Music, Country, David Pollock

John C Reilly & Friends - St Andrew’s in the Square, Glasgow, Tue 12 Feb 2013

Actor takes country band on the road as part of Wreck-It Ralph publicity tour

’We got the Death Star to work for us,’ laughs John C Reilly, actor, singer, raconteur and star of Disney offering Wreck-It Ralph, explaining the novel approach to around-the-world publicity junkets he managed to talk the megacorpration into. Instead…

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Wolfroy Goes to Town

Compelling alt-country from Will Oldman

(Domino) ‘Stop all the moaning and bemoaning your fate / god isn’t listening, or else it’s too late,’ sings Will Oldham on ‘Time to Be Clear’, his voice like driftwood lapping at the shore. In all things heart-shattering and beautiful in the world of…

Crosby, Stills and Nash line up 2010 UK tour

Since their guest-starring role at last year’s Glastonbury (playing in proximity to, but sadly not alongside, their erstwhile fourth member Neil Young), this trio have been pounding the rock’n’roll comeback trail so favoured lately by bands of their…

The Gillyflowers

COUNTRY ROCK In the short term, Edinburgh’s Gillyflowers won’t be able to escape drawing attention due to the fact their lead singer Kirsten Adamson is the daughter of the late Stuart Adamson. In the long term, though, the feeling is that they – and…

Exposure: Aberfeldy

Although they’ve suffered unexpected personnel changes, the end of their record deal with Rough Trade and various other unfortunate happenings in the last couple of years, Edinburgh’s Aberfeldy are still moving onwards, having released a new single…

Chris Bradley - Voices

COUNTRY ROCK (Splashing Duck) Edinburgh-based Chris Bradley’s biography is an impressive read, all tales of musical scholarships, first class honours studying Music at Newcastle University and – most memorably – forming Ukrainian folk groups in Kiev.

Marissa Nadler - live music review

COUNTRY-FOLK Stereo, Glasgow, Tue 13 May Waif-like guitar-picking girls are ten a penny these days, what with your Cat Powers and your Bat for Lashes already well established. And like the sphere of male singer-songwriters, it’s a field which could…