Song of the Week 21 (2018) – The Filthy Tongues

This week’s Song of the Week is ‘Come on Home’ the new single from the Filthy Tongues and is taken from the band’s recently released second LP ‘Back to Hell’. It seems weird now that on first hearing the song live a few weeks ago, it seemed to me to be the least immediate of…

Beer, Beer, Porridge – Billordo / The Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers live

Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers – ReImagination – Rothes Halls, Glenrothes, and Billordo, Conroy’s Basement, Dundee – both Saturday 19th May 2018 This was a bit of a rum evening. By the time the return of Billordo to Dundee was announced we’d already booked tickets for the climax of the ReImagination mini-book festival in Glenrothes –…

Even Better Than The First Scotland – Nap Eyes live

Nap Eyes / Haley Heynderickx / Order of the Toad – The Hug and Pint, Glasgow – Thursday 10th May 2018 I first came across Nap Eyes nearly 3 years ago when the ‘influences’ quoted on a listening post at Rough Trade tempted me into listening to the start of their debut album. That album…

Song of the Week #20 (2018) – Warm Digits

The first band we saw at Stag and Dagger a couple of weeks ago was Warm Digits. I enjoyed the band’s set and picked up the current album afterwards whilst they were also MPK2’s favourite act of the evening. I initially thought I was going to feature ‘The Rumble and the Tremor’ (featuring Devon Sproule)…

‘Of what went on, we only have this excerpt’: Flashes of a life with Mark E. Smith and The Fall (by Andy Wood)

‘Of what went on, we only have this excerpt’: Flashes of a life with Mark E. Smith and The Fall (by Andy Wood) ‘I create the drama.’ So states Mark E. Smith on ’Victoria Train Station Massacre’ on The Fall’s final studio album, New Facts Emerge released a few months prior to Smith’s death in…

Wakey, Wakey! – Wire and Protomartyr live

Stag and Dagger Festival 2018 – Wire / Protomartyr / Bo Ningen / Warm Digits – The Art School, Glasgow – Sunday 6th May 2018 The lure of Wire and Protomartyr had flagged up this year’s Stag and Dagger as a possibility but the deal was only really sealed when I discovered that both were…