Into:Music – Writer’s Choice – Best Albums of March 2019 Fat Cops – Fat Cops The origins of the Fat Cops band are as unlikely as it is remarkable. In the lead up to the 2014 Scottish independence vote, it seemed there were polar opposite and polemic
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Act: Idles Venue: Albert Hall, Manchester @Alberthallmcr Date: 3 April 2019 Confession time, I got into Idles quite late. The tail end of Brutalism and their latest album Joy As An Act Of Resistance hooked me in. I have been addicted ever since. I even have a tattoo.There,
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Film: Rise: The Story of Augustines Venue: Vue Omni Centre, Edinburgh Date: 22 March 2019 Act: William McCarthy Venue: Leith Dockers Association Club, Edinburgh Date: 23 March 2019 Back in 2014 I was skipping through a sampler disc that came with that month’s Classic Rock magazine. Generally
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Act: Embrace Venue: Barrowlands, Glasgow Date: 6 March 2019 More and more bands these days are choosing to play their most revered album in full and when Embrace announced plans to play their debut, The Good Will Out, I was quick off the mark to get tickets
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Into:Music – Writer’s Choice – Best Albums of February 2019 Big Gold Dreams – A Story Of Scottish Independent Music 1977-1989 (Cherry Red Records) This 5 CD box set from Cherry Red Records has been a long time in the planning but it’s finally here and well
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Act: Tomorrow Syndicate Venue: Nice n’ Sleazy, Glasgow Date: 22 February 2019 One of my favourite album releases last year was Future Tense by Glasgow band Tomorrow Syndicate. A meeting of many influences, but grounded in the motorik beat of krautrock with a bit of spacetronica adding
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Act: The Twilight Sad Venue: Barrowlands,Glasgow Date: 2 March 2019 If you read my review of late last year, you would understand I am a big fan of The Twilight Sad. On Saturday 2 March they were playing a sold out show at The Barrowlands, Glasgow, only
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Act: She Drew the Gun / Man and The Echo Venue: Mono, Glasgow Date: 22 February 2019 There’s an orderly but excited queue snaking around the corner from Mono and out of Kings Court, on this mild February night; it’s an unusual sight to see at this
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Into:Music – Gig of the Week The Comet is Coming at Stereo, Glasgow Thursday 28 February 2019 Space-jazz superheroes – King Shabaka, Danalogue The Conquerer and Betamax Killer – are keyboard wizard, Dan Leavers, heavy beats and percussion provider, Max Hallet and ace saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings (of
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Into:Music Gig of the week: White Denim and B C Camplight @ SWG3 Galvanizers, Sunday 17th February 2019 Austin bluesy-soul rockers, ‘White Denim’, are playing with exciting multi-instrumentalist, BC Camplight in support, on the current leg of their UK tour. This gig has a double header feel
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