Artist: Lloyd Cole Venue: Glasgow Royal Concert HallDates: 21 January 2025 One of the best festivals in Scotland is the annual Celtic Connections which showcases the best in folk, roots, world music and a whole lot more. This year was no different and heralded a homecoming of sorts for Lloyd Cole, known for his music with The Commotions and […]
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Festival: Rockaway Beach Venue: Bognor Regis, ButlinsDates: 5 January 2025 Day 3: First out of the blocks on the final day, Sunday, was Jaws The Shark. Not only were they the solo project of artist Olly Bailey, they had my favourite band name of the weekend. Indie rock with attitude, explosive guitar riffs, the occasional fuzz feedback and a sound
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Festival: Rockaway Beach Venue: Bognor Regis, ButlinsDate: 4 January 2025 Day Two: As is often the case at Rockaway Beach, gig goers will venture into the town of Bognor Regis, exploring the local area and our bracing walk along the seafront in search of an early morning breakfast certainly blew away any cobwebs from the previous night. Back at the
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Festival: Rockaway Beach Venue: Bognor Regis, ButlinsDate: 3 January 2025 Rockaway Beach turned ten years old, a special anniversary and the festival has certainly grown (up) during the past decade. It is now bigger, better and bolder. There was much chatter on various fan forums in the lead up to the weekend with people questioning whether the new purpose built
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2024 is fast fading into the background but on reflection it was a great year for music. As we move into a new year, Into Creative have a look at the best releases in recent weeks and fair to say there are some belters! So read on and do check out the tunes, we know
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Artists: The Rezillos/ The Countess of Fife/ Kirsten Adamson/ The Filthy Tongues/ Scorpio Leisure Venue: Edinburgh Voodoo RoomsDates: 30 December 2024 In an ideal world, benefit gigs would be few and far between. But we don’t live in an ideal world. All profits from this show were going to UNICEF’s Gaza Appeal for Children in Crisis. Very commendable but
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Well, we know this mix tape has taken some time to come to fruition. You see, Into Creative’s chief music writer John Welsh has went through so may iterations to get to this point, agonising over who and what to leave out. It’s been painful! Of course, it’ll probably change tomorrow but we are sure
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In 2024 we have seen Into Creative expand into gig reviews by video courtesy of Brian Davidson. We love these as they add a different take on a show that we don’t think others are covering so we are glad to bring this content to you. Anyway, no video update here but please delve into
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We are always excited when Grant McPhee posts copy to Into Creative. Partly because he has the uncanny knack of finding gems from artists that deserve to be heard but also because his love of music is utterly infectious, if Grant recommends it, it’s worth checking out. Quite how Grant then managed to whittle down
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Now, when Into Creative writers think about music, what we should write about and how we should say it, we ALWAYS refer back to George Paterson’s mantra – no shengai, make it better than your last article and sweat blood and tears, otherwise it ain’t worth doing. With his Lost in Music radio show and
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