This was a bit of an impromptu excursion, I have to confess, and when I realised I'd forgotten my bank card and turned up at Henry's with no more than a fiver and a handful of coins in my pocket it looked like just a little more planning might have been advisable. But it turned out to be a significant enough handful of coins to pay for a couple of pints, in the end, so disappointment was averted. The gig itself was a Halloween night presented by the relatively new Edinburgh promoter John Truckasaurus, who we [...]
This was a bit of an impromptu excursion, I have to confess, and when I realised I'd forgotten my bank card and turned up at Henry's with no more than a fiver and a handful of coins in my pocket it looked like just a little more planning might have been advisable. But it turned out to be a significant enough handful of coins to pay for a couple of pints, in the end, so disappointment was averted. The gig itself was a Halloween night presented by the relatively new Edinburgh promoter John Truckasaurus, who we [...]
So, this week ends with a massive extravaganza of Toadliness, but it does look like it'll be relatively quiet along the way as there doesn't seem to be that much else around until the weekend. Which is actually alright, sort of, because it gives me a chance to get my shit together in advance of a very busy weekend indeed. Quite how we're going to sort the logistics of getting half the bands in Edinburgh to and from Anstruther on Sunday I don't know, but I am sure we'll manage somehow. Anyhow, in the meantime there [...]
Aug 7, 2009, 12:35am
100b
Thanks to the crispy, crispy, credit crunch, I've had to drastically change the way I buy music. I - and I think it's no different for my fellow 100b chums - pick and choose and whittle down, and I mean waaay down, the list of albums. So the ones I select for the Merry Month are the best ones I've heard, but aren't necessarily the best of what came out. On the other hand, singles have become really important to me these days. OK, so first up my pick for best album: [...]
I've made the mistake of over-excitment before, so I tend only to draw tentative conclusions from a release as short as three songs, good or bad. In this case I am helped by a degree of ambivalence towards the last track, which means that although I am really impressed by this band, I feel some inner restraint against getting carried away just yet. Regular readers of this site will be pretty familiar with this kind of music already: growly indie-pop with slightly off-beat, changeable rhythms and discordant boy-girl harmonies. It's a style I love, but ultimately the success [...]
Hearts!Attack is Alexis, Darren and Sam, and if their myspace-bio is believable (which I for some reason doubt, wonder why?), we are dealing with some great personalities here... According to this bio, Alexis used to be the best rapper alive, Darren left his Norwegian death metal band after they won Eurovision and Sam has a past as a member of the highly underrated late 90s boy band "BoysRFun"... What I KNOW is true, is that they have made a 3 track ep, and that they have done everything themselves "using some acrylic paint and a [...]
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