ABC

Crate Digging: Before he lays waste to the Slam tent techno titan Dave Clarke takes us though his favourite albums

22 Jul 2011

I’m going to go completely vinyl, as you are probably aware I haven’t actually played professionally with vinyl for at least nine years so I’m going to go ‘back in the box’. I’ve had Devo Freedom of Choice (Warner Brothers) since it came out, I…

Grizzly Bear

Modern American indie heroes show off their brilliant new record, Veckatimest

15 Oct 2009

If the latest album from Grizzly Bear was a photo album, it would be full of those bleached-out, soft focus pictures of sunny beach holidays in the 70s, with good-looking hippies lounging around, grinning into the camera. Named after an uninhabited…

Jarvis Cocker

25 Jun 2009

One lanky, raised arm appears through a cloud of smoke, and the packed-out ABC goes nuts. I’m struggling to think of another UK performer who commands such instant, indulgent devotion – and naked lust, actually, as the room is thick with sex, and Our…

Stag & Dagger

14 May 2009

Even as some of Scotland’s smaller festivals-in-a-field take a sabbatical or call it a day in the current financial climate, new city events like Hinterland and now Stag & Dagger are enjoying their debuts this year. Could the way of the future for fans…

Eagles of Death Metal

19 Mar 2009

Sleazy kings of turbo charged, sexually salacious rock. Frontman Jesse ‘The Devil’ Hughes and his compadres will once again be preaching to the perverted at one of their raucous, rabble rousing hard rock sermons. ABC, Glasgow, Tue 31 Mar.

ABC: Going Down to Alphabet Street

1 Dec 2008

Glasgow enjoys an embarrassment of riches when it comes to live music venues. Of course the Barrowland, still enjoying the same atmosphere it held when it was a 1960s dancehall, is the most widely-famed, while the intimate Nice’n’Sleazy and King Tut’s…

Human League, ABC and Heaven 17

27 Nov 2008

SYNTH-POP ELECTRONICA When David Bowie watched Human League play an early gig in 1979, he said he’d just seen ‘the future of pop music’ and their sci-fi, deadpan brand of electronica was ‘like listening to 1980’. Almost 30 years later, with synth-pop…