Slow Club

Travis and The Wombats set to headline Belladrum 2012

Frightened Rabbit and We Are Scientists also appearing

8 Mar 2012

Travis and The Wombats have been announced as headliners for this year's Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival. The Wombats will headline on Fri 8 Aug while festival favourites Travis will close the show on Sat 4 Aug, in what will be their only Scottish…

Music-themed Christmas parties round-up

Festive shindigs on offer from Song, By Toad, Phantom Band, James Yorkston, Fence and more

13 Dec 2011

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas in Scotland’s indie village without a bunch of our favourite bands getting together to chip in for mince pies and mulled wine and treat us to / inflict upon us some of their most diligently practiced seasonal covers. Yes…

Slow Club - Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Mon 19 Sep 2011

Folk rock twosome expand numbers but lose none of their charm

21 Oct 2011

Despite Rebecca Taylor’s protestations, Slow Club looked to be in reasonable shape considering they spent the previous night out with Aidan Moffat in Glasgow. ‘It was like an Indiana Jones film before I went to bed,’ recalled Charles Watson ruefully…

Slow Club - Paradise

Celestial landscape of indie doo-wop, camp-fire folk and glimmering soul

24 Aug 2011

(Moshi Moshi) If there is a more enjoyable example this year of buoyant tap dancing than on the video for ‘Two Cousins’, then I will eat my hand-made Slow Club hat. The video’s startling choreography and the song’s nostalgic, glorious swoon-pop are…

Home Game festival - Anstruther, Fri 6-Sun 8 May 2011

The Fence festival delivers another five-star musical weekend

18 May 2011

You may have thought your childhood summer holidays were gone for good. Then you discovered Home Game and times when people were nicer, and music was to be absorbed and adored rather than just worn like a badge, and the memories came flooding back. Home…

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…

Smackvan

Roxy Art House, Edinburgh, Sun 6 Jun

16 Jun 2010

When Michael Feeney sings the lines ‘The world closed down / When we hid inside’ his opening gambit to the inaugural Edinburgh edition of Smackvan’s monthly Sunday Slow Club soirette, he might well be commenting on his band’s own shy nature. Having…

Singles and downloads - May 4th 2010

4 May 2010

Trying to be cool is often the death of decent music, so let’s avoid style mag darlings and delve into the hinterlands of good tunesmithery. First up are Glaswegian foursome Kassidy who look and sound like they’re from Big Sur circa 1972. ‘Stray Cat…

Christmas singles 2009 roundup

The Xmas Factor

2 Dec 2009

The dull predictably of The X Factor now means that some putty-faced goon will get a Christmas number one single every year from now until the apocalypse, followed in the top ten by an army of insentient reality TV drones. Yet, in the face of this sad…

The full line-up and running order for Hinterland 2009

1 Apr 2009

Hinterland is a brand new music event coming to Glasgow from 30 April - 1 May. Over 100 bands and artists will invade 15 city centre venues showcasing the best new music from Scotland and beyond. One all access ticket allows entry to all events plus a…

Singles & Downloads

11 Dec 2008

By the time you read this there will be no escaping it: the country will be brainwashed and swamped by X Factor mania, swaying in a zombified state to a bland and inspid version of ‘Hallelujah’ and I’ll have attempted to eat my own ears. Again. So…

5 Reasons To Go See - King Creosote

8 May 2008

1 He’s royalty Kenny Anderson (aka King Creosote) is a local legend responsible, along with his label Fence Records, for a renaissance of Scottish folk, lo-fi, electronica and rock. All done from a bolthole in the East Neuk of Fife. Clever, eh? 2…