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4 Oct 2007
Late last month, Rufus Wainwright was in Los Angeles, treading the hallowed boards of the Hollywood Bowl, whooping it up as only Rufus can whoop it up. He had brought his acclaimed Judy Garland Live At Carnegie Hall show to town. Just him, an orchestra…
‘It’s a total headfuck.’ Kate Nash is not playing it cool. The 20-year-old pop songstress has had such a sudden rise to fame, she’s still coming to terms with her newfound celebrity status. The paparazzi followed her all summer, while Prince has…
Any band who name themselves after the Russian uprising of 1825 are, you feel, coming from a different place to most other heralded groups for whom the tune’s the thing. The Decemberists’ architect and songwriter Colin Meloy is not so much a tunesmith…
Less flamboyant than Rufus Wainwright, less earthy than Richard Hawley, Edinburgh singer-songwriter Cornish here provides a passable debut which suggests he might yet carve out a niche of his own. Orchestral, plaintive and melancholic, the downbeat pop…
Stemming from the more natural dancefloor territory of Soma’s Sci-Fi Hi-Fi series, this new brand allows name DJs the opportunity to delve into the more eclectic areas of their collection. First up, then, is Andrew Weatherall’s rockabilly set, and it’s…
Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Thu 13 Oct Every face in the crowd waits expectantly for the one song from the back catalogue of Annie Christian that means the most to them, whether from their electro-infused, gloomy and melodic indie origins in the…
The Scottish Ensemble: Passionate Romantics Starting their winter season with the fire of passion and romance, the SE play the luscious, but infrequently aired Chausson Concert for violin, piano and strings. A great success when first performed, its…
The addition of Lewis-born Gaelic singer Calum Alex MacMillan to their well-established instrumental line-up has added a new dimension to the music of Dàimh, a band with roots in the West Highlands, but a personnel that includes an American (fiddler…
King Tut’s, Glasgow, Wed 12 Sep Looking a bit like a geography teacher exiting a half-pipe, Scroobius Pip arrives on stage in Glasgow soon after the final whistle in Paris. ‘Four words,’ he calmly offers, ‘Scotland 1 – France 0,’ before adding…
The Devendra Banhart live experience is akin to watching over-excitable teenagers being left in charge for a bank holiday weekend. Listening to him in your home is like being left out of someone else’s joke. While his folkiosyncratic ways have given…
Although recorded prior to his near fatal double cerebral haemorrhage in 2005, Edwyn Collins’ sixth solo long player can’t help but resonate more poignantly in light of everything the ex-Orange Juice frontman has been through. At one stage he looked…
There’s no shortage of leftfield hip hop deviants throwing down the gauntlet but New York’s El-P has hit his creative peak pouring over a global dystopia on his dark, twisted album I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead. Collaborations with Trent ‘Nine Inch Nails…
When people refer to bands as ‘underrated’ it mostly means they were often too weird, too unfashionable or too good for the general populace to care about. For Mclusky, who tragically imploded in 2005, it was a case of all three and subsequent output…
Acoustic Ladyland Pete Wareham’s genius punk jazz quartet return with a breathtaking live album in tow. Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Mon 8 Oct. (Rock & Pop, Jazz) Oxjam A whole month of fine music in aid of Oxfam including local heroes We Were…
Oran Mor, Glasgow, Wed 19 Sep Witnessing the self-proclaimed ‘media darlings of the Glasgow scene’, it feels impolite to burst Isosceles’ bubble when watching them is such a happy experience. Obviously paying close attention in trigonometry class…
Despite lazy comparisons to fellow Londoners Lily Allen, Kate Nash and Jamie T, Jack Peñate sounds like nothing like his peers. This Blackheath-born boy has got soul – you can hear it in his heartfelt delivery – and when combined with incredibly…
It’s sometimes said you know you’ve hit the big time when your song gets banned. London MC Lethal Bizzle might not have reached the notoriety of the Sex Pistols when his infamous track ‘Pow! (Forward Riddim)’ was banished from clubs across the country…
Manu Chao might just about be a household name in the UK, thanks in the main to 2001’s ubiquitous Próxima Estación: Esperanza, but he has not conquered the hearts and minds of Brits to the same degree as listeners in Europe and Latin America. This…
The recent death of master drummer Max Roach has prompted the re-release of one of his most famous recordings, the epic Freedom Now Suite from 1960. Roach wrote the music in the midst of the civil rights campaign, and if his searing demand for justice…
Over the years we have come to expect the unexpected from this Yeovil-born indie legend. However, no one could have prepared us for the radical departure of White Chalk; eleven stark, stripped down ballads inspired by Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Arvo Part…
Something different is on offer from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra this season as they embark upon a new series that makes concert-going incredibly easy. With a venue that could hardly be more central, a start time to coincide with the end of the…
That’s it. I’m officially breaking up with Kate Nash . I defended ‘Foundations’ long after everyone else had gone right off it, but the bathroom sink drama of ‘Mouthwash’ (Fiction - 2 stars) with its cringily self-aware opener ‘This . . . is my face’…
The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra premiered Tommy Smith’s sensational and much-expanded arrangement for jazz orchestra of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with Brian Kellock as the piano soloist at the 2006 Edinburgh Jazz Festival, and this is a…
Stan Tracey turned 80 this year, and is still going strong. Everyone does it now, but the pianist was a pioneer in setting up his own record label, Steam, in the 1970s. ReSteamed is dedicated to re-releasing classic but long unavailable recordings…
Although rock’s snootiest critics might have it that The Stereophonics are one of the most blasphemous and superannuated crimes ever inflicted on music, it’s hard to underestimate the value of giving a fanbase what they want. Certainly, the band’s…
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