Whippet out – Glen Matlock And The Philistines, King Tuts Glasgow

Hardcore bible-thumper and fourth dimension punk purist Howlin Whippet donned his cape and strode out looking for justice. He found a punk icon who can still go…. It’s not often you get to be in the same small room as a bona fide living legend, but tonight in KTWWH, a small crowd are in the [...]

Band of Horses – Academy, Glasgow

If the last few years have taught us anything, it’s that nobody knows anything. As the world spins into financial meltdown, nobody seems to know how it happened or what to do about it. The same could be said for Band of Horses career. Record companies and radio planners do not credit the great British [...]

Whippet out – Heaven 17, Glasgow ABC

The Whippet goes out searching for redemption in the strangest places. he finds some in the form of electro-pioneers Heaven 17. Once more the intrepid Whippet drags his weary bones out in the wintry Glasgow night. This, I have to say, is more at the behest of Mrs Whippet who has something of a penchant [...]

Titus Andronicus – Oran Mor, Glasgow

Vespertine checks out the US alt.rockers who have been compared to Bright Eyes. No pressure there, then. Is Monday the new Friday? No. But for one punter it is. At the front, a bespectacled chap named Scott makes an impassioned plea for his fellow gig goers to move down beside him, pogo more and “become [...]

Glasgow gig alert – Ólöf Arnalds

Anybody all dressed up but nowhere to go this weekend? Well, you could do worse than dusting down the gladrags and checking out Icelandic singer-songwriter Ólöf Arnalds. She plays the Captain’s Rest in Glasgow on Saturday night. Her gorgeous take on Icelandic folk is well worth an hour of your time. Here she is performing ‘Klara’ [...]

Hockey/Epic 26 – Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh

Live music is a visual as well audio experience. Indeed, it was the tension between balancing the two elements which nearly did for the Stones in the 80s, with Keef perturbed at what he felt was Jagger’s over-reliance on elaborate props. The two must work in harmony or your brain can’t properly process what is [...]

Vigo Thieves – Glasgow, ABC2

Scotland is an odd place. It’s not the biggest, but large parts of it are empty and almost unspoiled, as the original inhabitants of the place appeared to pick around twenty locations around the whole country as designated living areas and have since just built upwards on those. This creates the fairly unusual situation where [...]

ELM Presents – Fram

ELM Presents kicks off in May with a show at Glasgow’s 13th Note. Headlining will be Scots post-rockers Fram, whose debut This is How We Live Now was one of 2008′s best kept secrets. We talked to frontman Scot van den Akker about all things music: ELM Presents – we’re excited; how are you feeling [...]

Modest Mouse – Glasgow ABC

There are some bands who exist in a world of their own. Sometimes it is a world of their own creation, be that through conscious decision or simply through massive sales and status. In the case of Modest Mouse, it’s down to many things but the inescapable truth is a basic one; they just don’t [...]

Chairlift – The Arches, Glasgow

There are celebs that everybody knows one thing about. Fern Britton? Gastric band. Leslie Grantham? Murdered a taxi-driver. Sarah Miles drinks her own piss. No need to know anything more. Chairlift will be known, on the evidence of this show, as the band who had that one song on an iPod ad once and nothing [...]

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