Some upcoming things

And just to prove that things are happening here in this old (but freshly decorated house), here’s a few things I’m going to be involved in in early December: Markee de Saw & Bert Finkle will be playing at the QM Red Ribbon Ball. There should be a fabulous cabaret line-up for that one, and […]

Bitter birds and Glitter flies

Tomorrow’s a bit of a red letter day. After a considerable length of time (in which between us we managed to produce two weddings, a baby, half a house, a cabaret act and three books), wur band, Murnie, has decided to release some new music. Yay, for us. Now, yes, there was supposed to be […]

Setting ones balls in order

I’m a bit of a juggler. At least I attempt to be. I’m always writing something and I’m always doing something with music, usually multiple things. I tell myself that I can keep all of these balls in the air at the same time, but usually I end up concentrating primarily on one and the […]

Tea and the Park

So the weekend was spent at Balado. Pretty much over the lack of sleep and the snottery cold I brought back with me. Almost. Well, at my age what can you expect? Very glad I didn’t do the camping – it was only an hour or so’s drive away, and I had a new car […]

Finkle in June/July

Fans (aw c’mon there have to be some) of Markee de Saw and Bert Finkle have a couple of very choice opportunities of catching up with their weird musical stories over the next few weeks. First up we’re delighted to have been delighted to perform at Itsy’s Kabarett presents: TABU in Edinburgh’s swanky Voodoo Rooms […]

Stag and Dagger 2011

So, Saturday. Stag and Dagger. A shitty day weatherwise, and it was good to see a decent turn out at all the venues I was at. Not that the weather should’ve affected anyone’s enjoyment of the music, but it might have put a dampener on the general mood. Not mine though. I manage to squeeze […]

Looking forward to Stag & Dagger

This weekend sees the return of Stag & Dagger, an inner city multi-venue indie music festival that is dear to my heart. I went last year, although I seem to have completely neglected to blog about it at the time (for the record it was very similar to my experience of Hinterland the year before). […]

Record Store Day 2011 : The Haul

Great day out shuttling between Glasgow’s two great little record shops. It was the now established Record Store Day and people were out in their droves, queuing to get their hands on the exclusive releases, listen to the live acts (Admiral Fallow – just superb!) and snaffle some of the free tea and cakes. Outside […]

Record Store Day 2011

No NAF this Friday because I’m saving my pennies for Record Store Day tomorrow. For those that don’t know about it, Record Store Day is a chance celebrate your local indie record shops. The little places who sell new and second hand music at proper reasonable prices, that stock the really cool stuff you can’t […]

NAF : KASSIDY / Hope St

One of the problems with coming to a new album with expectations is that sometimes they are confounded. That sounds like a pretty negative start, but it’s not meant to be. I first came across Kassidy via their Rubbergum Ep (the first in a series of three, although I missed the subsequent ones). I really […]