The fabulously flamboyant Louise Quinn, somewhat better known around these parts as the icily seductive voice behind A Band Called Quinn, invited me to see…
Quickbeam – Seven Hundred Birds from Quickbeam on Vimeo. The Mat Sheldon-directed video for Quickbeam’s debut single, “Seven Hundred Birds”. You know when you think…
THE LAST BATTLE – ‘Floored’ from Matty Ross on Vimeo. Hello. I am in Tenerife and despite my sister’s daily paranoid checks of her iPhone’s…
Last night Isle of Lewis songwriter Ali Murray, with whom I have been regularly conversing about cake since he dropped me a line to introduce…
A confession: every time I try to get my head around the same arrangement of albums into some perfunctory numerical order that’s occupying every blogger…
So we had this deal, Jack James and I, that I was going to plug his new album a couple of days too late because…
It’s easy, for those of us of an americana/folkish bent, to listen to the multitude of such-themed music from the other side of the Atlantic…
I was a bit bad to Run/Lucky/Free. They wrote to me in late September to let me know that they were about to release a…
In which my father, who possesses the finest moustache I know (now that Franz Nicolay has with incredible timing removed his), reacts with distress to…
Aberdeen Beach, last week. Not pictured: duffel coat. It’s been said by those a little more cynical than I that Last Year’s Girl doesn’t know…
Above is the video for “Girl in the Night”, the new single from Dundee’s relentlessly cheerful singalong power-poppers The Hazey Janes. No surprise these guys…
With first “proper” studio recording The White Feather Trail out this week, Scotland’s most self-deprecating songwriter and I talk controversy, greetin’ faced music and getting…
