Sights and Sounds

Looking forward to this weekend’s Sounds Film Festival. Especially the Woody Guthrie biopic, Bound For Glory, and the opening night’s Ballads Of The Book film which will be followed by live music, including the most excellent Zoey van Goey.

If there’s a god he’s laughing at us (and our football team)

…or why I don’t read the music press. In this totally internetted up world in which we live in (sic), it’s so much easier to find new music to listen to, and yet can be so much harder to find stuff that you’re genuinely going to like. Let’s face it, with all the band myspaces […]

That there is a doorway to a world of enchantment

Last night. Oh, last night. The last, and greatest, of the birthday gifts. Leaving blazing Glasgow on the east-bound bus we arrived in a fog-bound Edinburgh that was doing its best to mimic Holmsian London. A real pea-soupah that was chill and damp, and rotten and otherwordly. All of which was appropriate because we were […]

Delia Dances

We always knew Delia Derbyshire was ahead of her time, but presaging 21st C dance music by over 30 years is quite some going. Good on her!

Time for Tromolo

One of my favourite things to do over the last few years, of a spare evening, say, is amble down for a few hours of the unexpected and the entertaining at Club Tromolo. Tromolo’s pretty much a unique combination of music, performance and comedy. Many’s the night I have [almost] LITERALLY weed myself at the […]

End of The Month

A word in passing about a great Glasgow institution. Last night’s End Of The Month Club was just full of good things. For those of you new to this blog, EOTMC is a monthly club night in the 13th Note that celebrates those that have left us during the month via the medium of electro […]

Christmassy

All of a sudden. Because of these guys. And this guy too.

Recommendations

Saturday night was spent in the most marvelous celebration of the music of Mr Joe Kane. A grand night out, featuring the magic of Kevin Price, the glamorous fun of Miss Leggy Pee and the rambunctious music of The Plimptons all leading up to a cracking performance by Joe’s band, Idiots Against Time, showcasing the […]

Injuns, Honest

One of the joys of being into music and living in a town like Glasgow is that it’s perfectly possible to have a new favourite band on almost a weekly basis. For me, my New Favourite Bands Of The Week have recently included: The Yellow Bentines (at Maggie May’s) The Decemberists (played on Pulse FM […]

Recommendations (2)

“Strange Sensation” by Maxi Geil! and Playcolt Last Tuesday saw the return of Club Tromolo at the Classic Grand, hosted as usual by A Band Called Quinn, and featuring the (un)usual selection of off-beat variety acts as well as guest sets by a couple of international acts: Etno-Klassic from Kosovo and New York’s own Maxi […]