Song of the Week #37 (2018) – Bob Mould

Increased social media activity in the last couple of weeks suggested something was brewing in the Bob Mould camp and sure enough yesterday saw news of his next album and tour dates AND the first song from the record. In common with first releases from his new records in recent years, ‘Sunshine Rock’ is very…

Go For It! – The Lovely Eggs live

The Lovely Eggs / Rob Auton / ILL – Beat Generator Live, Dundee – Thursday 11th October 2018 Having stumbled across the brilliant ‘This Is Eggland’ LP earlier this year, and learning at more or less the same time that Andy had booked the Lovely Eggs for a Dundee show, this one was in the…

Song of the Week #36 (2018) – The Filthy Tongues

Not been so good at keeping up with the Songs of the Week recently but the new single from the Filthy Tongues is worth flagging up for a couple of reasons. Firstly, ‘Back to Hell’ is a great album that deserves to get another push. And secondly the single version of ‘The Ghost of Rab…

Strangers In Our Front Room – Broken Chanter house gig

Broken Chanter / Jill Lorean – MPLR, Cupar – 22nd September 2018 The problem with doing these things chronologically is, once you’re behind, you’re behind. So this is fully a month late … Our second house gig featured the combined talents of David MacGregor (Kid Canaveral) and Jill Lorean (better known as Jill O’Sullivan from…

A Belated Sup – Emma Pollock/Martin Carr/Rachel Sermanni live

Emma Pollock / Martin Carr / Rachel Sermanni/ James Yorkston – Tae Sup Wi’ A Fifer, Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy – 7th September 2018 In what’s becoming a frustrating tradition, here’s another month old (plus) live review …. We’d always meant to get along to one of the ‘Tae Sups’ but had never taken a…

Song of the Week #35 (2018) – The Sound

A song for our times. “From the safest places, come the bravest words” The original version of the song is taken from the 1981 album ‘From The Lion’s Mouth’. FLTM is available in a 4 disc reissue of the band’s first 3 albums.