Firstly here’s a bit of background to this gig. A few years back I had tickets to see Edinburgh’s very own Delta Mainline, a band described as being “Gloriously out of step with the rest of Scottish music” on their Bandcamp page. They were scheduled to play Sneaky Pete’s in The Cowgate in Edinburgh. Unfortunately … More KOKOD presents SHREDD + The Kidney Flowers @ The Dreadnought, Bathgate
NOTE to reader. This review was written in September 2017. It’s taken me until now to recover for the experiences of the night in question. Try and enjoy the trip. Almost exactly a year ago, the former Amazing Snakes front man, Dale Barclay, announced, with the unleashing of No Way Back To lunch, that he … More AYIM @ Sneaky Pete’s
Up a small side street in Bathgate, West Lothian, sits a wee gem of a venue that might just be my favourite find of 2016. … More Les Frites Petites @ The Purple Orange (06/10/16)
A last minute decision that pays off. I nearly didnt’ go to see Peter Hook And The light playing Substance : Joy Division & New Order, at the Glasgow Barrowlands on Thursday night, but I did and I’ll be telling anyone who will listen that I was there. I first became a New Order … More Peter Hook And the Light @ Barrowlands Ballroom, Sept 2016
The Amazing Snakeheads Way back in the dark distant past of 2014, whilst attending The Wickerman Festival, I stumbled on Dale Barclay’s Amazing Snakeheads playing to a packed Solus Tent. With a guitar strapped over his shoulder, stripped to the waist and slugging from a Buckfast bottle which was being passed around the stage, … More A Long And Strange Trip
The Red, The Blue and the Coffee The red tent housing Tim Peaks Stage at Electric Fields is not where you would expect to find a coffee shop but you do and much more. This is the first time Tim Burgess aided and abetted by Nick Fraser has brought his pop up coffee shop come … More Blueprint Blue at Tim Peaks (Electric Fields)
Sometimes you just have to grab life by ….. … More The Twilight Sad – Electric Fields
A family day out which starts in a pop/ up vinyl shop and ends ….. ? … More Festival Adventures : Partick to Drumlanrig
For those reminiscing on this 2nd Strathallan T Saturday. It’s been a long time 20 years to be exact Since they set up the stages On the blaze at Strathy Park With the camping located Right next to the Loch A few thousand sun-crazed campers Across a bridge did walk And into the arena With … More 21st T -A Farewell to Balado
The Glass Half Empty ex-member of Arabstrap puts a smile on our faces. Naw Really he did. … More Do you realize : Sardonic Self Deprication Makes You Smile
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