Museum Lates: Night of the Mummy By Steve Mcgillivray February 24, 2012 It's not every day you get to go an see a band in a museum. Luckily tonight I was getting the chance to see two bands. That's only part of what's on offer though as the National Museum of Scotland is throwing open it's doors to 2,000 people and letting them loose in the newly refurbished museum. As I wander in through the doors I'm pleased to see it's a very mixed crowd. As you may [...]
So here were are once again on another distinctly mediocre morning in one of the most utterly unremarkable months of the calender. I was born in November and at least November is pretty reliably completely shit, whereas October doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. It's not even consistently rubbish enough to hate. So far so fucking splendid. I have been driven away from Facebook today by an over-abundance (i.e. one person) of grown fucking adults talking in fucking babyspeak. "U cud of come 2 [insert name of some shit club or other]." Dear [...]
And so the madness begins. The Edge Festival this year is still looking for something special, beyond Sebadoh and The National, but there is nevertheless an unbelievable shitload of stuff happening in Edinburgh over the course of the next four weeks. Personally, I am going to have much more involvement this year, for two reasons. For starters, last year I spent two weeks of August on holiday in China, and another week up at Haarfest in Fife, and this year I'll be here the whole way through. Secondly, of course, we will be releasing the Best [...]
12 June, 2011 Edinburgh is a beautiful city, but as I make my way to one of it's smaller venues, Cabaret Voltaire , it's not looking so appealing. The word in Scotland for the current weather is dreich. Basically a harsh sounding word that captures cold, wet and windswept quite well. I'm met by a smiling girl and friendly doorman as I enter the venue and my evening immediately takes a turn for the better when I not only get the obligatory stamp on the back of my hand, I also get a snazzy wristband. I feel [...]
12 June, 2011 A selection of photos from Wolf Gang 's show with Bwani Junction and Foreign Office at Cabaret Voltaire. All photos taken by Julia Stryj . More of Julia's work can be found here . Steve McGillivray 's review of the show can be found here .
Yesterday was St Andrews Day. Yesterday i was too busy getting drunk to do this post. Today i'm too hungover to make a serious attempt at one and do it justice so instead i'll just post some random stuff. Some really good Scottish music of all varieties and sounds will do for a start. Some famous ones, some semi famous ones, some lesser known ones..... MP3: Frightened Rabbit - The Loneliness MP3: The Beta [...]
When things don't sell as well as expected all sorts of excuses are offered – the weather, timing, competition, funding, advertising and that conveniently perma-topical phrase "the current financial climate" are usually at the top of the blame list. In the context of Scottish music festivals, history shows that if you build it, they might not come. Connect, Outsider, Live At Loch Lomond, Retrofest, Big In Falkirk, Homecoming Festival, Rock4Life and the Festival of British Youth Orchestras have all sank into the mud in recent years. The simple reality is that punters won't commit to such [...]
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