Machines In Heaven
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The Scottish music scene is in rude health these days and nowhere is this more apparent than in the all-conquering success of Chvrches. more… “Machines In Heaven”
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Casual Sex / Collar Up / Naked
Edinburgh Electric Circus
Friday February 28th
It’s cold and crisp in the Scottish capital with winter stubbornly dragging on as the Electric Circus fills up for an evening with Casual Sex more… “Casual Sex / Collar Up / Naked”
Micah P Hinson and the Nothing
Micah P Hinson and The Nothing
Talitres
Near the end of the Coen Brothers’ new film ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’, the titular Davis cruelly heckles the middle-aged Arkansas musician more… “Micah P Hinson and the Nothing”
The Boxer Rebellion
Glasgow SWG3
Thursday 13th february
On the eve of Saint Valentine’s Day it’s bitterly cold and more than a little miserable in Glasgow. more… “The Boxer Rebellion”
The Mirror Trap
Stay Young
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Listening to ‘Stay Young’, the second album from Dundee’s The Mirror Trap, it’s hard not to be impressed by their passion. more… “The Mirror Trap”
The Mirror Trap
The New Forgotten Generation
Words: David P Scott
The Mirror Trap describe themselves as ‘bound together by a love of music, ideas and romanticism’. more… “The Mirror Trap”
Big Day In
Edinburgh Electric Circus
Sunday 5th May
Edinburgh’s favourite indie music venue opened up on a Sunday afternoon in May – predating the city’s annual arts explosion by a couple of months for a mini-festival of its own. more… “Big Day In”
The Little Kicks / Book Group / King Eider
Edinburgh Wee Red Bar
Friday October 4th
The Wee Red Bar is filling up fast as King Eider start playing before the soundman has had a chance to turn off the background music, such is their enthusiasm.
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Songs are dynamic and bounce along at a fair pace, driven on by some great fingerpicking, a tight rhythm section and joyful bursts of fiddle, cello and three part harmonies. It is infectious stuff that has everyone grinning ear to ear and stamping their feet in time.
As Book Group take the floor, frontman Graeme Anderson announces they are going to “bring something different to the party” before apologising in advance for any sound problems, the band having not had time to sound check. He needn’t have worried; they sound fantastic as they run through a set which culminates in the soaring ‘Victory Lap’, a song that sees Graeme singing its refrain “don’t you ever change” through a megaphone and running into crowd to take its uplifting message to the people standing at the back.
The Little Kicks are in town this evening to launch their third album ‘Put Your Love In Front Of Me’. The Wee Red Bar is packed, no mean feat given they’re from Aberdeen as singer Steven Milne notes. Playing the album from start to finish the band, completed by guitarist Andrew Corse, bassist Lewis Porter and Scott Kelman on drums, are on form and sound huge. Opener ‘Better Things’ and lead single ‘Girl’ get the audience moving with their pop hooks and deft rhythms. Later tracks like the ‘Heartbreak’ trilogy slow things down a little but you’re never far away from a melody, beat or bass line that’ll make the urge to dance almost impossible to ignore. By the end everyone has a smile on their face, a spring in their step and is absolutely soaked in sweat.
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Fat Goth / United Fruit / Vasquez / Hey Enemy
Human Is Not Alone @ Edinburgh Electric circus
Thursday September 19th
Four bands got together for this highly successful fundraiser for Marie Curie. more… “Fat Goth / United Fruit / Vasquez / Hey Enemy”
Culann
Home by the sea
interview by David P Scott
On the coast of the Firth of Clyde sits the Ayrshire town of Irvine. A New Town with a long history, Robert Burns lived there for a time, it’s the largest settlement in North Ayrshire more… “Culann”