Aberfeldy

Singles & Downloads

15 Aug 2010

Is there just no stopping Robyn? What with her three albums in a year and her electro-pop victories, and her masquerade as an inferior fembot going by the name of Sky Ferreira, and – sorry, what’s that you say? Ferreira is in fact a Portuguese-American…

Aberfeldy - Somewhere To Jump From

15 Aug 2010

(Tenement Records) At last, at long last, the ’Feldy are back. Edinburgh’s favourite MOR-pop sons (and daughters, although the band’s female membership has been changeable of late) have returned with their third album since 2006’s Do Whatever Turns…

Music festivals 2010: Festival profiles

28 May 2010

Big or small, loud or quiet, dry or muddy – we love festivals whatever their size, sound or likelihood to leave you soaking wet. Over the next 20 pages we'll give you the lowdown on every major fest hitting Scotland this summer, and information on a few…

Charity Baw

13 Nov 2009

Nope, not a fundraiser for testicular cancer – this charity ball’s for Oxfam, and funds raised are going to support the fight against climate change. Acts such as The Real Tuesday Weld, Aberfeldy, The Parsonage, Withered Hand, Come On Gang!, Big Ned…

Phil Campbell

11 Jun 2009

SINGER-SONGWRITER You can tell that Phil Campbell’s a songwriter’s songwriter by the company he keeps: members of Edinburgh’s Aberfeldy and The Gillyflowers have sung around for his set, and they seem to be enjoying what they hear. But then the…

Exposure: Aberfeldy

17 Dec 2008

Although they’ve suffered unexpected personnel changes, the end of their record deal with Rough Trade and various other unfortunate happenings in the last couple of years, Edinburgh’s Aberfeldy are still moving onwards, having released a new single…

Singles & Downloads

13 Nov 2008

It would seem that the season-savvy have been busy fashioning tracks to stay indoors to. Sofas, fine lounging and low key indie sounds are the order of the day for this fortnight’s top runners. Producer Kwes’ salutation to the slipper-set, debut solo…

Splash Down

1 Oct 2008

From deep highland lochs, to bubbling fresh springs, Scotland is a country overflowing with water. The lochs hide the monsters of Scottish superstition, while the spring water is fused together with malted barley to produce the ‘uisge-beatha’ or whisky.

Leith Festival

22 May 2008

To commemorate the annual clamjamfry of community celebration way down dockward, we thought we’d treat you to a picture of everyone’s favourite Leither. Okay, everyone’s favourite fictional Leither. We’re not just gratuitously posting pictures of…

Aberfeldy

The secret history

4 Sep 2006

Launch a pop career with the opening gambit ‘I love everyone/everybody underneath the sun’, as Aberfeldy did in the first lyric of 2004’s debut album Young Forever, and you will fight against a certain tide of conceptions. Particularly if you a) are a…

Hitlist

4 Sep 2006

Mark Olsen and the Creekdippers Wholesome and vibrant Americana from Olsen, his wife Victoria Williams and Ben Weaver all the way from Joshua Tree, California. ABC, Glasgow, Sat 10 Sep. (Rock & Pop) The Joyriders The Edinburgh-based pop-grungers…