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Wake the President - Zumutung!

Wake the President - Zumutung!

Harder, more mature songwriting on Glasgow duo's second album

(3 stars)15 Nov 2011

(We Can Still Picnic) An improvement from their first album You Can't Change That Boy in 2009, Wake the President have taken a harder, more mature songwriting approach on new album Zumutung!. Twin brothers hailing from Glasgow, Erik and Bjorn…

Labels of Love: Say Dirty Records

Labels of Love: Say Dirty Records

29 Apr 2010

Advancing the DIY credo and cultural fetishism of landmark indie empires like Cherry Red, Creation, Fast Product and – particularly – Postcard, Glasgow’s Say Dirty has celebrated the sound of young Scotland (and beyond) since 2006. It’s run by identical…

Wake the President - You Can’t Change that Boy

Wake the President - You Can’t Change that Boy

(2 stars)5 Mar 2009

POP Hard to know whether those ‘Smiths to reform’ rumours would hurt a band like Wake the President. Should Marr and Morrissey eventually kiss and make up in public, there would be no point in going anywhere near such newfangled janglepoppers, yet…

West End Festival

West End Festival

5 Jun 2008

Best for al fresco frolicking There is of course more to the West End Festival than Scotland’s Mardi Gras (pictured), but the impact of 500+ musicians and costumed revellers stopping traffic on Byres Road (Sun 15 Jun) is not to be sniffed at. Propping…

Wake the President

Glasgow School of Art, Saturday 5 May

(4 stars)10 Apr 2008

There seems to be two video cameras and – at least – three photographers trained on the stage throughout Wake the President’s set. Such fastidious attention would typically be seen as overzealous outwith the upper echelons of Glasgow’s musical…

Singles & Downloads

21 May 2007

(Picture: Caz Mechanic) It can be with some trepidation that one delves into the fortnightly sack of singles and when the first out proves to be the charming ‘Cupid’s Revolution’ (Big Toe’s Hi-fi, 3 Stars), Barba Poppa Choppa ’s super-cheeky re-rub…

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