Over The Wall

Interview: Kieran Hurley on the making of Beats

Theate show set in rave era circa Criminal Justice Act of 1994

21 Mar 2012

What was the inspiration for Beats? Is it autobiographical? No, unlike my previous monologue piece Hitch, which was autobiographical, Beats is all made up. It’s a story set against the backdrop of the tail end of the free party movement in the early…

Admiral Fallow

Indie-pop-folk triple bill with Fallow, Over the Wall and Kid Canaveral

25 Aug 2011

Admiral Fallow have landed a rather good indie-pop double bill to kick them off this evening. West coast duo Over the Wall are first on, and as a result don’t have a huge audience amassed to watch them (especially considering this is a sell-out gig).

Meursault / Over The Wall / Capitals / Miaoux Miaoux

King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow, Mon 25 Jul 2011

8 Aug 2011

It's always exciting to find a new band that gets you going, you know, one that really does it for you. To have four of them on one bill is another kettle of fish entirely, one we at The List welcome with open arms on this leg of the second annual…

King Tut’s Summer Nights series of gigs

Local heroes including Song of Return and Meursault line-up for Tut's fortnight-long season of gigs

21 Jul 2011

‘Britain’s Best Small Venue’ – as voted last month by the NME but perhaps better known to Glasgow music-loving punters as plain old ‘King Tut’s’ – continues its successful run of seasonal live programmes with this month’s second annual ‘Summer Nights…

Johnny Lynch of Fence Records talks exclusively to The List about Home Game 2011

18 Apr 2011

Fence Records’ annual Anstruther-based shindig Home Game is approaching once again, offering three days of intimate musical adventures for anyone lucky enough to get their hands on one of the 400 highly-coveted tickets. ‘We’ve spent 8 years building…

King Creosote and Ballboy set for Charity Baw II

7 Jul 2010

After welcoming acts like Vashti Bunyan, Aberfeldy and Meursault last year, (meanwhile raising thousands of pounds for charity) the ‘Baw’ is back with an even bigger line-up. Acoustic folkster King Creosote will be headlining the ‘main stage’, giving…

Singles and downloads - 9th March 2010

9 Mar 2010

Perhaps it’s the cold weather making the world outside the duvet seem even less appealing, but the singles world seems to be very much of a collective one-track mind at the moment, with the latest offering from Arctic Monkeys setting a suitably filthy…

Exposure: Over The Wall

8 Jun 2009

Ben Hillman and Gav Prentice are the clever two behind Over the Wall, another aurally-efficient outfit to form on Scotland's west coast. They've just relaunched the poetically-titled 'The Rise and Fall of Over The Wall' EP with plans to record an album…

John B McKenna, We Were Promised Jetpacks and Over the Wall

3 Jul 2008

ROCK Captain’s Rest, Glasgow, Thu 5 Jun Starting with suitably hushed reverence for John B McKenna’s gentle powerhouse of a voice in an acoustic set, and ending with the squawking guitar, pounding keyboard and trumpet combo of Over the Wall, tonight’s…

Over The Wall

18 Jun 2007

NEW WORK George Peat, the new president of the Scottish Football Association, is calling for a new anthem to replace ‘Flower of Scotland’, which he described as ‘embarrassing’. But there may well be more than a few football fans who object to such a…