By Cat Schaupp April 18, 2013 Vox Box is the new kid on the block in Edinburgh's record store scene, having only opened in May 2011. Nestled in the quirky treasure trove that is St. Stephen's Street in the city's Stockbridge district, they'll be celebrating Record Store Day 2013 in style with a 9.30am opening time that's kind to those who can't quite get out of bed on Saturdays, and a great line up of live music to keep the punters entertained. Muso's [...]
This week is, of course, the week of Record Store Day where we hopefully remember that record shops are nice places to spend time and money and resolve to go there more often, rather than just fight for the exclusive scraps scattered like breadcrumbs for pigeons. Understandably, most of the gig action this week is focussed on that very event, and naturally I am going to tell you that *cough cough* our stuff is by far the most awesome. It is though. We have the Beer vs. Records launch at Summerhall on [...]
It took me a while, I confess, to properly appreciate Wounded Knee 's live show. Drew Wright has been playing in Edinburgh under that name for a good while now, but the first few times I saw him he performed a slightly less accessible set based around layers of looped vocals. It wasn't bad at all, but it wasn't easy either, so I have to confess my attention drifted a little, despite the recommendations from many of my friends. Last year I learned the error of my ways, finally, after a captivating album launch set for [...]
Well it may be a little late to breathlessly announce 'live in Edinburgh this week' with multiple exclamation marks and the like, but tardy or not, there are some fine shows on in the capital this week, so plenty for you to do, should you be at a loose end and have a musical itch which needs a-scratching. I am listening to some Barna Howard in the office today, and it's perfect. The sun is blazing, but the weather is cold, and that kind of beautiful acoustic music is absolutely perfect for that odd sense of [...]
The Curiocast because there are indeed some odd little bits and pieces on this week's podcast. Listen to it and you might not notice much different - it's not exactly shocking or all that strange or anything like that, but there are most certainly a few odd little things here and there. Geographically, we have music from Karachi, Vienna and Novosibirsk. Genre-wise, we have some of the first R&B(ish) music ever to appear on a Toadcast and then we end with seven minutes of choral folk singing performed in Hamilton Mausoleum, reputed to have the longest echo of [...]
Wow this week is busy - there are even two awesome gigs happening on Sunday night, which is rather unusual. As it happens, I don't really know how many I am going to manage, all told. Maybe one or two. After last weekend's efforts I think laying off the drink a little may prove to be an eminently sensible decision for a little while. This means you can probably safely attend most of these gigs without running the risk of me being there and either getting drunk and calling you something offensive or, and this might actually be [...]
Once again I find myself listing a pile of gigs I can't possibly attend myself. And, frustratingly, there is a shitload of interesting stuff on this week. Specifically, the Gerry Loves split 73 launch on Thursday and the Tinderbox Orchestra stuff at the Queen's Hall on the weekend look bloody amazing. I'll still be charging about like a fanny though, and unable to get to any of this. Annoyingly. Ah well, you'll have a good week at least! There is also a slightly confusing one, in that on the Sneaky Pete's website [...]
Friend of Muse Matthew Collings will drop pianos alongside Tim Hecker on Saturday, May 19 at Pilrig St Paul’s Church in Edinburgh . This will mean some terrific exposure for Collings, who has a beautiful short film soundtrack out this year, and a possible album soon. If an ocean doesn't separate you from the concert venue, you should attend. And even if one does, you should think about it anyway. Fly, sail or swim, your options are almost endless... Wounded Knee will round out the [...]
I've been to some very, very good gigs recently, but this was fucking incredible. Drew ( Wounded Knee ) put together an evening of bands to celebrate the release, on Gerry Loves Records , of his album House Music . He was preceded on stage by The Wee Rogue, whose hunched playing style and gentle vocals we rather lovely. Kittens, I wasn't so sure about, I must be honest. They were nice to listen to, particularly in the intimate environment of this particular gig, but I am not all that sure I would feel compelled to [...]
i've become fascinated by the voice again recently. dylan nyoukis dragged out of foosty shelves, mattin's new rockist record pieced together starting with vocals, the fuss over lou reed croakling on lulu, my ever-present love for tim eriksen. so i guess now's as good a time as any to barely mention drew wright again. s'weird given the number of times i've seen him walking his tightrope live, twixt abstractions and one man folk harmonies, shruti drone and tape shenanigans, that he's earned scarcely a cheeky line or two. anyway, gerry loves records is rereleasing house music on cassette (and digital). it's kinda like [...]
Sorry about the delay getting this post up, but today has been the day of bureaucracy. Magnificent, steaming bureaucracy. Anyhow, apart from the momentous occasion of my birthday, there's actually quite a bit going on in Edinburgh this week. If you're really quick, and really keen you can nip down to the Liquid Room tonight and catch Wild Beasts . Their latest album may be a little tepid, despite the frantic fluffing from Drowned in Sound, but Two Dancers was incredible and they are a cracking live band. Also, Yuck are [...]
So here were are once again on another distinctly mediocre morning in one of the most utterly unremarkable months of the calender. I was born in November and at least November is pretty reliably completely shit, whereas October doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. It's not even consistently rubbish enough to hate. So far so fucking splendid. I have been driven away from Facebook today by an over-abundance (i.e. one person) of grown fucking adults talking in fucking babyspeak. "U cud of come 2 [insert name of some shit club or other]." Dear [...]
you are a surface too. ummm... did a bit of reflecting i spose but more in the internal sense, rather than as a blank canvas on which to be projectorly ejaculated at. so my loft-excavated white tee rendered somewhat redundant. that alexa meade-esque disappointment aside, most of this (noise, folk, projections, slides) fairly fired up the old synapses, tickled the eardrums and triggered some mental fomentation... starting with neil a. simpson's monochording blooze drone. one man. one guitar. a creaky silent movie on the science of bird tagging. which seemed at once amusingly quaint and sinister in it's [...]
this is quite possibly the most gorgeous thing i've heard this year... wounded knee / bandcamp this reworked version of ewan maccoll's "shoals of herring" is based on research during my archive trails residency at the school of scottish studies and relocates the narrator from great yarmouth to the east neuk of fife. recorded live in the wonderful acoustics of the old icehouse at helmsdale. the photo (by neil irving) is of sculptures on the doors by ruth macdougall. [...]
Left-click [ HERE ] to download the BEARY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE mix. TRACKLIST --- 01 I BELIEVE r.e.m. 02 GLITTER IN THEIR EYES patti smith 03 TRELLIC baxter dury 04 AT LEAST I HAVE YOU mates of state [...]
Sometimes the Edinburgh weather frustrates me, but sometimes it genuinely makes me laugh - like today. It pissed down with rain all the way through the Festival and now, the minute the tourists leave town, blazing sunshine! Excellent. Sadly the joke is on me as much as any tourist, because all I've really been able to do with the sunshine is sit in my office and stare out the window at it, which is hardly very inspiring, but umm... well, there you go. Anyhow, I am really not certain there's all that much on in Edinburgh [...]
Having already written the live listings for this week , I got a couple of emails about really interesting things happening as part of the Leith Festival and I think I should add a quick update here, because I reckon it's stuff people will (or should) be interested in. Leith is by some distance my favourite part of Edinburgh. It has a reputation for being scummy - it is the old docks after all - but for all there are still some pretty ropey parts, that is a long, long way from being the truth these days. [...]
The Glasgow Music and Film Festival is in full swing and tonight, when Lucky Dragons roll into town, promises to be one of the highlights of the 11 day extravaganza. "Independent promoters Cry Parrot and Glasgow Music & Film Festival are proud to present a special one-off conceptual event. Breaking down the traditional boundaries and hierarchies between performance and audience members, the event encourages full participation by audience members: You control the music. You control the film. Lucky Dragons are an experimental music act [...]
Snow! Awesome! Actually, we haven't got that much snow here in Edinburgh but I am sufficiently snow-starved that I am pretty excited nevertheless. Not as excited as the penguins at Edinburgh Zoo will presumably be of course, but excited nevertheless. Yusuf's three album launch shows last week were fantastic, but I am pretty pooped and will be taking it quite easy today. We've the Savings and Loan's album release to work on for Monday, but apart from that the label is now entering a rather quiet Winter - well, apart from our official Song, by [...]
If you're lucky enough to be close by or in Glasgow this weekend, then head on over to Eastern Promise, a music festival being brought to you by Platform over the 1st and 2nd of October. The lineup includes King Creosote and Malcolm Middleton on Saturday night (as you can see from this here poster). [...]
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