Here For The Sex Appeal – Spare Snare live in Dundee

Spare Snare / Scottish Fault Lines / Concept Car – Beat Generator Live, Dundee – Saturday 20th May 2023 The great gigs keep coming. After April’s Dutch adventure and two brilliant, smaller scale shows (Withered Hand and Broken Chanter) back home, Saturday’s show saw Spare Snare return to Dundee on the back of seven dates…

Youse Have Form Through Here – Broken Chanter live

Broken Chanter / Into The Pines – The Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh – Saturday 6th May 2023 I’ll confess I was a bit blasé before this show, which was after all our sixth opportunity to see the full band Broken Chanter since the release of the superb ‘Catastrophe Hits’. So it was a bit unexpected…

Faster In Real Life – Withered Hand live

Withered Hand / Kathryn Williams – The Liquid Room, Edinburgh – Friday 28 April 2023 After our trip to the Netherlands, we were back on more familiar ground for the recent Withered Hand album launch at the Liquid Room. After an enjoyable but short opening set from Kathryn Williams, it was time for the main…

Great Choice – Yo La Tengo live in Amsterdam

Yo La Tengo – Grote Zaal, Paradiso, Amsterdam – Tuesday 18 April 2023 If this blog has often been an exercise in catching up with bands I should already like, then no band illustrates that better than Yo La Tengo. I first became aware of them on the Homestead ‘Human Music’ compilation as far back…

As Long As The River Flows – dEUS live in Utrecht

“The band surely realise that if they play that ending any faster then they would be in danger of spinning the world off its axis”

Something Could Go Wrong – The Filthy Tongues live

The Filthy Tongues – The Tolbooth, Stirling – Thursday 23rd March 2023 This one didn’t work out as planned. Halfway through the Filthy Tongues’ set I got some alarming news about a possible family emergency* and it’s fair to say that thinking about what to write about the show wasn’t high on my priorities. However,…