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 Stone magazines’ near 50 year history but I’m afraid his years on the road, scribbling about Led Zep and the Eagles came […]
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…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 Ellis’ third album release in as many years, and was conceived in the heat of the historic, explosive Spring and Summer of 2017. The narrative captures the
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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 the heart of our Dear Green Place, there is no need to dust down your ground sheets, tent poles or sleeping bags.
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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 entering the veteran stage U2 are still one of the greatest live acts around. Making massive arena and
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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 awards for both his solo output and for material released either with his band Lau or in collaboration with other musicans, such as
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A basement bar on a cold Monday evening and I’m with my oldest friend as we retrace some familiar steps. On any given Friday, Waterloo Street in Glasgow is a bustling centre of rebranded bars and restaurants filled with office block fodder, catching a wee taste of something before heading back home to dream of
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Mono – 3 October 2018. Classic Grand, Glasgow Japanese four piece Mono brought their own blend of post-rock instrumentalism to Glasgow last night. Although the band is now three part Japanese and one part American with the addition of drummer Dahm Majuri Cipolla who replaced original member Yasunori Takada who left in December of last
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Many people did not know what to expect upon the release of Paul McCartney’s eighteenth studio solo album, Egypt Station. However, the former Beatle and Wings star did certainly not disappoint which resulted in him gaining his first US Billboard No.1 chart topper since 1982’s Tug of War. The album is musically adventurous and is
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Smoke and Dreams Playback and Q&A The Admiral Bar, Glasgow – Monday 24th September 2018 This was only the second time I’d been to an event like this. A playback of an album and then discussion by the songwriters about the inspiration, mechanisms of writing and finally the making of the album. Add a large
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Fish – Queens Hall, Edinburgh. September 22nd 2018 It is sadly the start of the long goodbye from Fish. 2019 will see him release his 11th and final solo album, Weltschmerz, before setting out to end 4 decades of music with one final tour. Tonight though was a chance to celebrate Fish in a rare
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