American Men

Music highlights from the 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Lach's Antihoot, James Blake and Withered Hand among highlights

20 Jul 2011

The LuckyMe collective of artists and designers is one of Glasgow’s most successful cultural exports of recent years, and the group’s August party will once more give festivalgoers a chance to find out what they’re all about. This year, they’re having…

Glasgow Short Film Festival highlights 2011

Miranda Pennell Retrospective, Lonesome Road and Wounded Knee

18 Feb 2011

GSFF Opening Night Party with LuckyMe The Glasgow arts collective LuckyMe has a reputation for throwing great festival parties. It will helm GSFF’s opening-night shindig, with live performances and DJ sets from American Men, The Blessings, Éclair Fifi…

11 for 2011: The new music from Scotland to watch in 2011

Emeli Sandé, Emma’s Imagination, RM Hubbert and Clouds among those destined for a good year ahead

3 Jan 2011

Emeli Sandé The Aberdeen soul-popper was studying medicine at Glasgow Uni whilst also penning hits for Cheryl Cole, Chipmunk and Tinie Tempah. Her recent solo tour proved she’s no slouch when it comes to performing either – and her gutsy…

Hidden Door Festival vs Edinburgh Popfest

Two DIY Edinburgh music festivals in one weekend

22 Oct 2010

Two DIY capital music festivals on the same weekend – sod’s law, eh? While Edinburgh Popfest shuffles to the literate, wistful sounds of an international indie-pop line-up at the Wee Red Bar, The GRV and The Lot in its debut year, the Hidden Door…

Hudson Mohawke, The Blessings and American Men lined up to play Cab Vol

LuckyMe’s festival party, in association with The List

12 Aug 2010

LuckyMe are at it again. The taste-making record label and artists collective have lined up an exceptional bill for their third annual festival party, launched in association with The List. Warp Records’ electronic wunderkind Hudson Mohawke is topping a…

LuckyMe decamps to Cabaret Voltaire for the Festival

David Pollock talks to the Glasgow-based record label/art collective

6 Aug 2010

This has been the most important year yet in the evolution of Scottish electronic label LuckyMe, and this third annual Edinburgh Festival event featuring their friends, collaborators and signees should be the perfect showcase for local supporters and…

American Men set for Cry Parrot night

23 Jun 2010

Claude Speeed, guitarist and synth player in Scots ‘Miami-laser-rockers’ American Men is back where it all started for his band: on the beach in Barcelona, trying to decide if he’s fit for the Numbers party at Sonar that evening. ‘It’s lovely here,’ he…

Kristin Scott Thomas and LuckyMe on day one of the Glasgow Film Festival

Glasgow Film Festival blog

20 Feb 2010

Mellow greetings, fair reader. It was the first full day of the festival yesterday, and while it was a little quiet in some of the earlier screenings, by the time evening came around the ticket queues were swelling and the GFT could rightly be referred…