Edwyn Collins Edwyn's collaboration with The Drums is available to download for free on his homepage . Kowalskiy Our blogger mate posted up his 10th Free Monthly 5-track Scottish EP this week, this months EP features Bottle of Evil, The Last of Barrett's Privateers, Jump: Press A, Loch Awe and Pooch. You can find find out more details here . Johnny Reb Having spent much of last year out in Portugal recording with Morrissey's guitarist Boz Boorer, Johnny Reb have made all of the [...]
A while back, I was passed a batch of demos from Glasgow-based band Johnny Reb. The demos were impressive enough that I gave them a shout out here, and posted a couple of the songs. Since then, the band have hit the studio, and today they are releasing their first album, The Portugal Years . Oh, and it's free. In order to hype the album a bit, I asked one of the guys from the band if he'd be willing to answer a few quick [...]
January 2011 was a strange month. No need to get personal with you guys, but it was. I've been in a different state of mind of late, and maybe this playlist reflects my mood better than I can put into words. This is the stuff that got me through the last month. You could say that these are my favorite songs of January 2011, but that's not really what this is about. This is a unique collection of songs that strangely works in my mind. I hope it works for you too. I put it together in a [...]
These things never really seem to last so I guess I better say something nice about it while I can: it's really quite a pleasant morning here in Edinburgh today. Presumably by the time I hit 'Publish' all that will have changed and we'll be back to the shitty old January we're all so very familiar with around these parts. Still, at least the old live music machine is coughing and spluttering its way back to life. Just wait until the second week in February though, because judging from my calendar that's when it really does kick off [...]
I'm a sucker for great British guitar rock. Who can deny the greatness of acts like Arctic Monkeys and The Libertines? Not I. So when I received some music from Glasgow based rockers Johnny Reb , I had a good feeling they would be right up my ally musically. Turns out I was right. It's hard to deny their resemblance to The Libertines. You can hear it in the twang of the guitars and the vocals. This band spent some time in Portugal recording new songs with Boz Boorer (Morrissey's guitarist), and "Brown Paper Bag" was one [...]
Johnny Reb - Crumbs I wanted to give this song to George to work on, being such a massive fan of The Libertines / The View and the rest of the Landan Tan ramshackle brigade. But now we've got the easy comparisons out of the way it's easier to enjoy the track, The constantly dancing lead guitar gives does give a nod to Carl Barat but also has edges of energy and [...]
I spent this week's podcast - well the post anyway, not the podcast itself - apologising for taking a bit too long this year to crank my brain into action in 2011, but it looks like the Edinburgh gig machine is having much the same problem. There's a battle of the bands type thing at Maggie's Chambers on Saturday 15th, but that's really all I could find. Bands playing at this include Supermarionation , Steel Rose , Fireproof Match , Deco Arcade and Augustalia . If you're in Glasgow there [...]
Johnny Reb From: Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom Johnny Reb are a gang of reprobates (or maybe rebrobrates!) from Glasgow. They are relatively modest reprobates introducing themselves to the Devil via an email that simply said 'We're Johnny Reb & we're distinctly average'. Clearly a band in desperate need of the help of a PR company or maybe a self confidence counsellor. For a good twelve years these modest Glaswegian reprobates [...]
In the new year Song, by Toad will be putting on more live shows. In many ways this is in reaction to our friends Bart and Euan seeming to drop out of regular promotion, and the closure of far too many good venues in Edinburgh over the latter half of 2010. So, after Euan spoke so consistently well of Colvin at the Wee Red Bar, I have had a word, and we have booked Saturday nights in January and February for Toad nights. I think I am going to call them the Ides of Toad, simply because I [...]
Would you care to introduce yourself? When we last checked we were Johnny Reb; the necessary continuation from the Close Lobsters. We somehow just recorded with the mythical Boz Boorer of Morrissey fame in Portugal. Was ok, like. How would you describe the music you make? It's quite urgent & reasonably well informed. Thus elevating it somewhat.. (though it still smells like a wet dog) How [...]
As much as I can like Frightened Rabbit, I am not sure their legacy was particularly good for Glasgow bands. The number of pale imitations I have heard in the last couple of years has been rather disheartening, in much the same way that far too many London bands seem to still be trying to [...]
As much as I can like Frightened Rabbit, I am not sure their legacy was particularly good for Glasgow bands. The number of pale imitations I have heard in the last couple of years has been rather disheartening, in much the same way that far too many London bands seem to still be trying to be the Libertines, and it got to the point where I just wasn't listening to much guitar music. Then, down South at least, lo-fi garage stuff started to appear, mixing punk and surf and even a bit of doo-wop occasionally, and the spell [...]
Cotes du Rhone is our default red wine of choice in this house, and after yesterday's birthday celebrations being cut rather short due to my feeling shitty, we are having a quiet evening in with a couple of bottles of red wine, a bacony, beany stew and we are going to light the fire for the first time this Winter as well. There is nothing remotely related to that on this podcast of course, but then these titles have become increasingly unrelated to the actual podcasts themselves recently so I doubt that'll surprise anyone. In fact, [...]
Peenko
deadbilly's steaming pile of vinyl
We All Want Someone To Shout For
Song, by Toad
A Pocket Full Of Seeds
The Devil Has The Best Tuna
Dear Scotland
I’ll Just Leave This Here #161
BAND OF HORSES – The Funeral (Sound Remedy Remix)
K-Holes - "Frozen Stiff"
Angger Dimas – Ribon Dooh (Preview)
