Eagleowl

Kid Canaveral’s Christmas Baubles II - Summerhall, Edinburgh, Sat 17 Dec 2011

Josie Long, eagleowl and more join in Kid Canaveral's annual shindig

6 Jan 2012

The combination of cheap tins and 12 hours of live entertainment could be an endurance test in the wrong hands, but the second annual Fence Records/Kid Canaveral Chirstmas Baubles all-dayer doesn’t exactly feel like a chore. A joyous turn by Fence…

Music-themed Christmas parties round-up

Festive shindigs on offer from Song, By Toad, Phantom Band, James Yorkston, Fence and more

13 Dec 2011

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas in Scotland’s indie village without a bunch of our favourite bands getting together to chip in for mince pies and mulled wine and treat us to / inflict upon us some of their most diligently practiced seasonal covers. Yes…

Retreat IV - Pilrig St Paul’s Church, Edinburgh, Sat 27 & Sun 28 Aug 2011

Glorious fourth appearance from the indie DIY pop fest

1 Sep 2011

All Sunday afternoons should be like the one at this year’s Retreat DIY pop festival: tea in our hands, bacon rolls in our bellies, and eagleowl gently blowing our minds. That was before a toddler joined them onstage and stole our hearts; before the…

Eagleowl - Limbo at Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh, Wed 1 Jun 2011

Optimism and sadness in new set by elegiac Edinburgh ‘post-folk’ band

29 Jun 2011

There was an equal sense of optimism and sadness fighting at the core of this almost entirely new set by elegiac Edinburgh ‘post-folk’ band Eagleowl. So quiet and deliberate was their music, so achingly hesitant about tipping over into full-blown…

Edinburgh's Retreat festival 2011

A fine August ending to Edinburgh’s annual festival hoopla

27 May 2011

It’ll be the fourth year running for the pocket-sized festival, which the organisers describe as ‘an independent micro music festival celebrating Edinburgh’s contribution to the international pop underground.’ And by ‘pop underground’, last year that…

Jonnie Common - Deskjob launch, Captain’s Rest, Glasgow, Wed 6 Apr 2011

Guests include Panda Su, Meursault and Conquering Animal Sound

25 Apr 2011

Honing his multifarious craft as curator, producer and alt-pop svengali, bespectacled tech-wizard Jonnie Common has pulled a sonorous blinder with Deskjob. It’s a compilation that showcases and rewires many of Scotland’s pre-eminent independent acts…

Johnny Lynch of Fence Records talks exclusively to The List about Home Game 2011

18 Apr 2011

Fence Records’ annual Anstruther-based shindig Home Game is approaching once again, offering three days of intimate musical adventures for anyone lucky enough to get their hands on one of the 400 highly-coveted tickets. ‘We’ve spent 8 years building…

The best Christmas gigs in Edinburgh and Glasgow

Burns, Zombie Nation, Ballboy and Broken Records among Christmas party gig highlights

10 Dec 2010

Stars In Their Eyes special/ Song, By Toad’s Christmas party/ Kid Canaveral’s Christmas Baubles/ Death Disco’s XXXmas Party/ Radio Magnetic’s Winter Rave/ Mungo’s Hi-Fi/ Bill Wells’ Black Christmas In a bygone olden, golden era – circa 1995 BC…

Withered Hand and Meursault head up Edinburgh's Retreat!

Home-grown, DIY city festival, in a church

24 Aug 2010

As we stagger, tired and bewildered, in the twilight of this year’s Edinburgh Festival, there’s a DIY pop haven on the horizon, and it’s got all of our names on it. It’s locally-sourced, it’s BYOB and it’s for all ages. Its name is Retreat. Sorry…

Withered Hand set for Edge Festival show

Key player in Edinburgh alt.folk scene hits the Fringe

10 Aug 2010

This likeable oddball is a key player in Edinburgh’s alt.folk scene. Singer Dan Willson is a regular performer at Fence Record nights (and also pops up at this week’s Haarfest festival, see page 129) and counts Neil Pennycook (of Meursault) Bart Owl…

Edinburgh radio station Fresh Air curate download album of Scottish acts

Eagleowl, Swimmer One and RM Hubbert feature on charity compilation

5 Aug 2010

Here at List Towers we love a launch and we love doing our bit for the greater good, so top marks all round for Fresh Air, who have launched a free downloadable album, celebrating some great Scottish talent, in support of Waverley Care. The track list…

Calvin Johnson and Muscles of Joy

One of Seattle's more prolific underground artist performs in both Glasgow and Edinburgh

23 Jul 2010

An inspiration to unpaid music interns everywhere, Calvin Johnson began his musical career by volunteering at a local radio station in his hometown of Olympia, Washington when he was fifteen. KAOS-FM’s policy of playing underground artists, as opposed…

Singles and downloads - May 4th 2010

4 May 2010

Trying to be cool is often the death of decent music, so let’s avoid style mag darlings and delve into the hinterlands of good tunesmithery. First up are Glaswegian foursome Kassidy who look and sound like they’re from Big Sur circa 1972. ‘Stray Cat…

How the capital sound of Edinburgh's music scene is rising

31 Mar 2010

For a long time it’s felt as though Edinburgh’s music scene has had to play second fiddle to its cooler, bigger West Coast brother, picking up on Glasgow’s trends and regularly borrowing its records, its clothes and a little of its cachet. But while the…

Woodpigeon - Die Stadt Muzikanten

29 Mar 2010

(End of the Road) An agrarian folk troupe with a penchant for alt-rock, Woodpigeon are a loose collective fronted by Calgary-via-Edinburgh harmonist Mark Hamilton. Their abundant third long-player is a complex, picturesque tapestry of pirate…

Fence Homegame 2010 line-up

20 Jan 2010

‘We’ve got the incredible Four Tet headlining on the Sunday night. His live sets are always spectacularly electric – so we’re really excited. Kieran has been to Homegame before, playing guitar as part of One Little Plane – so we’re delighted to have him…

Sick Kids Sunday 2

20 Jan 2010

It’s a bumper line-up with a definite wonky, folky, indie vibe as the GRV hosts this charity fundraiser. James Yorkston & Adrian Crowley take the headlining slot with their take on the songs of Daniel Johnson, with able backup from the likes of Broken…

Labels of love: Song, By Toad Records

6 Jan 2010

When and why did you launch the label? Basically, we got plastered with Broken Records and promised them that if they didn’t get signed by March 2008 then we’d release their album. They did get signed [to indie institute 4AD], but by then the idea had…

Eagleowl

6 Jan 2010

As one door opens, another closes, as Eagleowl launch their gift-wrapped ‘Sleep the Winter’ 7” single at the penultimate show at the Bowery before the venue’s sad and frankly unnecessary closure (well done, Edinburgh University Settlement, for thinking…

Singles and Downloads

17 Dec 2009

Homecoming is over, right? So it’s OK to say that Hue and Cry are canine excrement of the highest order? Their version of the Rolf Harris ‘classic’ ‘Two Little Boys’ (Blair Hill) is a painfully smug loungecore abomination, an affront to all human ears…

eagleowl

4 Dec 2009

Don’t be fooled. Edinburgh’s masters of lo-fi slowcore are, as one reviewer once pointed out, ‘No bed wetting lightweights’. No sir. Instead Bart (who’s also the brains behind tons of Scottish grassroots music events like Retreat! and The Gentle…

Playing with the Past

19 Aug 2009

This fantastic programme of old movies and new music returns after making an acclaimed debut at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival. Teaming short film works made in the 1930s and 40s from the Scottish Screen Archive including John…

Exposure: Woodpigeon

23 Jun 2009

Canadian troupe, Woodpigeon, have made a name for themselves abroad but it all started right here in Scotland. The band's founder, who elaborately calls himself Mark Andrew of the Hamiltons, resided in Edinburgh years ago and experienced things so…

Exposure: eagleowl

8 Apr 2009

Edinburgh trio eagleowl are chief exponents of slow-burning, affecting, lo-fi folk, and are currently part of a close-knit collective of local musicians centred around DIY label, Fife Kills:. Based on a foundation of mutual support as well as an obvious…

Limbo

27 Nov 2008

Half club half gig, Limbo has been bringing new live music to Edinburgh’s Thursday nights for a year now. For their first birthday (27 Nov) expect live sets from Micachu (pictured) and their avant-pop, twisted disco from A-Lix, Ex-Lion Tamer and Dead…

Singles & Downloads - Local Special

18 Sep 2008

Locally-sourced produce is all the rage these days, so let’s have a cheeky wee Scottish round-up this issue, eh? Quality meat to kick off in the form of Frightened Rabbit, whose ‘I Feel Better’/’The Twist’ (Fat Cat) •••• is excellently jittery, skittery…

Eagleowl

10 Apr 2008

INDIE Liquid Room, Edinburgh, Thu 20 Mar Not to be confused with the vicious bird world nasty they’re named after (who loves a bit of dog eating and deer biting), the Eagleowl live experience is a very gentle thing, like watching clouds dragged at a…

Autumn music special - your new favourite bands

18 Sep 2006

Dot to Dot sound like the bastard sons of Orange Juice and Lloyd Cole and their aim seems to be to get you dancing. They like their jangle, and they sometimes shamble, but their shows are always worth catching, and with their debut single, ‘Dusty…