Into Music Reviews: St Paul and The Broken Bones + The Americans, Glasgow Barrowland
Acts: St Paul and The Broken Bones + The Americans Venue: Glasgow Barrowland Date: 16 November 2018 “The Americans are in the building!” and that ain't just the audaciously named support band, th ...
Into Music Reviews: Hothouse Flowers at Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow
Hothouse Flowers: 6 November Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow This was something of a rescue job after my last experience of the Hothouse Flowers at Celtic Connections in 2013. The Fruitmarket show wa ...
Into Music Reviews: MC50 at O2 Academy, Glasgow
MC50: 10 November, O2 Academy, Glasgow MC5’s Kick Out the Jams is an album every record collection should have. A seminal piece of proto-punk that set the blueprint for a 1,000 other bands that fol ...
Into Music Reviews: Teenage Fanclub at Glasgow Barrowland
I’ll make it clear... I’ve had the pleasure of seeing Teenage Fanclub pushing 10 times over the years. My first ever at The Barras was seeing The Fannies on my 17th birthday (shh), when they were sup ...
Into Music Reviews: The Decemberists at O2 Academy, Glasgow
The Decemberists: 5 November 2018 at O2 Academy, Glasgow The Decemberists rolled into Glasgow to promote their most recent release, the excellent ‘I’ll be Your Girl’. Always a pleasure to spend tim ...
Into Music Reviews: Slaves at Glasgow Barrowland
Slaves at Glasgow Barrowland, 8 November 2018 Picture the scene: You are 35, you lived through the mid-to-late nineties and early noughties, and experienced all that came with it... Great music, so ...
Into Live Music: Christy Moore at The Barrowland, Glasgow
Christy Moore: 3 November 2018 at The Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow On a rainy Saturday night in Glasgow I made my way through the streets of the East End towards the Barras. The streets that had we ...
Into Live Music: Shinedown at O2 Academy, Glasgow
Shinedown: 30 October at O2 Academy, Glasgow Shinedown are one of the few support bands in the last 10/15 years that have managed to make an impression on me. First when they supported Alter Bridg ...
Into Live Music: U2 at O2 Arena, London
U2: 23/24 October 2018 at O2 Arena, London It’s impossible to have any real objectivity about a band you have followed for over 30 years and have seen over 20 times so I’ll not even try. Despite en ...
Into Live Music: Kris Drever & Boo Hewerdine at Saint Andrews in the Square
Kris Drever & Boo Hewerdine: 14 October 2018 at Saint Andrews in the Square Kris Drever & Boo Hewerdine are stalwarts of the UK folk and singer-songwriter scene. Kris has won multiple awar ...