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
We’re Only Human I Suppose After a quick family sojourn to the car park to retrieve our evening attire, we return to the arena and set up for the night erecting our sun tent. The picnic blanket is unrolled in front and the luminous blue Lay Sac is gracefully inflated by yours truly before being … More Electric Fields – Steve Mason
A family day out which starts in a pop/ up vinyl shop and ends ….. ? … More Festival Adventures : Partick to Drumlanrig
They say you should never meet your hero’s. I disagree. … More Meeting The Charlatans (Part 1)
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
I’m not going to be present this weekend at T In The Park. This will be only the second time in 23 years that I have not made it along for at least one day of the crazy weekend of music and hedonism. I’ll miss it. In the beginning – almost. My relationship with … More This Is The Point (TITP)
17 years ago this very night I carried my new wife over the threshold of our flat. Here are 7 songs which mark important stages of our relationship. Crystal Ships – The Doors This is the song which was being played when we first became a couple. We were at The Venue in Edinburgh to … More The Story So Far In Seven Songs
