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Universal You

By Roz Davies • Dec 1st, 2011 • Category: jrbig, long players

This is quite harmless nineties Euro-rock, and as such becomes palatable background music.


Mummy Short Arms

By Roz Davies • Nov 8th, 2011 • Category: jrwee, short players

Two tracks from Glasgow’s Mummy Short Arms, the oddly monikered gang of surrealists.


The Moth and the Mirror

By Roz Davies • Oct 16th, 2011 • Category: jrbig, long players

This is a fantastic album. Like an approaching thunder storm over the Kilpatrick Hills, every song holds an intensity, a sense of immediacy and drama, but it doesn’t come across as anything too overbearing


Electric Frog

By Roz Davies • Sep 14th, 2011 • Category: gigs

A rather ominous sky welcomes revellers to the Electric Frog all-dayer down at SWG3, though the puddles forming around our ankles can’t shake the excitement building over the rather delicious live acts preparing to take to the stage.


The Pictish Trail, James Yorkston and Lisa O’Neill

By Roz Davies • Aug 30th, 2011 • Category: gigs, jrgigs

As part of the innovative Unbound series of free, unticketed shows at the Book Festival this year, it is certainly a real treat to see such established musicians for nowt.


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