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Spiritualized, 02 ABC, Glasgow, Thu 22 Mar
3 Apr 2012
Uplifting psychedelic set from the 90s acid-indie icons
The sonic delights of indie starlets, Spiritualized receive a heroes welcome tonight, showcasing tracks from their new album Sweet Heart Sweet Light. The band also delve into their extensive back-catalogue, providing life affirming moments from their…
Lightships - Electric Cables
26 Mar 2012
Teenage Fanclub's Gerry Love album of sun-soaked, blissed-out guitar pop
(Geographic) Gerry Love might have insisted on a band name for this new project, but the sound is all Gerry. Love’s contributions to Teenage Fanclub are invariably the understated gems, and so it is here with this sumptuous, trembling collection of…
Feist, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Tue 27 Mar 2012
11 Apr 2012
Stunning concert from the Canadian alt.folkie
‘Wan, two, freee, fourr’, some gentleman gargles towards the end of Feist’s second encore. Without thinking, she laughs it off before ending on a heartbreakingly beautiful solo run of ‘Intuition’ from 2007’s The Reminder. It’s pin-drop silence…
Elle Fanning to star in film adaptation of Stuart Murdoch's God Help the Girl
11 Apr 2012
Glasgow-set musical to commence filming in June
When Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch created God Help the Girl back in 2009, he knew that he was writing a 60s girl-group soundtrack for a film that didn't yet exist. Now, after years of fund-raising and producing, a film adaptation of the album…
Quantic & Alice Russell with Combo Barbado - Look around the Corner
11 Apr 2012
Latin-infused soul-jazz collaboration
(Tru Thoughts) They've collaborated in the past, and belong to the same soul-jazzy label (Brighton's Tru Thoughts), so it wasn't such a giant leap of imagination for a full-length Latin/blues/folk collaboration between soul songstress Alice Russell…
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3 Apr 2012
Third Annual Wide Days Seminar
Following on from successes in 2010 and 2011, the informal music conference, slash industry showcase that is Wide Days returns – with seminars for those wanting to get in to the music business during the day, followed by live performances and showcases…
Loch Lomond, Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh, Sat 10 Mar 2012
3 Apr 2012
Bewitching chamber folk from Portland
For those of you wondering how the vaguely surreal, harmonic and orchestral notes of Portland’s Loch Lomond might translate to a live setting, the first minutes of their Sneaky Pete’s show would give you a fairly accurate answer: with a bold and…
RockNess 2012 hosts Hudson Mohawke at Sub Club 25 year celebration
30 Mar 2012
Dave Clarke, James Holden and Andrew Weatherall among dance picks
RockNess today confirmed not only a plethora of new acts for this June’s festival, but a whole new stage designed for hard partying aficionado’s of dancefloor devastation, all in celebration of Sub Club Sound System’s 25 year anniversary. The Arcadia…
Sinead O'Connor
28 Mar 2012
Powerfully autobiographical live show from the suede-headed nutter
One of the funniest tales in music concerns an Irish hack sent to doorstep Sinead O’Connor. The scribbler promptly vanishes then days later is tracked down to O’Connor’s Paris hotel suite: ‘Sinead and I,’ he informs his former colleagues loftily…
Florence and The Machine - SECC, Glasgow, Mon 12 Mar
27 Mar 2012
Stunning show from the 21st century diva
Has Florence Welch ever told you about the time she flew up to Glasgow on a whim to visit a friend who lives in a castle in the Highlands? The four-hour bus journey that followed – still in her pyjamas – took her through Lochgilphead, where her Scottish…
WU LYF - SWG3, Glasgow, Sat 17 Mar
26 Mar 2012
Mancunian 'kings of heavy pop' triumph over piffling technical difficulties
Since they first cropped up in the public consciousness, WU LYF have been intriguing due to the fact that no one really knew very much about them. The name (World Unite! Lucifer Youth Foundation); the image and the mystique surrounding them; was it…
Electropop duo Uh Huh Her to play Arches
26 Mar 2012
The band consists of ex-Mellowdroner Camila Grey and ex-The L Word star Leisha Hailey
Let’s get it out the way: Leisha Hailey was in The L Word. For anyone unfamiliar with the Showtime series (presumably you have been living under a rock on the outskirts of the lez community? Welcome. And get a boxset.), Hailey played quirky…
The Cornshed Sisters - Tell Tales
26 Mar 2012
Reminiscent of The Unthanks with extra dollops of pop sensibility
(Memphis Industries) A gentle debut with just enough edge and earthy Northern lilt to balance the sweetness of the bell-like vocal harmonies, Tell Tales is the work of four non-sisters from Tyne and Wear. The tales told stretch from the overtly…
Graham Coxon - A+E
26 Mar 2012
Latest lo-fi gem from Blur guitarist delivers arch and ugly meditations
(Parlophone) What need for Blur these days? While their will-they-won’t-they recorded reunion is a brand of comeback cock-teasery perfectly suited to the age of stone-bleeding revivalism, what will their eventual decision to just get on with it offer…
M Ward - A Wasteland Companion
26 Mar 2012
Americana full of understated charm
(Bella Union) M Ward is probably best known these days for being one half of She & Him, his collaboration with Zooey Deschanel, but long before that partnership he was dishing up dreamy slices of Americana like this. As the title hints at, this…
Bobby Conn - Macaroni
26 Mar 2012
Sixth album from flamboyant glam-pop weirdo
(Fire Records) Imagine if something really emotionally scarring happened to, say, Prince, something in his formative years that sent him down an altogether darker path. Now say hello to Bobby Conn, flamboyant glam-pop weirdo from Chicago with a…
Rufus Wainwright - Out of the Game
23 Mar 2012
Mark Ronson-produced album's expanded instrumentation feels misplaced
(Polydor) Releasing career retrospective House of Rufus last year and now drafting in ubiquitous producer Mark Ronson, all signs point to reinvention for Wainwright. Never one to shy away from the idiosyncratic in his operatic and multi-genre-infused…
Toro Y Moi - June 2009
23 Mar 2012
Lo-fi pop trinkets and demos from chillwave pioneer
(Carpark) Chillwave pioneer and Carolina native Chazwick Bundick follows up last year’s second release Underneath the Pine with further lo-fi pop trinkets dating back to June 2009 (hence the title), which should be stacked alongside the likes of his…
