Month: June 2008

Hey You Get Off My Pavement!

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This Sunday (june 29th) sees Mono in Glasgow put on their third annual Hey You Get Off My Pavement! mini-festival, and for the third year running, I can’t go.
I’m fairly sure I’m currently fated not to make it to any of the gigs I want to get to, since they always seem to clash with me being busy elsewhere, or by the time I find out about them, the tickets have gone. That’s no reason for you not to go, have a great time and make me feel thouroghly jealous afterwards though.

On the line up this year are Camera Obscura, the quite wonderful Foxface, Stevie Jackson from Belle & Sebastian, some Fence Collective types and more.

Tickets will set you back £18.50, which for a full days entertainment - and a barbeque! - isn’t half bad. Festivities kick off at 12pm and we’ll hope it stays dry.

More info here.

Camera Obscura - Super Trooper
Foxface - Winners/Losers

Happy Birthday To Me

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(There’s more proper posts coming, I swear)

I know you don’t care, buuuut, it’s my blog, so there
Anyway, it’s my birthday today, pushing me one step closer to being middle aged.
Anything around that I should buy? Recommendations welcome.

Frightened Rabbit

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Frightened Rabbit are four blokes from Selkirk, brothers Scott and Grant Hutchison, Billy Kennedy and Andy Monaghan.
Tons of things have been written about them, both in Scotland and beyond, since the release of their debut album Sing The Greys in 2006.
Rather than cover old ground, I’ll just add my tuppence worth by saying that they are really, really good. I’m ashamed to add that they’d slipped under my radar until I saw them supporting Sons and Daughters a wee while ago, shortly before the release of second album The Midnight Organ Fight, where they opened the show and were miles better than the second support act Black Kids.
The Pop Cop has a great interview with singer Scott Hutchison here, while JC from The Vinyl Villan has a live review here.

Frightened Rabbit Website - Myspace

Sample Songs:
The Greys - From Sing The Greys
The Modern Leper - From The Midnight Organ Fight
Behave! - Live version, available on eMusic. Original version on Sing The Greys

New(ish) Arab Strap!

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The first of two promised download only releases from one of my most favourite bands ever, Arab Strap, is now available from the Chemikal Underground Records online shop.

Titled Music From Rogue Farm, it’s a short wee thing, 11 tracks totalling 17 minutes, consisting of instrumental pieces put together for the short animated film Rogue Farm (which you can find out more about here)

It isn’t essential stuff, but for a fiver it’s a nice little rarity from a fantastic band.

You can buy it here and listen to samples too.

A Brief Diversion…

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As you will no doubt know by now Bo Diddley died on Monday. There’s a ton of information and obituaries out there should you want to know more.
Bo Diddley is obviously not Scottish and so is somewhat out of the remit of this blog, but his passing does give an oportunity to post the following:

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Bo Diddley Is Jesus
Available on Barbed Wire Kisses

Errors

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Right then, time to get started here I think. For the next week or so I might be messing around with the format a bit, but bear with me and we’ll settle into something resembling normality soon enough.

Today Glasgow’s Errors finally released their debut album It’s Not Something But It Is Like Whatever on Rock Action Records. It’s been a while since we got a release from them, not counting the single Toes a few weeks ago, so it is fair to say that this album is pretty highly anticipated round Aye Tunes Towers, especially since 2006’s How Clean Is Your Acid House? EP still gets played to death.
Unfortunatly for me HMV haven’t sent me my copy yet, so I can’t tell you if it is good or bad. My money, based on previous releases, is on good.

If you are in Glasgow you might like to note that on the 13th of June there’s a launch night for the album in Stereo. I’m planning on being there, so if you are heading along, say hi. Details and tickets can be found here.

Errors Myspace

If You Buy One Record:
At this point I’m planning on reccommending an album that you should buy, but since there’s only one out, by default I’m going to be saying It’s Not Something But It Is Like Whatever. This bit will make more sense when I post about a band with more than one album out, I swear. In the meantime, It’s Not Something… is available from some of the shops listed in the right hand sidebar and the usual download type places.

Sample Tracks:
Mr. Milk (from How Clean Is Your Acid House?)
Maeve Binchy (from the Salut! France single)