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Remember Remember - The Quickening

Remember Remember - The Quickening

A shimmering and optimistic tour de force from Scottish composer and pop genius

(4 stars)14 Sep 2011

(Rock Action) Once upon a time there was a super electro-prog combo called Multiplies. They came from Glasgow, made like rock miscreants and then they were gone, leaving memories of marvellous live shows and the sense they were always too good to be…

An open letter from Scottish record labels

An open letter from Scottish record labels

Chemikal Underground, Rock Action and Soma on the PIAS warehouse fire

19 Aug 2011

As London faced its worst rioting in recent history, the repercussions resonated far and wide, a fire at the PIAS warehouse annihilating stock, and ultimately affecting some of Scotland’s most important independent labels. Here Chemikal Underground…

The Hot 100 2010

The Hot 100 2010 - Mark Millar, Kevin Bridges and Alasdair Gray take top 3 spots

Our annual chart of the people from Scotland being interesting, successful and creative

16 Dec 2010

The Hot 100 is a list of Scots who’ve made a sizeable creative splash in 2010. It includes musicians, artists, writers, actors, fashion designers, technological innovators, shop owners, festival directors, record label heads and one mad cyclist.

Remember Remember swells from solo set to seven-piece band

Remember Remember swells from solo set to seven-piece band

Rock Action-signed looper takes hypnotic, repetitive melodies on 5th Nov outing

2 Nov 2010

After playing a late-night, loop-heavy set at The List: 25 Years event, Graeme Ronald, aka Remember Remember is releasing his EP RR Scorpii on Guy Fawkes Night. (That’s right – Remember Remember, on the fifth of November). Since releasing his debut…

Glasgow quartet Errors embark on UK tour

Glasgow quartet Errors embark on UK tour

Explorers of the sonically literate instrumental - Errors interview

8 Oct 2010

With a celebrated new album, a UK tour with The Twilight Sad and now a headline slot at The List’s 25th birthday party, the future looks bright for Errors. They might even have a go at singing, as David Pollock discovers

Exposure - Growing

Exposure: Growing

23 Jul 2009

Unlike, say, The Lemonheads, Growing are a band with a literal soubriquet: their evolutionary noise and experimental rock exploits provoke a sense of advancing ambience, metal progression and, well, growing. They’ve recorded for Mogwai’s Rock Action…

Exposure - Desalvo

Exposure - Desalvo

18 Sep 2008

Desalvo’s sound is a furious battle between prog showmanship and math metal technicality, all drenched in black, black humour. Imagine the aural equivalent of watching as that fella in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom tears your heart out and shows…

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