This is just a brief list of some stuff I'm looking forward to in the Edinburgh music scene over the coming year. I don't intend to be parochial about this, or too narrow, but I am not as close to the precise ins and outs of what's happening in the rest of the country so there's a limit to what I can meaningfully say about what's going on there. It's not meant to be exhaustive either, just some thoughts pottering about at the front of my mind. New Labels Last year saw the first steps made [...]
This is the beginning of what Milo has already pointed out is going to be a monumental period of carousing. Last week was very, very quiet in terms of gigs, but if you paid any attention to that then the sense of security into which you might have been lulled would very much have been a false one. Because it all kicks off in earnest this week, and if anything next could be even heavier. Livers of Edinburgh beware! From my own perspective I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, in the [...]
Given how mental it looks like December is going to be for gigs, the last week of November looks as thin as I wish I still was. There are a couple of things knocking around though, so bear with me. On the subject of touring, incidentally, it's really not a cheap undertaking so as an alternative Candy Claws - who are on my friend Kevin's label, Indiecater Records - are doing a virtual tour. This means that each day for a couple of weeks a new blog in a new place will host one [...]
Having made such an almighty pig's ear of last week's listings, I find myself wondering if the gigmosphere really is as thin as it looks this week, or whether I've just managed to make another spectacular arse of spotting the good 'uns again. There's something a little different happening, actually, because Joey Comeau and the Loose Teeth Press are going to be at the Bowery as part of their reading tour tonight, which sounds rather interesting. Also, the Charity Baw at the Roxy on Saturday looks like a bit of a spectacular, [...]
After attending a birthday party which involved the scarfing of five pig's heads yesterday I still don't feel capable of eating anything. I may have to fast for the next few days before that little lot gets digested, in fact. Fucking hell that was a meal and a half. There will be no giggenfun for me this week, unfortunately, despite a couple of natty lineups on the horizon. The label is going to require an absolutel shitload of admin work this week and if I go out gallvanting there is no way I am going [...]
Well this is a bit of a big week for Song, by Toad Records. Apart from the fact that the Loch Lomond/Builders & the Butchers split 123 is now officially available to buy, we also have the Meursault single launch on Saturday, with three of my favourite bands. We're releasing four A-sides on two 73 singles, on clear vinyl: new recordings of William Henry Miller Parts One and Two are going back to back with A Few Kind Words and the Dirt & the Roots from Pissing on Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues. Officially, neither single is being released until the first [...]
It's a rather varied week of gigging this week, with Richard Hawley at the Queen's Hall at one end of the spectrum and the Japanese War Effort at the Traverse Bar tonight at the other. There are a few side-notes worth mentioning as well - like the vanishing Whispertown 2000 gig at Sneaky's on Saturday which I would have liked to go to, but which I assume was cancelled and the appearance, for free, of 4AD's Big Pink at Sick Note , late at Cabaret Voltaire on Thursday. I think I can manage maybe a couple of [...]
Song, by Toad
I’ll Just Leave This Here #161
BAND OF HORSES – The Funeral (Sound Remedy Remix)
Angger Dimas – Ribon Dooh (Preview)
Video: Dreamers - "Appaloosa"
