Puts it in the category for the ‘main’ feature on the front. The most recently posted one is the one that will show
Colin MacLeod, aka The Boy Who Trapped The Sun, has come a long way since his days of playing in punk and metal bands around his native Isle of Lewis. more… “The Boy Who Trapped The Sun”
As the Vaselines reconvene with their ridiculously long-awaited second album ‘Sex With an X’ (20 years in the making); rekindling their preoccupations with sex and religion more… “The Vaselines”
When I go to meet Kid Canaveral, all we have agreed is a time and a place, a pub in Edinburgh’s Stockbridge district. They’re going to grab tea before heading off to a rehearsal and in the intervening time we’ve arranged a chat. more… “Kid Canaveral”
It’s true that the music scene in Scotland is consistently expanding with great talent everyday; however, this next upcoming energetic pop band have been one of the most exceptional to catch my eye. more… “Beautiful By Design”
It’s the hottest day for a long while on a Thursday afternoon in Edinburgh and I’m making my way to Sneaky Pete’s to catch the band for 20mins before their sound check. Sneaky Pete’s shutter is half way down and I have to duck as I venture into the darkened venue. more… “Peggy Sue”
In a new series, we introduce you to some of the bands you really have to hear. And in a cunning (though some might say lazy) innovation that harks back to the ‘Up and Coming’ section from the paper itm?, the bands introduce themselves in their own words.
First up, Edinburgh-based electronic sound-wranglers, Night Noise Team. more… “Night Noise Team”
Since their inception in 2007 in deepest, darkest Livingston, Super Adventure Club have gathered a cult-following, thanks to their pleasingly wayward tunes and the outlandish onstage antics of their horse-headed chum Johny B. more… “Super Adventure Club”
1979 and 2010 actually seem to have a fair bit in common, thirty or so years apart as they may be. A Labour government struggling to run the country -and as with then, the scary as hell prospect that there could be a Tory Government making it even worse, just around the corner. more… “Viv Albertine”
With third album This Light And On This Evening regarded as a significant step forward for the band following the huge successes of debut The Back Room and An End Has A Start, the Birmingham four piece have gone through some personal changes as well more… “Editors”
If Wings were “the band the Beatles could have been” then, in an admittedly different universe, The Unwinding Hours have a similar legacy to live up to and, as necessary, ignore, play down or obliterate. more… “The Unwinding Hours”