Alright, I'm still getting caught up on a week's worth of music. Here are some newer, older, and alternate versions of songs I am listing to this Monday-est of morns. Free mp3: Pickwick - Blackout (A Capella at UW) Free mp3: Panda Su - I Begin Free mp3: Caveman - Thankful Free [...]
Download : Caveman - "Thankful" New York's Caveman start of this weeks mix with "Thankful" an ideal mix of Brooklyn texture and that chilled out vibe all of us are looking for as the year wears down towards its close. These guys remind me of what Bishop Allen (one of my all-time favorites) could potentially [...]
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 [...]
Panda Su It feels like ages since we've heard anything new from the awesome Panda Su, her last EP, 'Sticks & Bricks' was a particular favourite round these parts, and she is now set to release her follow-up EP 'I Begin' in late April. She kicks off a UK tour tonight in Edinburgh at Sneaky Pete's, so if you're in that neck of the woods then get yourself down, oh and make sure you get down early as I Build Collapsible Mountains is supporting. As a prelude to what you can expect from her new EP she's posted [...]
This is one of those weeks where there could be two of you and you'd still probably not quite manage to get to all the decent gigs in the city this week. Personally I am going to try and keep it a bit calm, but I have my doubts as to whether or not I am likely to succeed. Mrs. Toad, no doubt, will be wildly impressed. I had fun down in London last week, incidentally. As I mentioned, I did a quick interview with Tom Robinson for BBC 6Music while I was there and, in typical fashion, [...]
So, whilst the first half of 2010 was relatively quiet on the live music front, August was absolute mayhem. And as the dust settles on another festival period, and we try to assess the physical and financial damage in a calm and orderly fashion, it doesn't look like things are slowing down on the gig radar. Which I'm rather pleased about. Monday 6 th September 2010: Miaoux Miaoux and Wounded Knee at Electric Circus . Bart's House . Sneaky [...]
Choosing which music festivals to go to has always been a decision I've taken based on the quality of the headliners. If you're going to part with three figures on a weekend of mud-dodging, it makes sense to put it towards seeing bands who don't visit your hometown every other week. However, it recently occurred to me that I probably wouldn't have trekked to this year's T in the Park if Admiral Fallow, Washington Irving and The Seventeenth Century weren't on the bill - and all three played several hours before the big-name attractions. When I [...]
[ The wonderful Jenny Soep returns this week with more of her spellbinding illustrations, and one or two interesting matters to raise. This post was originally pencilled in for last week, hence some of the dates needing correcting, and Jenny apologises and explains further below. Even though Jenny did in fact get the article to me on the Sunday as promised; in the end, unfortunately, it arrived a little too late to be published: my inbox records the email's arrival at 11:58pm! ] Hello there. A Sunday Supplement, written on [...]
Suzanne Shaw is one courageous cookie. Whenever the St Andrews musician plays a gig, she morphs into PANDA SU , heart-crushing singer extraordinaire decorated chin to forehead in black and white paint to cover up the tear stains. Naming your music output after a creature of the wild may seem like a very modern trend, but it's nothing new. The biggest band the world has ever seen was named after a garden inset after all. But Panda Su is not like the rest. [...]
I can be pretty stubborn some times, quite often it is to my detriment, no matter how much something is staring me in the face I'll ignore it or even dismiss things off hand. Last April I went to my first ever Homegame, the festival run by Fence Records. I remember seeing the name Panda Su and immediately dismissing the name. Even after continually seeing her badges all over the place and thinking that they looked quite cool and quirky, I still couldn't be bothered to find out more. Then the wonderful folk over at Glasgow Podcart started [...]
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 [...]
First up, if you fancy a night on the tiles this Friday (the 27th), then why not head along to Pin Up Nights 6th Birthday Party at The Flying Duck. Where you can catch The Dirty Cuts , We're Only Afraid Of NYC , Mitchell Museum (really liking these guys) and Always, Me, Me, Me . With the added bonus of a special birthday edition fanzine and badge for the first 100 to arrive, plus a birthday party wouldn't be the same without cake (and er free toast?!). For further details [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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