maybe it’s about liberation, or having a really cool record collection;

Lis: Writer - Photographer - Muso - Traveller - Waffler. Baked goods, Springteen and excellent shoes. Famous on the internet since 1999. Last Year's Girl is not a music blog, although you wouldn't believe that from the way I carry on. So if you've got something you think I should hear, get in touch!

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If only your scope of musical interest stretched as far as your mouth... Do us a favour and stop writing about music, keep writing the man-hating.
- Bruce Hotchkies, Scottish New Music Awards

25/05 Scottish Fiction Presents Aye Tunes vs Peenko: The Spook School, Garden of Elks, Colin's Godson @ Broadcast, Glasgow [tickets]
28/05 Fucked Up, Titus Andronicus @ SWG3, Glasgow [tickets]
28/05 Deap Vally @ Oran Mor, Glasgow [tickets]
29/05 Turning Plates, Sarah Hayes @ The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow
31/05 Quickbeam album launch with Fake Major @ Govanhill Baths, Glasgow [tickets]
01/06 Jeffrey Lewis and Peter Stampfel @ Mono, Glasgow [tickets]
02/06 Marnie Stern, Sky Larkin @ Broadcast, Glasgow [tickets]
05/06 Ben Marwood, Dave Hughes, Mark McCabe @ Pivo, Edinburgh
06/06 Fair Ohs @ Mono, Glasgow
07/06 Dave Hughes & the Renegade Folk Punk Band @ O2 ABC2, Glasgow [tickets]
07/06 Half Man Half Biscuit @ O2 ABC, Glasgow [tickets]
09/06 Tegan and Sara @ O2 ABC, Glasgow [tickets]
13/06 Algernon Doll album launch with Where We Lay Our Heads, Lovers Turn to Monsters, Now Wakes The Sea @ 13th Note, Glasgow [tickets]
14/06 Chris Devotion & the Expectations (opening for Ultrasound) @ King Tut's, Glasgow [tickets]
17/06 The Breeders @ O2 ABC, Glasgow [tickets]
18/06 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E-STREET BAND @ Hampden Park, Glasgow
21/06 Scout Niblett @ Broadcast, Glasgow [tickets]
23/06 The Twilight Sad, Meursault @ Oran Mor, Glasgow [tickets]
29/06 Scottish Fiction Presents Aye Tunes vs Peenko: Jo Mango, Siobhan Wilson, Julia & the Doogans @ The Roxy 171, Glasgow [tickets]
01/07 Blondie @ Clyde Auditorium, Glasgow [tickets]
05/07 The Gothenburg Address @ Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh [tickets]
10/08 Kid Canaveral, Ballboy @ Liquid Rooms, Edinburgh [tickets]
12/08 Patti Smith & Tony Shanahan @ Oran Mor, Glasgow [tickets]
20/08 Regina Spektor @ O2 Academy, Glasgow [tickets]
12/09 Heartless Bastards @ O2 ABC2, Glasgow [tickets]
23/09 Jim Lockey & the Solemn Sun @ King Tut's, Glasgow [tickets]
13/10 Tunng @ Broadcast, Glasgow [tickets]
18/11 Ane Brun @ Oran Mor, Glasgow [tickets]

NB: This is not a "listings" column - rather it combines details of events I am attending with those of Scottish events I would attend had I boundless energy and time. Everything posted comes with my personal stamp of FUNTIMES APPROVAL.