Hinterland Night 2 – Glasgow, Various

After doing a passable impression of Bunk and McNulty the night before, a tender ELM team have spent the day interviewing bands and now just want to hear some live music. We’ve heard good things about Y’all is Fantasy Island who open up at the Arches. Again, a strong post-rock theme emerges, with dandruff-displacing riffs [...]

Hinterland Night 1 – Glasgow, Various

Hinterland kicked off for the ELM team with Trailer Trash Tracys at the Classic Grand, a venue which seemed too big for them even before the sparse attendance. It’s a deep and unmistakable truth about gig going that the smaller the crowd, the further back they will stand. It’s a learned behavior from school, I [...]

Hinterland Update

Hinterland rocked like a mutha, it must be said. We’ll be bringing you interviews with Jeffrey Lewis, the Voluntary Butler Scheme and Phantom, as well as unrivalled gig reviews from our team in the field and exclusive photographs from the Wookie, including one of Mark E.Smith that is giving us all nightmares. We also found [...]

Hinterland Reminder – Full Coverage on ELM

Yo yo yo party people. The Hinterland festival starts this Thursday and is looking very tasty indeed. We’ve been bringing you some taster interviews, but will also be offering up interviews with some of the coolest acts playing (of course!) and the most comprehensive review section about after it. Given that anything fairly alternative has [...]

Hinterland – Interview with Geordi La Force

Two of the Wookie’s first loves entwine in this latest interview; metal and Star Trek. Glaswegian rock experimentalist Geordi La Force is much admired round here for his magnificently titled song ‘The Baguette of Phil Collins’. He’s playing Hinterland and has a lot of interesting things to say, especially on the relationship between the internet [...]

Hinterland – Interview with Elks

We really hope you are enjoying this series of interviews as much as we are. It’s also heartening to know there are so many committed, talented new acts coming through. We’re particularly taken with Elks, whose ‘What hit the Ceiling’ could be the alternative song that could this year as far as we are concerned. [...]

Hinterland – Interview with De Rosa

We  first checked out De Rosa at Malcolm Middleton’s Burst Noel in December (see reviews) and were rather impressed with them. With Hinterland coming up, we were keen to chat with them and Chris from the band rather kindly took the time to answer our questions. The result is, in our humble opinion, very interesting [...]