ScantRegard hates most living things, yet that hasn’t stopped her becoming a T in the Park Stalwart. Here’s her guide to what you can look forward to;
It’s that time of the year again, when half of Glasgow and Edinburgh packs up and heads north to terrorise the good citizens of rural Kinross for a weekend. T in the Park is established as one of stalwarts of the ever-expanding British festival scene, and with that comes the good, bad and ugly sides of inviting 80,000 pissed Scottish people to spend time together outside the confines of a city centre.
We recently saw Indian Red Lopez at Glasgow King Tuts and were most impressed. We caught up with the guys recently to discuss life, music and shooting Bono. Amazing how often that comes up round here….
ELM brings you this weeks major news stories, taken as seriously and presented with just the right amount of gravitas as they deserve. Then again, our favourite newsreader is Tom Tucker from Family Guy, so that sort of shows where we are pitching this. That’s not a reflection on you, dear reader. Okay it is. Sue me.
Don’t say we’re not good to you. Giving you a full week to plan, here are the set-lists for this years T in the Park, Scotland’s annual gathering of neds and students. There appear to be a few clashes, sadly, but that’s always to be expected at an event of this size. Our recommendations, since you ask, are Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jane’s Addiction, The Noisettes, TV On the Radio and obviously Blur. Enjoy.
There’s a moment just before a band goes stellar when you can sense that they are ready for take-off. It’s an almost indefinable thing, a feeling in the ether that you are witnessing something special, that a band have really found the sound they have in their heads, that they are doing what they set out to do and doing it well. Tonight’s gig has that sort of feeling.
News reaches us that the Gaslight Anthem’s ‘The ‘59 Sound’ has been playlisted by Radio 1. Jo Whiley will, of course, be taking credit for discovering this great band, only two albums and an EP into their career. Finger on the pulse, that lady. Kinda bittersweet for us here at ELM, who championed the band from midway through last year, to know that they are soon to be taken away from us. It’s what we wanted, honest. When we go to gigs full of screaming kids and punters who buy their records in Asda….It’ll be great.
Ah, we’re just being snobby. Here’s a terrific live version of them doing Springsteen’s ‘I’m On Fire’.
You have to give the Hard Rock Cafe points for ingenuity. When the Glastonbury headliners were announced, they announced a three-day festival of their own and promptly booked all the acts. So after turns on the Friday by the Killers and the Saturday by Neil Young, it’s the New Jersey native who tops the bill this evening. These corporations – letting the poor little farmer do all the work then swooping in. Poor old Eavis.
A great suggestion from Vespertine. Here are the boys doing ‘The KKK Took My Baby Away’ (a Joey song about how right-wing bastard Johnny nicked his girlfriend. Honestly.)
King Tut’s when it is sold out is a funny place – an L-shaped venue that forces people to crowd into the a small balcony behind the sound desk, get crushed at the entrance, or stand in relative comfort at the far end of the stage, albeit with no hope of escape for refreshments or a pee. On this summer night, it’s also hotter than Lucifer’s slippers. In other words, it’s a bloody magic little venue. Read more »
Sing hosannas, if the Pixies have only gone and announced details of a European tour for October that includes shows in London, Dublin and Glasgow.
Frank Black and co will play two nights at the Dublin Olympia, four at the O2 Academy Brixton in London and one at the Glasgow SECC. The mini tour will be entitled the ‘Doolittle’ tour to mark the 20th anniversary of the release of that album. Ah, remember when bands used to name tours?
We recently saw Indian Red Lopez at Glasgow King Tuts and were most impressed. We caught up with the guys recently to discuss life, music and shooting Bono. Amazing how often that comes up round here….
ELM brings you this weeks major news stories, taken as seriously and presented with just the right amount of gravitas as they deserve. Then again, our favourite newsreader is Tom Tucker from Family Guy, so that sort of shows where we are pitching this. That’s not a reflection on you, dear reader. Okay it is. Sue me.
Don’t say we’re not good to you. Giving you a full week to plan, here are the set-lists for this years T in the Park, Scotland’s annual gathering of neds and students. There appear to be a few clashes, sadly, but that’s always to be expected at an event of this size. Our recommendations, since you ask, are Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jane’s Addiction, The Noisettes, TV On the Radio and obviously Blur. Enjoy.
You have to give the Hard Rock Cafe points for ingenuity. When the Glastonbury headliners were announced, they announced a three-day festival of their own and promptly booked all the acts. So after turns on the Friday by the Killers and the Saturday by Neil Young, it’s the New Jersey native who tops the bill this evening. These corporations – letting the poor little farmer do all the work then swooping in. Poor old Eavis.
Sing hosannas, if the Pixies have only gone and announced details of a European tour for October that includes shows in London, Dublin and Glasgow.