Indie

Hitlist: Clubs

Where to go and what to dance to this week

20 Aug 2009

David Holmes, Modern Lovers, Elextric Frog Street Carnival, Million Dollar Disco, Club For Heroes, Eyes Wide Open, Tokyoblu, Melting Pot, Second CIty

The Pineapple Chunks vs The Leg

Confusion Is Sex, The Bongo Club, Edinburgh, Fri 7 Aug 2009

10 Aug 2009

So what do you get if you put two of Edinburgh’s most maverick and free-spirited guitar-based bands side by side in a nightclub’s upstairs café after midnight, then get them to play their own sets – at the same time? In the case of this curious and…

Nodzzz - Nodzzz

10 Aug 2009

Fuse the quirkiness of Pavement, with the short-sharp-shock of The Folk Implosion, plus a thousand similar retro-new wave acts, and you get California kids Nodzzz. For people in a hurry and running at just under 16 minutes for 10 songs (and not…

Modest Mouse - No One’s First, and You’re Next

7 Aug 2009

(Columbia) Yeah, yeah so an eight-track EP should technically get lumped in with the singles but eight tracks of Mr Isaac Brock’s genius is worth 100 of our lousy words so that’s what you’re getting. Culled from a bunch of limited singles from the…

Wire

6 Aug 2009

‘Discotronic pop, art punk, twisted folk, electronic love and beyond,’ promises promoter/resident DJ Craig Jamieson at Wire. ‘Scotland’s most eclectic soundclash celebrates the best in innovative and cult music.’ Jamieson will be happily living up to…

Clubs Hit List - Glasgow

30 Jul 2009

Edinburgh too busy for you? Here's our pick of the best nights to be had out in Glasgow

The Big Tent Festival

23 Jul 2009

‘There is a real sense of belonging and connection to something at the Big Tent Festival,’ explains the event’s programme director Mike Small. ‘The message is more “come join us” than “gimme your money”.’ Set up in July 2005, the…

Wild Beasts - Two Dancers

23 Jul 2009

Imagine Antony Hegarty from Antony and the Johnsons fronting vintage Talking Heads. It might just work, right? Wrong, at least in the hands of Kendal kids Wild Beasts, it is. Maybe it’s all in the execution, which is at best seriously underwhelming and…

Dead Man’s Waltz

23 Jul 2009

Otherwise know as Injuns, DMW are the slightly more eccentric de-incarnation of their more subdued counter parts. Live shows promise to be something of a mystical experience aiming to blur the lines between gig, audience and band to create something…

St Vincent

9 Jul 2009

PREVIEW INDIE She may induce elemental wonder, but Annie Clark is no meteorologist. ‘By my humble estimation, it’s 175 Fahrenheit here today,’ affirms Clark – aka cinematic sorceress St Vincent – of her prevailing Atlanta, Georgia vicinity. A quick…