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Camera Obscura

By Laura Barbour • Feb 6th, 2008 • Category: gigs

“I dearly like the west…” croons Camera Obscura’s Tracyanne Campbell. The diminutive frontwoman seems genuinely pleased to be back on stage at Glasgow’s ABC, the band’s first Scottish date since last summer.



Kid Carpet

By Laura Barbour • Oct 23rd, 2007 • Category: gigs

Kid Carpet is possibly the perfect example of, well, quite a few things. On the one hand he is a born entertainer possessing an inimitable imagination.



Kid Carpet – interview

By Laura Barbour • Oct 23rd, 2007 • Category: features

Kid Carpet – the UK’s top purveyor of Fisher Price electronica – has just completed a Scottish mini-tourin conjunction with is this music? and those nice people at the Greenside Hotel in Leslie. Which is where Laura Barbour met the Kid, to discuss his his sound, his image, and of course, his plans for a [...]



Franz Ferdinand

By Laura Barbour • Sep 19th, 2007 • Category: gigs

Begrudgingly esteemed by many a musical anorak as one of the “better” guitar bands of recent years, Franz Ferdinand are apparently amidst a departure from said style in favour of a more experimental sound.