Song of the Week #2 (2020) – Mitchell Museum

Last week saw the release of a new tune from MPT favourites Mitchell Museum. Yet ‘Hold Me Up’ apparently isn’t a new single and it’s not even on the band’s third long-player ‘Skinny Tricks’ which is due out via Scottish Fiction on Friday 15th May 2020 on gatefold vinyl, CD, and digital download. Enough of…

Recovery Mode #3 – November / December gigs

Despite illness I still managed to see the following acts in November and December: The Cathode Ray / STOOR / Roy Moller / Shock and Awe / Wozniak / Book Group / Seas, Starry / Withered Hand (3 times!) / De Rosa (twice) / Jill Lorean / Goodbye Mr Mackenzie (twice)  / The Filthy Tongues…

Song of the Week #1 (2020) – Lankum

Picked up the Lankum album ‘The Livelong Day’ on the strength of having seen them at Doune the Rabbit Hole last year. It’s a record that uses traditional Irish folk as a starting point but is in some places nothing less than a slow core record. That’s best illustrated by their cover of the traditional…

2019 Playlist

To conclude my look back on 2019 here’s a playlist of 50 of my favourite songs of the last 12 months, mainly new but with a handful of classics from  reissues thrown in for good measure.

2019 – Records

I didn’t buy quite as many records in 2019 as in previous years. On one hand that makes me feel like I’m missing out on something yet, on the other, I don’t feel like I needed to buy any more! As is often the case the top of the list is skewed towards the start…

2019 Live

The Dream Syndicate2019 turned out to be my busiest ever gig year despite losing half a dozen shows at the end of the year to a combination of work and the lurgy. As ever narrowing the list down to a handful is well nigh impossible but I think 2 probably stood out from the crowd:…