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)
Witnessing failed stage diving through Crystal Ships Partaking in front of stage crushes to Up To Our Hips Missing whole performances from The Stereo MCs Wow these New Yorkers are magic, who gave you these? Sleeping in the bleachers listening to Black Grape Throwing sweat loaded clothing at everyone’s favourite ape Imagining … More Memories of gigs gone by.
2016 continues with it’s relentless cull of rock’n’roll legends. Today a man I knew through a friend passed away. I didn’t know Davie Speirs very long and I wouldn’t claim to know him well, but I knew him and as a result this blog exists. Here’s how. I met Davie standing at the back door … More “Ye man, you lived it too.”
All good music takes you on a journey. Mostly you are able to choose your level of involvement. No Way Back To Lunch runs to 12 minutes and by the end I wasn’t sure if I had walked voluntarily through this latest offering from the depths of Dale Barclay’s musical experiences, or been lead through … More No Way Back To Lunch – Review
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
