Glasvegas

Glasvegas - King Tut's, Glasgow, Wed 27 Mar 2013

The rock'n'roll quartet perform secret, Beatles-themed gig as The Savage Stage Bells

In 1965, a distressed John Lennon penned the lyrics, 'Help! I need somebody! Help and not just anybody!' over the difficulties of coping with his rapid rise to fame. Over half a century later and in the belly of King Tuts, James Allan, adorned in a…

James and Glasvegas confirmed for The Big Stooshie 2012

Full line-up announced for Fife charity weekender

Scotland’s charity music festival The Big Stooshie is coming to Giffordtown in Fife for the first time in May, with a three day event aimed at raising money for SSAFA Forces Help and Help for Heroes. Glasvegas, James, The Damned and The Hoosiers will…

Metronomy and The Kills among best of this week's singles and downloads

Wu Lyf's Dirt take Single of the Week

Glasvegas, right – they’re not for everyone. But The List don’t believe in hatin’ on your neighbours, so gave ‘Shine Like Stars’ (Sony) a spin. Bummer, though, because the latest single from EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\, may be polished synth-tinged…

RockNess - Dores, Loch Ness, Fri 10-Sun 12 Jun 2011

Something-for-everyone and friendly, if intense, atmosphere

At first glance, the RockNess 2011 line-up looked a little schizophrenic. Acts were mainly pulled from the distant camps of Scots indie rock (Glasvegas, Paolo Nutini, Frightened Rabbit), and pioneering electronica (Jamie xx, Chemical Brothers, Groove…

Interview: Glasvegas - Rab Allan on being older, wiser and stronger in 2011

Glasgow band talk to us ahead of their main stage slot at RockNess

‘My head wasn’t in a very good place either. My head was up my arse. I didn’t really know what was happening. I was just as bad as he was,’ explains Glasvegas guitarist Rab Allan with a nervous laugh. He’s referring to frontman (and Rab’s cousin) James…

Glasvegas encourage fans to lose inhibitions

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Glasvegas hope their songs will encourage fans to have a "romance with a stranger". James Allan - the lead singer of the Scottish indie rockers - explained for a year of the group's last performance run he was the "tour s**g" and used to indulge in…

Glasvegas - Royal Concert Hall steps, Glasgow, Mon 4 Apr 2011

Open air Buchanan Street gig showcases new album to crowd of 1000+

It’s a dreich, drizzly day in Glasgow, and it feels surprisingly apt for Glasvegas’ album launch show; a lunchtime freebie on the steps of the Royal Concert Hall - a thank you to their home city on the day of the release of their second album EUPHORIC…

Glasvegas rock with mother

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James Allan's mother features on the new Glasvegas album. The 31-year-old rocker revealed his mum Elizabeth Corrigan appears of the final track of new record 'Euphoric /// Heartbreak \\\' - entitled 'Change' - and she wasted no time in bossing studio…

Glasvegas: EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\

Below par return from the Glasgow miserabilists

(Columbia) Funny that Glasvegas used ‘Euphoric’ in the title of their sophomore album. This is euphoria’s most definite of antonyms, but did anyone expect otherwise? Euphoric///Heartbreak\\\ is a Glaswegian dirge, muddled in lucid synth and languid…

Glasvegas star James Allan overdosed

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Glasvegas frontman James Allan has confessed the band axed American tour dates because he suffered an overdose. The Scottish band pulled out of the 2009 Coachella music festival, which is held in the Californian desert, at the last minute announcing…

RockNess / T in the Park line-ups announced

Pulp, Arctic Monkeys, and Foo Fighters for T; Groove Armada, Kasabian and Chemical Bros for RockNess

The great and good of the music world are set to arrive in style this summer with both T in the Park and RockNess dishing up the goodies for their June and July festivals. At TITP in Balado, the mighty Pulp join Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay and Foo Fighters…

Kasabian, The Chemical Brothers, Paolo Nutini and Glasvegas set for RockNess 2011

Line-up also includes DJ Shadow, Frightened Rabbit, Magnetic Man

Rockness, Scotland's fastest growing festival, returns for 2011 with some of the hottest new acts in guitar music, while simultaneously remaining true to its electronic roots. Looking at the line-up, combined with winning NME's 'Best Small Festival…

Glasvegas threaten people 'looking' at new drummer

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Glasvegas' guitarist Rab Allan threatened to break the legs of a man who "looked at" their new female drummer. The Scottish rocker and his bandmates - singer James Allan and bassist Paul Donoghue - feel protective of Swedish Jonna Pofgren, who joined…

Glasvegas set for 2011 UK tour

Glasgow band record ten track as-yet-untitled second album with Flood

The last time this writer spoke to Glasvegas frontman James Allan, in advance of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay party last year, he sounded absolutely shattered after two years of touring and promoting on the back of the band’s hugely successful debut album.

Alan Cumming, Calvin Harris and Glasvegas among nominees at Scottish Style Awards 2009

Glasgow certainly knows how to do things with class, and this year’s Scottish Style Awards look set to raise the bar even higher. The starry event takes place on Hallowe’en and their stylish cauldron is likely to be spilling over with high profile…

Why Mercury win for Speech Debelle marks return to award's roots

Unlike other big-budget nominees, 2009's £20,000 may actually mean something

The sales of Elbow's fourth album, The Seldom Seen Kid, quadrupled after their Mercury Award in 2008. It's a safe bet that the winner of this year's accolade, Speech Debelle, will match at least that part of the Manchester's band's huge success: the…

Glasvegas - We Love To Boogie, Glasgow, Tue 1 Sep 2009

‘Fuck the neighbours!’ shouts someone within the crowd spilling out onto the street. ‘James, please – turn it up to 11!’ Maybe the quiet little acoustic gig Glasvegas’ James Allan had in mind when he arranged this Twitter-promoted secret show wasn’t so…

2009 Mercury Music Prize shortlist on show

Regardless of who triumphs, contenders' nomination is gain enough

This past year has seen Elbow prove to all just what a Mercury win can do to a band's career. Though toiling for near 15 years in relative indie obscurity, seemingly destined to never play the arenas their songs merited, their 2008 victory for fourth…

2009 Mercury Prize shortlist announced

Kasabian, The Horrors, Bat For Lashes and others. Plus Spotify playlist

The shortlist for this year's Mercury Prize - the annual £20,000 award for the best album by British and Irish artists - was revealed this morning. The twelve albums nominated were announced by Lauren Laverne at The Hospital club in London's Convent…

White Lies

Despite its grand themes of life and death, To Lose My Life or Lose My Love was the first album of 2009 to go straight in at number one. Not bad for a debut album and a cracking start to the year for London trio Whites Lies. Having begun life as punky…

Singles & Downloads

By the time you read this there will be no escaping it: the country will be brainwashed and swamped by X Factor mania, swaying in a zombified state to a bland and inspid version of ‘Hallelujah’ and I’ll have attempted to eat my own ears. Again. So…

Glasvegas - The Christmas Album

SEASONAL ROCK Available via download or as part of repackaged re-release of their debut long player this isn’t quite the full on Christmas ‘album’ Glasvegas promised, but they have delivered six outstanding songs for the holiday season. And it…

Your New Favourite Band

Glasvegas were iconic before any of us had even heard of them. Discovered by Alan McGee (who was out with Dirty Pretty Things’ Carl Barat at the time) in Glasgow’s King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, the band must have known they were on the cusp of something…

Glasvegas - Glasvegas

Glasvegas like to tell stories. Their self-titled debut CD is a little circular storybook, filled with distinctly Scottish tales of city living and working class heroes. Album opener ‘Flowers and Football Tops’ is a tender tribute to the murder of a…

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Tennent’s Mutual

Don’t worry if you’re still scratching your head at the concept of Tennent’s Mutual – the ‘experimental’ new ‘co-creative’ music initiative, which launched its first line-up earlier this month – you’re in good company, and even Tennent’s’ Senior…