rescuing musical virtue in distress.
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 →
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 →