Kristin Hersh / Fred Abong / Beerjacket – Museum of the Moon, Mackintosh Queen’s Cross, Glasgow – Sunday 24th June 2018 It seems like a long time ago, but I have vague recollections of seeing Kristin Hersh before heading off on holiday. The show was part of a run under the Museum of the Moon,…
Month: July 2018
Song of the Week #27 – We Were Promised Jetpacks
Although it’s nearly 2 years since they started playing new songs live, the first release from We Were Promised Jetpacks since 2014 only arrived at the tail end of last week. ‘Hanging In’ is the first single from upcoming album ‘The More I Sleep, The Less I Dream’ which will be released on new label…
Songs of the Week #26 (2018) – Whitehorse
Bit hacked off that Song of the Week seems to have had a longer holiday than we managed! But now, fully refreshed it’s back for the rest of the year and it resumes with a couple of songs to fuel my Whitehorse mini-obsession. Last week I talked about coming across the Canadian duo at a…
An Eclectic Canada Day Weekend in Toronto
Whitehorse / Jully Black / Zaki Ibrahim / Pierre Kwenders – Harbourfront Centre, Toronto – Saturday 30th June / Sunday 1st July 2018 This was something of a surprise to say the least. When we’d booked our trip to Canada we did have a look to see if there was any music on that we…
MPT Quarterly Report – 2018 #2
Here’s a Spotify playlist of songs from 2018 albums that I’ve bought since March. Interestingly I can only attribute two of the purchases (Neko Case and Rolling Blackouts CF) to auditioning the album on Spotify. That’s the same number as the number of records purchased as a consequence of seeing an act live (the Monochrome…
Record (CD) Shopping in Canada
Our recent trip to Canada offered some limited opportunities to check out some of Canadas’s record stores. The two things that struck me in pre-trip research was a) how dominant vinyl is in Canada and b) how many shops there actually are. Concentrating on CDs therefore was the way to best use my time (and…
Manic Pop Thrills 