I've always taken the lament, " Music's just not as good as it was when I was young " to mean " I'm just not as interested in music as when I was young ". Over the eight years this blog has run a 'best of', styles have come and gone but there's never a shortage of wonderful sounds. These lists are always subjective, personal and far from definitive. Having witnessed pedestrians breaking out into horse riding inspired dance moves as I took a vaguely embarrassing cycle rickshaw journey up Oxford Street with Gangnam Style blasting [...]
The countdown is very nearly over. On the evening of the 19 June, the winner of the first ever Scottish Album of the Year Award will be announced in a highly anticipated ceremony at Glasgow's celebrated Film City. In the run up to this event, a long list of 20 albums was selected by judges from throughout the creative industries, from which a specially selected panel of music minds picked nine to feature on the award's shortlist, with the tenth album being chosen via public vote. Now, ten Scottish acts are in with the chance of [...]
Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells album Everything’s Getting Older is a pairing of two Scottish greats, a multi-instrumentalist composer (Wells) and a heavy accented poet (Moffat). The duo will play The Grand Social in Dublin on Friday, 30th of March. Ticket are priced at €18 (including booking fee) available from Tickets.ie and Ticketmaster .
I found my musical soulmate. Having come to the conclusion that my personal preferences in music had become so oddly deformed that no one could possibly share my love of free jazz, hip hop and metal, I discovered a year-end 50 favorite albums list that correlates with my interests. Craig Taborn and Tech N9ne? I am not alone. --- My new best friend's list does not include Everything's Getting Older , the new album by Aidan Moffat and Bill Wells. It's tentatively placed at [...]
Tomorrow night sees a couple of great gigs taking place round these parts. Martin Stephenson returns to play another show promoted by Alan Hendry under the Sounds In The Suburbs banner. Alan truly is one of the unsung heroes of the Glasgow music scene and readers from way back will know just how much enjoyment I've got from going along and seeing Martin in such brilliantly [...]
I don’t consider myself a jazz fan—I have very little knowledge of the genre; and I only have two jazz albums in my music library: the Sweet and Lowdown Soundtrack and A Charlie Brown Christmas. So it is not surprising that it took me a while to really get Everything's Getting Older by Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat —a brilliant avant-garde jazz album full of soothing piano lullabies and minimalistic percussion. The best part about Everything's Getting Older is the fascinating lyrics and Aidan Moffat’s [...]
It should have been a brilliant summer morning, but it's raining. Been like that for days now, you should be used to it, but no. Not yet. You wake up already tired. In the bathroom mirror you stare at while shaving, you can see what you became. The chances you missed, the opportunities you wasted, the wounds you got and the ones you gave, all of them draw little lines on your forehead, around your eyes, your cheeks, your mouth... Laughing wrinkles they call them. Bah. They just get deeper every day, [...]
Thursdays are always a bit of a quiet day on the blog, I guess most folk have much better things to do than read my waffle. Since things are a bit slow, then I guess it justifies me using this time to post a few videos that I have been enjoying. First up we have the new video for 'Anti Climb Paint' by FOUND. Continuing on with another Chemikal artist, we have the quite stunning video of 'The Copper Top' by Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat. [...]
Ah, Aiden Moffat. He's not just there for the miserable parts of life. Oh ok, yes he is. His dry, laconic, sodding miserable style has the perverse effect of making you feel quite perky. No idea why. What do you want from me, insight? He's back with Bill Wells, with a charming new record called "Everything's Getting Older". It is, as you'd expect, all solemn piano and vaguely uplifting strings and just general drollery, which is bracingly, refreshingly cleansing. Single "The Copper Top", with its funeral director video, gives you a [...]
Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - The Copper Top video A day in the life of Wells Moffat Funeral Directors provides the backdrop for 'The Copper Top', one of the standout tracks from Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat's acclaimed new album 'Everything's Getting Older', out now on Chemikal Underground Records. The video was shot and directed by Paul Fegan and features cameos from all the members of Bill & Aidan's band. CAST OF CHARACTERS Bill Wells (Piano) - Undertaker Aidan Moffat (Vocals) - Undertaker Aby Vulliamy (Viola) - Mourner [...]
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