
If you're in Glasgow for a couple of nights it'd be churlish not to pay a visit to one of the iconic music venues, King Tut's Wah Wah Hut. Walking up the steps from the main bar your feet pass over the printed names of some of the big name acts who've graced it's stage. From the Manic's and Blur in '91, it's a veritable who's who of Indie... Oasis, Pulp, Radiohead and erm.. Natalie Imbruglia. King Tut's even has its own lager, the whiff of which sent my nostrils spinning back a few days to the distilleries and wash [...]

Kowalskiy The trouble with writing these Friday Freebies on a Thursday night is that quite often someone posts a cracking free download on the Friday and I don't have time to update the post. This happened last week when my fellow blogger, Kowalskiy posted up his latest free monthly EP, his latest offering was possibly his best to date (do I say that every month?) including tracks from Blue Sky Archives, This Silent Forest, The Sea Kings, The Spook School and my current favourite thing ever - Behold, the Old Bear (who are also coincidentally playing [...]

The Tolbooth Sessions is a compilation of 10 bands from in and around Stirling, London. Each of the bands recorded one track with Andy Monaghan, an established Scottish musician as the producer in the tolbooth's recording studio. As a fan of compilations, I was very excited about listening to this record and I can safely say it wasn't a disappointment. Read more..