The Wedding Present – Beat Generator Live, Dundee – Thursday 4th April 2019 For a band that started out at the Greenside in Leslie, the Wedding Present haven’t half done badly for themselves, moving from sold-out shows in Fife to a sold-out show in the Big Smoke! The promise of an early show means that…
Month: April 2019
Song of the Week #14 – Echo Machine
Dundee’s Echo Machine returned last week third single ‘Chameleon’. Featuring Gary, Mike and Ben from the Mirror Trap, the band capture the energy of their previous group yet choose to deliver using wild synths rather than heavy guitars. There’s definitely a link back to the songwriting of the Mirror Trap yet Echo Machine manage to…
Song of the Week #13 – Steve Mason
Seems like this Steve Mason song actually came out at the tail end of last year but I’ve only just heard it and since it’s on the recently released album “About The Light” it qualifies for Song of the Week. It’s a great pop song which lure me into listening to yet another relatively well…
Banging On – STOOR live
STOOR / Simon Reid / A Hooker Without Jesus – Beat Generator Live, Dundee – Saturday 30th March 2019 I’m going to keep banging on about STOOR frankly until someone makes me stop. New album ‘Fleam’ (out now on Stereogram!) is destined to be one of the albums of the year so last weekend’s launch…
MPT Quarterly Report (Q1, 2019)
As is fast becoming a tradition, here’s another quarterly Spotify playlist to reflect new music from the last 3 months. As ever it’s a mix of singles and album tracks with quite a few new names around here (including Better Oblivion Community Centre and Gong Gong Gong III the latter who supported Bodega in February)…
Song of the Week #12 (2019) – Chris Forsyth
This one is out of the blue. The song that stood out for me on the latest Uncut CD was ‘Dream Song’ by Chris Forsyth, taken from his forthcoming LP (12 April) ‘All Time Present’. ‘Dream Song’ very much puts me in mind of Steve Wynn stretching out one of his heavier numbers. I think…
Manic Pop Thrills 