Come and See – STOOR LP review

STOOR – ‘Fleam’ (Stereogram Recordings) Sometimes the great bands are lurking on your doorstep and you simply don’t know that they’re there. If it was unforgiveable to overlook Spare Snare for so many years, the fact that STOOR had escaped my notice was more understandable. Reclusive to the point that they were more likely to…

Song of the Week #11 (2019) – Sugar

Sometimes you need to hear something old . A song I did hear live once back in the day…

Naked Capitalism – Broken Chanter/Jill Lorean live

Broken Chanter / Jill Lorean – Dunfermline Carnegie Library, Dunfermline – Sunday 24th March 2019 Going to rely mainly on the pictures to tell the story of this afternoon’s Broken Chanter show in Dunfermline Library, but it was a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon with an absolutely terrific turnout. Broken Chanter played: 1. Wholesale2. Should We Be…

Song of the Week #10 (2019) – Randolph’s Leap

I’ve got quite a choice of new songs with singles from the Dream Syndicate and Idlewild. But I’m going to go instead with the new single from Randolph’s Leap. ‘Mull’ is taken from the forthcoming EP of the same name and this version has been labelled as ‘Fast’ and ‘Alternative’ versions of the song. I’m…

Crazy Up Here – Bob Mould live

It seems hard to remember now, but there was a time when the odds of seeing another full band Bob Mould show seemed remote. Particularly considering that this was the fifth gig in Scotland since the release of ‘Silver Age’ in 2012. Within that context, this was never going to be a show that would…

Final Night – Thula Borah live

Thula Borah / Swearwolves – Nice’n’Sleazy’s, Glasgow – Friday 8th March 2019 To some extent Thula Borah were a band who slightly fell between the cracks for me. I always liked the records but a combination of factors meant that I didn’t see them as often as I’d have liked. So the least I could…