On Behalf of My Wife and I – King Creosote & Withered Hand
I talked about the latest Fencezine on this month’s podcast and included King Creosote’s lovely version of Withered Hand’s No Cigarettes from the accompanying CD ‘On Behalf of My Wife and I’. Unfortunately it seems this issue has now sold out, so it seems rather cruel to be writing more about it, but at least ...
The Cope Smokes Dope?: Withered Hand get weirdest review yet
Clearly I have gone wrong with my writing style. From now on I will be including a bizarre mixture of praise and personal abuse in each review. Or maybe you have to be arch-drude/nutjob Julian Cope to get away with that kind of thing. This review of Withered Hand by Cope is probably the strangest ...
Retreat! @ Bristo Hall, 16 Aug
For their second annual mini-fest celebrating local talent, the promoters of Retreat! crammed as many of their favourite bands into a single day as possible. The Skinny turned to shift work to cover this year’s event. Read the first part, by Lauren Mayberry at The Skinny’s website With the early shift at an end, Milo McLaughlin picked ...
Withered Hand – You’re Not Alone
After the rollicking full band sing-along of first EP Religious Songs, this second EP showcases the more reflective side of Withered Hand’s Dan Willson, here performing solo with a beautifully restrained multi-instrumental accompaniment by King Creosote, who also produced. The same endearingly fragile delivery and razor sharp one-liners remain, but this time around the emotional clout ...
GOOD NEWS – GOOD MUSIC!
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. Though I write/blog quite regularly about music I sometimes find it difficult to get excited about it these days, perhaps because the bands I like are getting so much positive coverage elsewhere in the blogosphere already (and on more prominent platforms than ...
Weekly (?) web-trawl – Withered Hand, Slow Club, Plan B & rather a lot more
Here’s some music stuff I’ve come across in the last week or so that I think deserve a bit of attention, and rather than expecting people to keep up with my posts on Facebook, Twitter and the like, I thought I’d try and pull them together here. It’s also an opportunity to give a shout-out ...
Fence Homegame 6 – Video Diary (some very selective personal highlights)
Yes I have finally experienced the Fence Homegame in Anstruther and it was well worth the wait. The above video diary shows a few of the bands we saw, a lot of which have already featured on the podcasts. I only had very limited space on my wee digital camera so didn’t manage to capture everything, e.g.Viking ...
Jeffrey Lewis & Friends, Henry’s Cellar Bar, 28th November 2008
Jeffrey Lewis had just played a gig with Jarvis Cocker to celebrate 30 years of Rough Trade up the road at new venue The Picturehouse (used to be ned knife crime magnet Revolution). Those aware of his secret gig afterwards in tiny venue Henry’s Cellar Bar alongside sets by Stanley Brinks, aka Andre Herman Dune, ...
Our Ladies of Sorrow/Major Matt Mason USA
Halloween gifts from Russ Abattoir (censored version) I find it hard to get to as many gigs as I’d like these days. I work from 7am to 3:30pm which isn’t really conducive to mid-week socialising, and after reviewing gigs for a few years, a good few of them being pretty dire, I think I’ve burnt ...
Podcast 2 Featuring Errors, Withered Hand, Cheer and Paul Hawkins)
Podcast 2 (featuring Errors, Withered Hand, Cheer and Paul Hawkins) Inspired by the cosmic concept album of the same name by pioneering producer Joe Meek, this brand new monthly column will highlight a selection of unique and essential tracks by groundbreaking artists from Scotland and further afield, all of which can be heard on the ...