Vintage Calvinos

Stereogram have just released the third single from the Vintage Calvinos‘ debut album ‘Invitation to Infamy’. ‘Teardrops In My Eyes’ is, perhaps, the most immediately accessible track from a very fine album which is not bad going considering that the album is packed with melodic gems. ‘Teardrops In My Eyes’ is available as a download…

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