Act: The Lemonheads Venue: SWG3,Galvanizers, Glasgow Date: 9th February 2019 “Everyone likes The Lemonheads, but I’ve never met anyone who would call them their favourite band!” This is the biggest Lemonheads fan I know, lamenting and musing, as we follow quite a crowd down the long, dark,
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Band: The Wakes Venue: King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut Date: 1 February 2019 In a fitting commemoration to the 100th anniversary of ‘Bloody Friday’, The Wakes took the stage at King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut and stoked the fires in the bellies of a new generation of
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Act: Edgar Jones/ Steve Mason Venue: SWG3, Glasgow Date: 31st January 2019 Edgar Jones has long been a cherished favourite of kindred musical souls, so when he took to the road with fellow adored musical magpie, Steve Mason, it felt to me an opportunity for both to
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Act: Self Esteem Venue: Broadcast, Glasgow Date: 26 November 2018 Red – the colour of passion and of anger; attention grabbing and upfront, it has to be worn with confidence and tonight Rebecca Taylor shows us how. One half of beloved indie duo Slow Club, Rebecca is
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Act: The Tea Street Band Venue: King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow Date: 9 December 2018 The Tea Street Band are wrapping up their early winter road trip, promoting the recent LP release Frequency. The tour may have been in the closing stages by the time the
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As part of a live music experiment with my brother back in 2007 I picked up a couple of tickets to see the Rifles at the Queen Margaret Union in Glasgow’s West End. At the time I hadn’t listened to their debut album. I had heard the
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On the 3rd November 1992 Rage Against the Machine released their self-titled debut album. The 4-piece band from Los Angeles led by vocalist Zack de la Rocha unleashed a 10 track, 52 minute long masterpiece of Rap Rock / Funk Metal. Zack along with the other “Guilty
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Act: The Men They Couldn’t Hang Venue: King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow Date: 8 December 2018 It says a lot for a band that, after 35 years or so together, they still retain a creative spark to make great music and an insatiable appetite to play
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I suppose I can thank my older sister for tuning my ear towards Nirvana and their Nevermind album, released in 1991. I was lucky in that respect, being the youngest, I would benefit from the varied music tastes from the rest of my family. When my sister
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The Tea Street Band released their second studio album earlier this month. Frequency follows up on the band’s self-titled release from 2014. The four-year gap between albums definitely hasn’t made the band lose any of their edge, but just maybe they have gained a little extra swagger
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