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DIY music promoters Cry Parrot turn 5
26 Apr 2012
Auntie Flo, Dam Mantle, Sacred Paw, Silk Cut and more are on the line-up their birthday party
In recent years, Cry Parrot has played a major role in nurturing Glasgow’s vibrant music scene. To celebrate the music promoter’s fifth birthday, the fervently eclectic independent promoters are holding a party at The Glue Factory, featuring Auntie Flo…
The Sunshine Underground - King Tuts Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow, Mon 16 Apr
26 Apr 2012
Energetic indie-electro-rock from the Leeds trio
There's something different about The Sunshine Underground. Maybe it's their strange mix of electronica, grimy bass and echoing vocals. Maybe it's their somewhat unorthodox recording methods (they once put drummer Matthew Gwilt in a tent to get a 'big…
Exposure: Friends
25 Apr 2012
The Brooklyn hipster quintet make disgustingly cool indie post-punk-funk
The List makes two predictions with regards to this fresh Brooklyn indie post-punk-funk ensemble. 1) They’re going to be the sound of many people’s summer, and 2) they’re going to have music journos punning furiously on their sitcom namesake. They’re…
Walter Scott Prize 2012 shortlist announced
23 Apr 2012
Andrew Miller, Alan Hollinghurst, Barry Unsworth, Sebastian Barry, Patrick DeWitt and Esi Edugyan
The shortlist for the 2012 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction was revealed earlier this month at the programme launch for the Borders Book Festival in Melrose. The contenders for the £25,000 prize, the largest annual literary prize awarded…
Eat, sleep and breathe: Cate le Bon
23 Apr 2012
Cardiff’s answer to Nico shares her tour habits with us
What time is breakfast? I am yet to find out. Tea or coffee? It’s a delicate mix of coffee in the morning followed by the relentless drinking of tea until bed. Smoking or non-smoking? Non, unless I fancy it. Sweet or savoury snacks? Savoury will…
Emeli Sande - Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow, Tue 10 Apr 2012
23 Apr 2012
Ballsy, multi-genre songwriting overcomes any X Factor endorsements
The fact that an artist has been given the stamp of approval by Simon Cowell would be a sign to many that we should run quickly in the other direction. Leave your valuables. Forget your loved ones. Put on your own oxygen mask first and get the heck out…
The Just Joans - Buckfast Bottles in the Rain
23 Apr 2012
Underwhelming concept album from the indie-poppers
(weePOP!) Naming themselves after a notoriously annoying tabloid columnist might be mistake number one, but it isn’t the worst of The Just Joans’ crimes. Claiming to have created an ‘audacious artistic undertaking’ of Bowie and Zappa-like proportions…
Wickerman festival 2012 line-up announced
18 Apr 2012
Scissor Sisters, Texas, The Levellers and Mike Skinner on Scottish festival bill
The official line-up for the 2012 Wickerman Festival has been announced, with New Yorkers Scissor Sisters will headline the Summerisle stage on Fri 20 July, and Scottish favourites Texas headlining the same stage on Sat 21 July. Scissor Sisters are…
Madonna - MDNA
18 Apr 2012
Album with producers Benny Benassi, Martin Solveig and William Orbit
Kudos to 53-year-old Auntie Madge not for delivering a classic album, but for having the sheer brass she-balls to turn out a record that’s as clubby, sexy and designed for the dancefloor after midnight as any she’s produced. A nod and a wink to naughty…
Jesus H. Foxx - Endless Knocking
18 Apr 2012
Long-awaited debut admirable in perfectionism, but feels laboured
(Song, by Toad) ‘I’ve waited two bloody years for these muppets to finish this album,’ writes Song, by Toad boss Matthew Young in an amusingly frank note accompanying Edinburgh seven-piece Jesus H. Foxx’s debut. We’ve shared his frustration in…
Cate Le Bon - Cyrk
18 Apr 2012
Brilliantly textured slice of Welsh psychedelic folk genius
For her latest outing Cate Le Bon takes her pick of the current crop of Wales’ finest musicians, with H. Hawkline providing hypnotically undulating synth goodness, while Y Niwl’s wünderkind Sion Glynn weaves beautifully meandering melodies, at times…
Julia Holter - Tragedy
18 Apr 2012
Celestial drones, mesmeric synths, ambient noise and unearthly vocals
(Night School) Perhaps you read that album title and started hollering the Bee Gees song or god forbid, Steps. Thank the stars, then, for LA composer and minimalist pop diviner Julia Holter, who will banish your garish disco horrors with celestial…
French Wives - Dream of the Inbetween
18 Apr 2012
An astute and highly promising opening salvo from Glasgow band
(Electric Honey) What a satisfying thing it is to hear a pop song that bypasses the tyranny of the chorus and sticks to its guns with a series of ear-warming verses. ‘Younger’, the shoulder-high stand-out track from the debut collection by French Wives…
Nik Kershaw to play entire 'Human Racing' album in 2012 tour
17 Apr 2012
His UK tour will also feature material from an upcoming new album
Nik Kershaw is set to tour the UK with his band, beginning in September 2012. The Bristol-born singer/song-writer will be playing nine dates to celebrate this year's re-release of his iconic 1984 debut album Human Racing, which he will be performing…
