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 ...
10 Reasons Why I Love Cameron Crowe’s ‘Almost Famous’
What do I love about Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous? To begin with ... everything. Cameron Crowe, teenage rock scribe turned adult film maker. To date, still the youngest ever staff writer in Rolling ...
Nick Ellis Releases New LP – Speakers’ Corner
...the fundamental endeavour of freedom of speech, is to galvanize another to think for oneself...” - An unidentified University Lecturer, Liverpool Transport Strike, 1911 Speakers' Corner is Nick El ...
Into The Music Vault – TRNSMT 2018
Chasing Rainbows in the Company of Strangers Martin Donaldson looks back on TRNSMT 2018 As far as music festival experiences go, TRNSMT is one of the more agreeable. Held on Glasgow Green, in th ...
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 ...