rescuing musical virtue in distress.
The term alternative, when applied to music at least, seems to have a very predictable meaning these days. Which is ironic. Hear it, and you think of leather-jacketed, skinny-jeaned indie kids with a complicated hair and all the right designer labels playing music just left of mainstream. Hardly an alternative at all. This latest single... Continue Reading →
I've been a bit hit and miss with a weekly playlist of late, so this one will represent about 3 weeks worth of music. Hence the strange take on the title. Still, the sun's out, it's a bank holiday, so here's the perfect soundtrack to play whilst having a few beers in the garden. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1j6Uwg23FYzljszmSFxlNO?si=44003eea81aa4ce0
Tae The Poets is a cracking single that marries the worlds of music, literature and the demon drink, something which is never far away from either world. Taken from the album The Birthday Poems which offers a fictionalized account of the romance between Scottish writers Stella Cartwright and George Mackay Brown and their friendship with... Continue Reading →