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Findlay Napier and The Bar Room Mountaineers - Out All Night

Findlay Napier and The Bar Room Mountaineers - Out All Night

(4 stars)11 Dec 2008

SCOTTISH AMERICANA This debut from the Back of the Moon, Croft No. Five and Celtic Connections stalwarts is a peculiarly natural Scottish Americana that weaves traditional Scots instrumentation with an altogether wider influence, exemplified by the…

The Wizard of Never Woz

The Wizard of Never Woz

11 Dec 2008

Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow, until Sat 24 Jan. Typical! You wait years for a decent adaptation of that shining celluloid classic The Wizard of Oz to hit Glasgow, and then two come along at once. While the Citizens’ Theatre’s production is a straight…

Y'all is Fantasy Island - No Ceremony

Y'all is Fantasy Island - No Ceremony

(5 stars)11 Dec 2008

ALTERNATIVE POST-ROCK From the deepest darkest depths of Falkirk (and Glasgow), singer-songwriter Adam Stafford and his fine band of musicians unleash their third excellent, self-financed album. Marking a significant change of direction (actually…

James Orr Complex - Com Favo

James Orr Complex - Com Favo

(4 stars)11 Dec 2008

BRAZILIAN MATH-FOLK BLUES Having relocated to São Paulo, Christopher Mack’s follow up to Chori’s Bundle doesn’t immediately suggest any discernable favella-sourced inspiration. Indeed, there is nothing immediate about what might be mistaken for…

Soma 2008

Various - Soma 2008

(4 stars)11 Dec 2008

TECHNO/HOUSE The opener (an Adam Beyer remix of Slam’s ‘Staccato Rave’) is a stormer of understated techno brilliance and while at over 12 tracks this compilation loses momentum at times, the old school acid squelch of Funk d’Void & Sian, the…

Sans Trauma - Rushing Your Dragon

Sans Trauma - Rushing Your Dragon

(3 stars)11 Dec 2008

Electronica/Acoustic Rushing Your Dragon comes across a bit like the Delia Smith of the music world: largely inoffensive and pretty mundane. There's no harm in listening to the six track EP (Sans Trauma's debut effort) but there's also little gain.

Gerhard Richter: Paintings

Gerhard Richter: Paintings

11 Dec 2008

Time is running out to catch the first retrospective in the UK for 20 years of Gerhard Richter’s work (his first ever exhibition in Scotland). The stunning show reflects the zeitgeist of Richter’s native Germany between World War II and the early Cold…

Various - Kung Fu Super Sounds

Various - Kung Fu Super Sounds

(3 stars)11 Dec 2008

EXPERIMENTAL FILM/OST Strictly one for the movie soundtrack buff (especially Tarantino fans), this collection of 43 Shaw Brothers/Martial Arts excerpts from 1976-1984 on one CD, is a hit and miss affair. The soundtracks of Dirty Ho, Return to the…

Biffy Clyro

Biffy Clyro

11 Dec 2008

The Biffy have been huge in Scotland for a good while now (hence selling out the SECC) but it’s been gratifying to see the rest of the world catch on to their off centre rock brilliance. For a band who create such complex rock it’s perhaps strange to…

Thomas Truax

Hobo

11 Dec 2008

Hobo has been livening up Sundays at the Bongo with an eclectic brew of indie, electro and other quirky live goodies for a while now and for their Christmas party they’re pulling out all the stops with special guest Thomas Truax (pictured) and a full…

Heartbeat

Heartbeat

11 Dec 2008

Electro, Italo-disco duo Heartbreak (British producer Ali Renault and Argentinean singer Sebastian Muravchik) recently scored a full five stars for their debut album Lies in this very magazine, where we described their sound as akin to ‘the Scissor…

Spectrum

Spectrum

11 Dec 2008

Spacemen 3 set the template for proggy post-rock. Unsurprisingly, given their moniker, they offered a cosmic narcotic haze of guitar and practically invented the term ‘space rock’. They split in 1991, with Jason Pierce going on to form Spiritualized…

Runrig's Loch Lomond voted Scotland's greatest song

Runrig's Loch Lomond voted Scotland's greatest song

11 Dec 2008

Runrig’s Loch Lomond has pocketed the title Scotland’s Greatest Song in a poll run by charity ScotsCare. The band secured 40% of the vote narrowly beating Big Country who scored 37% of the vote. Surprisingly, Dougie McLean’s stirring Caledonia…

DJ Craze

DJ Craze

11 Dec 2008

Monday special from How’s Your Party? but hey, it’s Christmas, and they’ve got DJ Craze on guest duties. Famed for his hip hop and breaks sets and furious mixing skills earning him the prestigious World DMC Champion trophy a record breaking three times…

Slam and Soma issue Pressure10 documentary

Slam and Soma issue Pressure10 documentary

11 Dec 2008

As part of their birthday celebrations for Pressure, Slam and Soma have issued Pressure10, a movie on the decade of the flagship club night, showing some of the Glasgow night’s finest hours, with appearances from Richie Hawtin, Green Velvet, Ricardo…

Vatersay Boys

Vatersay Boys

11 Dec 2008

Expect a full on Scottish hoe-down from the five piece Vatersay Boys as they bring fire and passion to traditional music on two boxes, bass guitar, drums and pipes. So look forward to an exuberant frenzy of ceilidh music and dynamic folk that’s perfect…

Be a Familiar

Be a Familiar

11 Dec 2008

You can’t accuse Be a Familiar of a lack of ambition. Their songs are crammed with soaring brass, piano, guitar and vocal harmonies all sung with a distinct Scots brogue. They take indie in new directions, expanding on the formula to create an up-beat…

What are you doing for Erskine week?

What are you doing for Erskine week?

22 May 2008

Help raise funds to care for deserving ex-Service men and women throughout Scotland. 1st-8th June 2008

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