GoldFlakePaint One of my favourite non-Scottish blogs, GoldFlakePaint celebrated their second birthday last week. To mark the occasion they have compiled a cracking wee compilation album featuring some of their favourite artists. Released on limited edition CD and as a free download, the compilation features tracks from some cracking artists, including a few Scottish acts such as PAWS, Sparrow & The Workshop and Loch Awe. You can download the album for free via Bandcamp , also while you're at it check out GoldFlakePaint's site as it comes highly recommended. <a href=" http://goldflakepaint.bandcamp .com/album/from-the-outside-lo oking-in">From The [...]
Contributed by Nathan Hetherington "Father Look" is a delicately foreboding album track lifted from Sparrow and the Workshop's 2011 release, Spitting Daggers . The video features the trio's obliging parents in what appears to be the behavioural attributes of a mid life crisis. Given the lyrical content I say fair play, especially when set to this blend folk-rock topped with Jill O'Sullivan's alluring and plangent vocals. Sparrow [...]
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 [...]
I am not doing predictions, mostly because I can't. I have no idea what is going to be big this year and what isn't, and even if I think a band is going to release something amazing that probably doesn't matter, because bands I love rarely ever get all that famous anyway. But in any case, and in no particular order, here are some things I liked about last year, and some things I didn't. Some stuff I'd like to see more of and some things I am looking forward to, and some things I am not. "Something [...]
My top 3 albums of 2011 come as a bit of a personal surprise. It seems that I've turned from 'city slicker' whose lullaby is a police siren to bucolic gal next door who feels nostalgic at the sound of a country drawl and a banjo. 3. Sparrow and the Workshop - Spitting Daggers If you want folk and angst on the same platter then go no further than Sparrow and the Workshop's stunning second album. A collection that offers joyful peaks and moody troughs plus a sack load [...]
Elke dag t/m 31-12-2011 een album uit de lijst met favorieten uit 2011, persoonlijk gekozen door het ASP opperhoofd. Uiteraard in de correcte volgorde.
What with all of the excitement of yesterdays BAMS post, I forgot I hadn't scheuled this post to go up. Better late than never eh?! This weeks chosen albums of the year come from Adam Stafford, A Band Called Quinn, St. Deluxe, Mondegreen, The Son(s), Bear Bones and Sparrow & The Workshop... Micachu & The Shapes - Chopped & Skrewed chosen by Adam Stafford Most of the albums that I've admired in 2011 have come [...]
MORE LISTS! Yes, list season continues, as I fight with borderline obsessive compulsive disorder and an overwhelming need to rank things using a system that makes no real sense and changes every ten or fifteen minutes. Two disclaimers best just means my favourite, you are allowed to disagree without either of us being wrong. I've not heard every blooming album released this year. Onward then, to the first batch of my twenty favourite albums of the year. You can find a bunch of other albums I liked that didn't quite [...]
MORE LISTS! Yes, list season continues, as I fight with borderline obsessive compulsive disorder and an overwhelming need to rank things using a system that makes no real sense and changes every ten or fifteen minutes. Two disclaimers best just means my favourite, you are allowed to disagree without either of us being wrong. I've not heard every blooming album released this year. Onward then, to the first batch of my twenty favourite albums of the year. You can find a bunch of other albums I liked that didn't quite [...]
It's the moment you've really not been waiting for, yes folks, it's time for me to share with you all my favourite albums of the past twelve months. I fully appreciate that what I say doesn't really matter all that much and nor should it, but hey indulge me a little. This is now the fourth year that I have found myself compiling these lists. Back in 2008 and 2009 I came up with a Top 50 for each year which just seems insane to me these days. This year I have stuck with a top ten, mainly because I [...]
Firstly, a big, big thank you to everyone who came out to see Withered Hand, Samantha Crain and Mike MacFarlane (who now goes by the name of Flash Jr.) last night. It was bloody amazing. I want to start a campaign to get more big bands to Henry's to play a wee sweatbox gig with the crowd standing mere inches away from them. Anyway, due to Thanksgiving dinner and parental visitation reasons, I didn't get the chance to record the podcast this weekend, so I shall do it this afternoon, once I have posted this. And [...]
Haunting, echoing sonic rock with a The Sonic Youth/The Cardigans kick and, the coup de grace of a Blondie in chill out mode edge to the vocals is the chosen approach, 'Faded Glory'. Jill Sullivan's vocal display is one of variety and her build up to the lofty delivery of the poetic part of the lyrics, lends the song some vocal mystique to go with the murky accompaniment. This expansive, driving atmospheric rock foray is one of the more compelling, meaningful and well built numbers from the hit and miss 'Spitting Daggers' album. It's a song that takes [...]
Lovely vid of S&tW performing "Old Habbits" in the Elba Studios Tracking Room in sunny Glasgow. Click through for Euro tour dates! 11 Oct FRANKFURT Das Bett 12 Oct SCHAFFHAUSEN Tap Tab 13 Oct BASEL Kaserne 16 Oct VIENNA WUK w/Das Fieber 17 Oct DRESDEN Groovestation 18 Oct OBERHAUSEN [...]
Via Artrocker's New Blood online, a free download of Sparrow and the Workshop's "You Don't Trust Anyone" from latest LP Spitting Daggers. Sparrow and the Workshop - You Don't Trust Anyone by ArtrockerTV Obviously Spitting Daggers has been a bit of a fave around chez music slut recently, but New Blood online also has plenty [...]
the fantastic weekend she almost over. and the SPARROW AND THE WORKSHOP wave their hands bout via their new FADED GLORY video. wotyougot
After going Against the Grain, Sparrow and the Workshop are back with another video, this time for the upcoming next single from LP Spitting Daggers. This time the boys and girls (and sparrows) are off down th'farm for some fisticuffs (well, down th'allotment, anyway). There's some seriously threatening fork-waving going on in this video, right [...]
Afgelopen week lag er weer eens een cd'tje op de ASP deurmat. Van een voor mij onbekend bandje. Dat maakt het meteen dubbel zo leuk. Want verdorie, op die manier stuit je ineens vanuit het [...]
Ah, Field Day. A strange mixture: it rained, and then was boiling. The beers were crazily expensive, but the food relatively affordable in comparison. And the music sounded awful on some stages and brilliant on others; while some acts looked like they wanted to be anywhere but Victoria Park, others looked happy as heaven. Zola Jesus took the honours for me, but it was a close-run thing. Anyway, bruised and abused, here's a weary edition of Monday Music: Acid Glasses - My Pale Garden Hey man, take it easy, drink some of this.. [...]
'Against the Grain' is latest video from the Glasgow-domiciled Sparrow & The Workshop, taken from the most recent LP Spitting Daggers. There's a heck of a lot to live up to after the superb 'Black to Red', but this piece by Glasgow School of Art student Jules Gay is certainly bound to do the trick...
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