Scottish Music Sundays: Och the Week
Now that Frankie Boyle has left the TV show of the same name, this is the only Mock the Week worth watching reading, except because it’s Scottish it’s Och The Week – what do you mean it’s offensive and reinforces lame stereotypes? In fact I feel it suggests a kind of bittersweet resignation about ...
Latest on The Bowery, Edinburgh
Hey all, After an amazing year in our Edinburgh basement, the Bowery has decided it is time to emerge, chrysalis like, into the real world. As of December 14th, we will not longer be running in the basement of the Roxy. We’ve decided that with things changing in the running of the building, it ...
Random Reading List – Tuesday 10th November 2009
Hello to you! There’s loads of stuff this week, so hopefully there’s at least one or two articles that you’ll find useful/interesting/entertaining. Oh, and congratulations to Cybraphon (and Found) for winning a Bafta! What Is Escapism? How Does It Cost Me? thesimpledollar.com CLICK, SNAP, BOOSH… Olya Ivanisevicmyportiswaspsays.com Gig review: Daniel Johnston17seconds.co.uk Daniel Johnston – Live ...
Must we say goodbye to The Bowery?
Image by posteverything.co.uk This week brought the apparent news that the people behind the Bowery, a key focal point of Edinburgh’s revitalised scene, are being told they can no longer use the venue. The above poster represents just one of the many great gigs I’ve been to there, and there’s been very many others that ...
Random Reading List – Tuesday 3rd November 2009
It’s November. Howdahelldiddathappen? I’ve been unwell and off work for several days which means I’m missing the Gothenburg Address play at the Electric Circus tonight. Whatdahelliswrongwidme? I’ve managed to weakly click on the share button for a couple of things though, go see over at my google reader shared items or below if you are visiting the ...
Blog Profile: 17 Seconds
It’s been a bit quiet on the music reviewing front round here recently, I admit it. For a blogger who reliably sticks to music and does it very well, I thoroughly recommend Ed Jupp’s 17 Seconds. He’s doing a series of reviews of classic albums at the moment entitled 33 and 1/3 and I particularly ...
A Brief History of My Creative Efforts Part 4 – Fear and Loathing on the Job-hunting Trail
Read part 1, part 2, part 3 A Novel Idea In my final year of college I also started writing lyrics and other random stuff in a bit of a creative outpouring, due perhaps to the fact that I’d kept my creativity bottled up for so long (or drowned it in a sea of booze ...
Random Reading List – Tuesday 27th October 2009
Above picture by James Christopher via my Tumblr So, as promised, more random links. Was very chuffed this week to get a mention in this splendid article by Glasgow Podcart which also bigs up a bunch other blogs I enjoy, many of which I’ve mentioned here at some point. I think each of the blogs mentioned bring ...
The Public Have Voted – The Results Are In!
A massive thank you to everyone who voted in my poll yesterday and today. The replies were very interesting, and I will definitely be taking what you’ve said into account. Having said that, the results were so diverse that it suggests that people don’t come here for only one topic – and I ...
Help! What Do You Want From This Blog?
I’m a bit confused, in case you hadn’t already noticed – and I need to know what you want from this blog, please fill out the below form (RSS and email subscribers can click here) and let me know what you’d like to see here, I will be forever grateful and hopefully you’ll get some ...