Creative Types #4: Peenko
For anyone who doesn’t already know, Peenko is a prominent Scottish music blogger (real name Lloyd) who is a very busy chap. You’ll find out all the stuff he’s involved in through the course of our conversation but the most timely one is the gig he’s putting on with fellow blogger Jim from Aye Tunes ...
Creative Types #3 – Euan McMeeken of The Kays Lavelle & The Steinberg Principle
The third in this series of interviews is with another multi-talented creative type, Euan McMeeken, who is not only lead songwriter and vocalist in Edinburgh band The Kays Lavelle (who have just released their debut album Be Still This Gentle Morning on the Wiseblood Industries label), but also writes the excellent blog The Steinberg Principle, ...
Creative Types #2: Dylan Matthews of Blueback Hotrod & Song, By Toad
The second in this series of interviews is with Edinburgh-based photographer and blogger and now radio DJ, Dylan Matthews. Dylan’s photos have been published by an impressive list of publications including BBC Online, The List, The Sunday Herald & The Skinny, and he is of course an integral part of the Song, By Toad team. ...
Creative Types #1 – Bartholomew Owl (from eagleowl)
This is the first in a new series of interviews with people who are doing great things creatively both locally and hopefully a little bit further afield too. First up we have the ridiculously likeable Bart from eagleowl, the stunning Edinburgh band whose music has genuinely moved me to tears on more than one occasion. ...
I Hear a New Gramophone – an interview with Sean Michaels
This is an interview from November’s issue of The Skinny Magazine which can also be found on their website here. It was loosely timed to coincide with the release of a wee bundle I’ve put together for www.tentracks.co.uk which will be available in late November – more info on that will be coming soon. The artwork ...
Will Oldham aka Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy
With 17 albums recorded over 15 years under various pseudonyms, Kentucky-born Will Oldham has established himself as one of the most prolific and talented songwriters in alternative music today. That’s despite starting out as an actor – at the age of 17 he starred in John Sayles’ 1987 film Matewan, but found the accompanying pressures ...
Jason Lytle from Grandaddy
From the archives – an interview with Jason Lytle around the time he was releasing the final Grandaddy album “Whatever Happened to the Fambly Cat”. Most people agree it wasn’t their best but I still think it has its moments. Now he’s back touring again and is due to release new music under his own ...
Paul Vickers (Dawn of the Replicants, The Leg)
At the end of January Edinburgh’s indie music stalwarts SL Records are releasing an album called ‘Releasing The Impossible’ – one of the most bizarre, twisted pieces of audio you’re ever likely to hear. Anyone who’s encountered either Dawn of the Replicants or his work with The Leg won’t be surprised to found out that ...
Edwyn Collins/Orange Juice
From The Skinny Magazine, December 2008 Celebrating Orange Juice’s recent reunion to collect a lifetime achievement award, Milo McLaughlin charts their legacy and speaks to frontman and solo artist Edwyn Collins. Scottish music industry shindig The Tartan Clef Awards, held last month in Glasgow’s Old Fruitmarket, was notable not only because of a brief on-stage ...
King Creosote & The Pictish Trail – Fence Collective special
illustration by Leigh Pearson From small beginnings, Anstruther-based label Fence Records has deservedly grown in stature over the last decade or so, and now boasts a dedicated fanbase and an impressive roster of artists whilst very much retaining its down-to-earth DIY ethos. I caught up with label lynchpins Johnny Lynch and Kenny Anderson, otherwise known ...