Como habitual, por cá fica o resumo do que de mais importante se passou na minha página alternativa do Facebook. Mais uma semana recheada de coisas boas e logo a começar com a recordação do tema "Although the Sun Is Shining" do álbum 'Then Play On' dos Fleetwood Mac, seguido de músicas mais recentes, nomeadamente "Wedding Song" dos Yeah Yeah Yeahs e "Broken Record", primeiro single
By Kenny McMurtrie May 02, 2013 Edinburgh's Electric Circus plays host, this Bank Holiday Sunday (May 5th), to the Big Day In event. The full line-up is handily displayed on the image to the left and you can obtain tickets by clicking here . John-Paul Mason and Tallah Brash , the dual brains behind the day's goings on, were good enough to answer a few questions that we put to them:- MG) Is this the [...]
Well, I don't know how many of you were there, but didn't the Meursault Liquid Room show go well on Friday! The place was rammed, gin was consumed in some quantities and even the hangover the next day wasn't all that bad. The sun was out, and it's that glorious time in Edinburgh when the weather is starting to improve, the sun is out and the tourists haven't really turned up yet in any great numbers. Nothing against tourists, of course, just their absence does make the place rather pleasingly peaceful. There are some interesting things happening in [...]
Hello again, and welcome to the column which strives to provide your weekly fix of new music. In fact, new music is what the next four days are all about for me, as I'm fitting a brace of gigs around Record Store Day - and just mentioning those three words gives my wallet a panic attack. It's the first one in which I'll be directly involved - usually I would have to take a 4=four-hour train to get within touching distance of a decent record store, and since I've heard people will start queueing at 6am (!), I'll be sure [...]
Exciting new track from Astari Night. Embedding feature is not available at this moment, so click here to listen on Soundcloud . I wrote earlier about how I love the new single from The Machine Room. I can now share it with you via this Soundcloud link . Bonus points for calling the track "Sweden"! Well, I need to see why I can't embed tracks, so I will cut this post short.
Perfectly balancing the ingredients of nostalgic post-punk as ever, here's another one from The Machine Room . Note the thoughtful lyrics. Please check out their ep "Love From A Distance" here . Regular readers are familiar with my pattern of posting synthpop on Saturdays and more mellow dreampop on Sundays. So, in keeping with that, please enjoy this blissful tune from My Violaine Morning (free download). This should round out this post nicely!
If I had bothered to write this before noon I suppose I could have announced some sort of secret gig by The National at Henry's Cellar Bar or something like that, but apparently three in the afternoon is a bit late for April Fools, even half-hearted ones. Aside from The National not playing, and indeed pretty much everyone not playing ever since every significant promoter in Scotland gave up on Edinburgh three years ago, there are, as always, a few lower key things going on this week which should be of interest to any right-thinking music lover. [...]
Serafina Steer - Machine Room I’m a bit tipsy (at best) and working on a piece about “personal branding” for some of my students. “Interesting,” you say. Think that’s interesting? OK, well you’re a twat. Or a cunt. What’s the fashionable term these days? Anyway, you don’t need to say that’s it’s interesting, or give me any positive affirmation, because it really isn’t interesting. You and I both know it’s just a job. Don't get me wrong, I like you regardless! But this shit that I [...]
EH1 Live - Review When I got asked if I fancied covering this one day event in Edinburgh I really didn't have to think very hard. On the face of it a good line-up of unsigned acts and it was taking place across one day and in five Edinburgh venues I knew well. Easy decision. So, off the nation's capital I go and decide to head for Electric Circus first. The Machine Room are due on and I figure that's as good [...]
The Machine Room - Smalltown Boy [Bronski Beat] | bx . watch the original
So, despite the usual August bollocks and the tragic lack of the Retreat! Festival from our lives this year, it seems there's really rather a lot of fun stuff happening in Edinburgh for those (like myself) who would prefer to hide from the Edinburgh Festival rather than embrace it. Places like the Queen's Hall seem to have taken a slightly surprising, yet very welcome interest in local music recently, so they have what looks like the highlight of the week to me, with the #UNRAVEL show tomorrow. I will be driving Meursault through to Glasgow for their gig [...]
The Machine Room - Bizarre Love Triangle [New Order] | bx . watch the original
I am up in Inverness at GoNorth at the moment, which is an industry conference cum new music festival, so I am here schmoozing and glad-handing and, umm... well, not really. Actually, I am going to gigs and drinking beer in the middle of the day, so it's really neither as glamorous as it sounds, nor as much hard work. On this particular occasion I have a couple of meetings scheduled - informal ones though, don't worry, nothing too serious - and that's about it. Work, schmurk. There is the Bloggers' Showcase tonight of course, which I am [...]
Morning folks, it's Saturday and once again I'm hungover. No surprise there then I guess, I spent last night in the company of some fine individuals at King Tut's catching The Grand Gestures and Behold The Old Bear, A top night was had, but boy am I paying for it today. If I think that I feel bad now, god only knows how sorry I will be feeling for myself on Friday. As next week I will be heading up to Inverness for my third goNorth, Scotland's biggest music industry event/piss up. For the second year running, myself, Song, [...]
Like Sugar favorites The Machine Room has posted another track on Soundcloud. Free download of "Making Babies" . The excellent "Love From A Distance" ep is available on Bandcamp . Making Babies by the machine room The band is on tour for you lucky UK people: Friday, 18 May 2012 Edinburgh, UK Sneaky Pete's - The Machine [...]
I'd be a lot more inclined to be patriotically English if all our national traditions weren't as fucking lame as prancing about the Maypole and nonsense like that. Actually, that's a lie. I'm not English enough to be patriotically English, and patriotism gives me the fucking creeps anyway, in all its guises. Not that this has anything to do with the unavoidable fact that the Maypole is still just a little bit silly, of course. We aren't really getting the Spring weather up here in Scotland, although it's been threatening it here and there. Still, it [...]
"Camino De Soda" by The Machine Room. Didn't know the band really or this song until I saw the video at Listen Before You Buy . Nice choice.
Watch the new video for The Machine Room 's song "Camino de Soda" below, taken from the EP "Love From A Distance" . Connect with The Machine Room – Facebook | Twitter | Last.fm | Website | Bandcamp
Electro-synth shoegazers, The Machine Room arrived on the prolific Edinburgh, Scotland music scene in 2010 as a five-piece made up of Tom Adam, John Bryden, Adie Emanuel, Scott Hitchings, and Ryan Marinello (Adam has since left and Cecilia Stamp has joined). In the same way that New Order weave the bitter into the sweet, The Machine Room expertly craft succinct yet ethereal rhythms. Not afraid of showing off lush bass hooks combined with crystalline guitar lines over persistent arpeggios, they set an ideal backdrop to John Bryden's husky, falsetto vocals. [...]
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