rescuing musical virtue in distress.
Here we go again. A sample of the aural delights which have swirled around the office this week. As always please check out the artists, explore further and even buy yourself some new music. Ensure that when live music restarts there are still some great grassroots bands to fill those bookings. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6ONbsVYcQcLp33pKXt6FR8?si=dq71Mb9uQEGogNQcjcRJCw
Live albums are usually targeted at existing fans of a band or artist, its a memento of a certain tour or time and a chance to hear a different version of the ones you loved on the recorded albums. The fact that the band here is a relatively obscure 90’s band from Scotland, will mean... Continue Reading →
After a steep learning curve in the ways of modern journalist page layouts - I'm a bear of very little brains when it comes to such things - those awfully nice people at The Big Takeover have allowed me to contribute to their cool magazine. So from time to time I will be posting the... Continue Reading →
One of Scotland's most celebrated bands, Goodbye Mr MacKenzie are reissuing their seminal album 'Good Deeds and Dirty Rags' on vinyl and CD November 1. This long-play has been remastered for both formats. The CD version will include 3 additional tracks from those early years, not previously included on the original edition. The band are also... Continue Reading →
Obviously it’s an age thing but so many of my favourite albums seem to be reaching their thirty year anniversary and I'm not sure how I feel about it. It’s a bitter sweet feeling, a double sided coin of “good god, is it really that long ago?” and a sort of smug self-satisfaction of “I... Continue Reading →
I was having a long overdue catch up with friend, someone who I had spent a lot of time exploring music's learning curve with and the only time that the old vinyl collection gets an outing these days and we noticed something remarkable. Out of curiosity I checked the dates of the albums we had... Continue Reading →
Mainly because we have recently featured The Filthy Tongues (all three of whom can be found in this video) I thought I'd drop this little beauty onto the site. Sitting somewhere between rock and pop, they wrote great and fairly non-conformist songs but this, for me, was their finest and most accessible moment. Keen eyed... Continue Reading →
Fans of music being made North of the border in Scotland will probably be aware of the ripples that rock trio The Filthy Tongues are making, they’ve been getting radio play on BBC Scotland and BBC6 Music and are looking at bidding 2018 a fond farewell with the release of the video for their new... Continue Reading →