"Teenage Fanclub"

Teenage Fanclub - Shadows

(PeMa) The Fannies’ 20-year career has been a gradual progression from joyously stomping Doc boots to comfy, worn-in slippers, and this eighth studio album is a further refinement of their jangly, harmony-laden craft. The fire in their bellies is…

Edwyn Collins and Teenage Fanclub - Mono, Glasgow, Thu 10 Sep

To anyone with an affinity for Glasgow’s indie music scene, this show was something beyond special. Simply surveying the local dignitaries in the crowd (Stuart Murdoch, Duglas T Stewart, Stephen Pastel, Adele Bethel, Jackie McKeown and more) was like…

Teenage Fanclub mark 20 years since first release with new album Shadows

It’s been twenty years since Teenage Fanclub released their first album. Mogwai guitarist Stuart Braithwaite looks back on the Scottish indie pop group that Kurt Cobain called ‘the best band in the world’ ‘I was only about 14 when A Catholic…

Lightships - Electric Cables

Teenage Fanclub's Gerry Love album of sun-soaked, blissed-out guitar pop

(Geographic) Gerry Love might have insisted on a band name for this new project, but the sound is all Gerry. Love’s contributions to Teenage Fanclub are invariably the understated gems, and so it is here with this sumptuous, trembling collection of…

Jonny - Jonny

Radiant pop songs from ex-Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci man Euros Childs and Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake

(Alsatian) Incredibly, this long-threatened collaboration between ex-Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci man Euros Childs and Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake yields zero sunshiny melodies, no gorgeous harmonies and not a trace of heartwarming quirk. None at all.

Norman Blake and Euros Childs take Jonny on tour

Teenage Fanclub and Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci members line up UK gigs

Indie fans of a certain vintage might once have daydreamed about what a collaboration between one of Teenage Fanclub and one of their Welsh equivalents Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci might’ve sounded like. Well wonder no more, because Norman Blake and Euros…

Motherwell Music Festival

The streets of Motherwell (well Motherwell Concert Hall) ring with the sound of music with a series of live gigs through August. Taking in a variety of styles from folk and jazz to rock and indie including Donnie Munro, Martin Taylor, BMX Bandits…

Project Ability

Teenage Fanclub will help launch Project Ability’s pre-Christmas exhibition at Monorail in Glasgow next month. The Glasgow band will show their longstanding support for the organisation with a short gig at the event, which takes place on Tuesday 4…

Modern Lovers

PSYCHEDELIC SOUL The GRV, Edinburgh, Fri 28 Mar It’s always nice to hear that promoters – some of them at least – don’t just book guests because they hear tills ringing in their ears. ‘I’ve always been a fan of Teenage Fanclub,’ says Modern Lovers…

Attic Lights and The Primary 5

It was only last year that Glasgow fivesome Attic Lights climbed down the stairs from the attic where they’d been honing their big guitarry sound – a power pop blend of 60s Beach Boys harmonies and gently melodic Americana – and finally stepped outside.

Wickerman Festival 2010

‘Most people don’t realise that the Wickerman film was the first ever horror musical,’ muses Sid Ambrose, the man behind the Dumfriesshire festival that bears its name. So, alongside bands like The Charlatans, Buzzcocks, Unicorn Kid and Teenage Fanclub…

Shoeshine Showcase

CELTIC CONNECTIONS The Shoeshine imprint isn’t so much a label (although it’s that too) as it is a catch-all umbrella term for any venture which Francis Macdonald has a hand in. The Glasgow-based musician, producer, manager and musical entrepreneur’s…

Summer festivals line-up announced

Here at The List, we can barely take a jaunt to the water cooler without another festival announcement popping into our inbox. At the offices of T in the Park (Fri 10-Sun 12 Jul) there’s been the usual flurry of activity. One of New York’s finest…

Exposure: Veronica Falls

Poppy tunes and dark-as-the-night lyrics feature on Veronica Falls’ first two singles ‘Found Love in a Graveyard’, and the soon to be released ‘Beachy Head’. The London-based four-piece (two boys and two girls) draw influence from shambling Glasgow…

Scotland The Great - Alternative Anthems

For a country with such a fine musical heritage and tons of songwriting talent, Scotland has piss-poor candidates for a national anthem. ‘Flower of Scotland’, ‘Scotland the Brave’ and ‘Highland Cathedral’? Really? Even worse, a poll to find an…

Ukeleles at Hitherto

Continuing this section’s strange ongoing fascination with George Formby’s lucky charms... one of our favourite independent shop/gallery/happening places is staging an exhibition of ukuleles customised by Glasgow artists as part of Celtic Connections.

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Tennent’s Mutual

Don’t worry if you’re still scratching your head at the concept of Tennent’s Mutual – the ‘experimental’ new ‘co-creative’ music initiative, which launched its first line-up earlier this month – you’re in good company, and even Tennent’s’ Senior…

Tigerfest

This year’s Tigerfest once again brings some of the most exciting Scottish acts to Dunfermline and Fife, but also branches out with gigs in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Names like Twilight Sad, Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake and Paul Haig will all be gracing…

Outsider music festival cancelled

The Outsider festival has been cancelled. The festival, which was due to be held in Rothiemurcus in the Cairngorms on the 27th and 28th June included Sharleen Spiteri, Teenage Fanclub and The Futureheads on the bill.

Yuck - Yuck

(Fat Possum/Pharmacy) With two of their members graduating from the once-hyped Cajun Dance Party, Yuck’s sound is more mature, yet still noisy and enthusiastic. In the breezy guitar pop bluster of ‘Get Away’ and ‘Georgia’ there are heavy shades of…

Records - The Plimptons

The Plimptons

INDIE Lanarkshire, so much to answer for - so it’s only right that one-time Mogwai and Teenage Fanclub man Brendan O’Hare is on hand to polish the, shall we say, raw materials presented to him by the Motherwell quartet, who keep the ‘shambling…