If you're looking for something sensible you've come to the wrong place.... A News Roundup

I guess most of you will already know this, but in case it somehow passed you by Dananananaykroyd have announced that at the end of their current UK tour they'll be hanging up their boots for good. In what will be there last ever show in Glasgow, the boys will be tearing the roof off the ABC in Glasgow this Saturday night (29th). If you fancy sending one of Scotland's finest live bands off in style, then you can still pick up a ticket in advance via Synergy Concerts website. If you are planning on going along, make sure you get down nice and early as United Fruit have just announced that they will be the support for the evening. If you get the chance then you should check out the video for their current single 'Go Away Don't Leave Me Alone', it's rather good.


"As part of her "30 Before 30" list, Lisa from Last Years Girl blog is joining the list of bloggers who are putting on their own gigs, as she wants to"play too". On December the 2nd, she's booked up the Old Hairdresser's (across from Stereo) for a night of entertainment entitled 'Friday Night Speakeasy' featuring Franz Nicolay (of Hold Steady fame), Brighton-based political songwriter Chris T-T plus Glasgow's finest folk-punk singer-songwriter, Dave Hughes. Tickets for the gig are available now, although due to the size of the venue numbers are very limited so if you want to go you best be quick in snapping up a ticket.


Those lovely folk at Born To Be Wide have announced their next monthly night is going to be radio seminar featuring an array of guest speakers including the Vic Galloway, Jim Gellatly, the radio plugger Grant Crain and producer of Radio’s Scotland’s Iain Anderson Show, Stewart Cruickshank. The event will take place at Edinburgh’s Electric Circus on Thursday 3 November, if you want some more information or you would like to pre-order tickets, then just click the link.

Next Thursday, For Pete's Sake, new live music initiative are putting on their first ever gig night at Jim's Bar in the QMU in Glasgow. For their debut night they've lined Aerials Up, Young Aviators and Kevin Harper. Tickets for the gig are only £5 and it's open to both students and normal folk, if you want to book yours in advance then here's the link you need.


Right I think that's enough rambling for one post, I am going to finish up with this cracking wee video from Paisley's noisiest sons, Carnivores and their new video for their song 'Scottish Football'. The band have just announced that they'll be playing a headline gig with Marvel Heights at King Tuts and So Many Animal Calls on Sunday the 11th of December...

Fresh Meat Monday - David Hughes & The Renegade folk punk band

Would you care to introduce yourself?

I'm Dave Hughes, from the west coast of Scotland (but now living in Dundee). I play folk music, mostly solo, but when in and around Glasgow it's with my backing band, the Renegade Folk Punk Band.

How would you describe the music you make?

I describe my music as punk rock political folk music. It's basically born out of playing in punk rock bands, before switching to an acoustic guitar and performing solo. My biggest influences are Springsteen, The Clash and Mischief Brew. I try to make sure that all the songs have good choruses that folk can sing a long to, and that they tell stories to make them interesting. It's a bit political, but not in an in your face "FIGHT THE SYSTEM" type way that a lot of folk-punk can be.

How did you start out making music?

I started out playing electric guitar when I was about 15, and about three weeks after picking it up I formed my first band. We were pretty rubbish, even as a school band! AFter that I played in a punk rock band for around 3 years, it then ended when we all went to different universities and so I started playing songs solo.

What process goes into the way you write songs?

A lot of times a verse or stanza comes in to my head, which I then push as far as I can and see if I can get something out of it. Then the music comes, which is usually pretty simple since I'm not a great musician (and have next to no musical theory knowledge). I then record a simple acoustic demo which I send to the band who come up with their parts. We then meet up to play a gig and at soundcheck we see what parts work together, then the song gets played. This isn't the case all the time, perhaps 80-90% though, and it seems to work.

What can people expect from your live shows?

It all depends on the type of shows. Sometimes it's a full on party mode show, high energy songs, sing a longs and smiles all around. Other times it's more subdued, with quieter songs that I have. It's different each time, which means that the band or I don't get bored. In fact, a couple weeks ago we played a gig at Sleazys where our setlist was picked through a lucky dip. It was a lot of fun, and meant that we didn't know what was coming next, and people walked away with tat from my house!

What are you all listening to at the moment?

I'm just back from an amazingly fun and exhausting UK tour with Adam Boucher and The Dead Set, so I've been mainly listening to his music. As well as this, Gaslight Anthem, Christy Moore and Mischief Brew have been getting a lot of play.

What can we expect to see/hear from you in 2010?

We're hoping to play bigger and better shows throughout the year, and hopefully get a bit of airplay from radio. We're also supposed to be having a split cassette coming out on a downsouth label with a fantastic artist called Don't Let Paris Fool You, so I'm trying to get stuff ready for that.I'm also keen to do another UK tour this September, hopefully with the band in tow this time.

David Hughes & The Renegade folk punk band - Outnumbered (MP3)


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We're Only Afraid Of NYC

I really meant to catch these guys at Tuts a couple of nights back, sadly I couldn't convince anyone to leave Sleazys in time, useless twat that I am. Bit of a pisser on my part, on a brighter note they've put a few of their songs to download for free here.

Camera Obscura
I know you are probably sick of Christmas already (seriously when the fuck is the sodding snow going to melt), but that's still no reason to ignore Camera Obcscura's festive offering a free download of their Christmas single, ‘The Blizzard’, get it here (right click save).

Beerjacket
In case you missed this earlier in the year, the lovely Peter Kelly has now put up a copy of his Bruce Springsteen cover of 'Dancing the Dark' up to download for free on his Bandcamp page. I would strongly urge you to check this out if you haven't done so before, it's class.

Burnt Island
The Glasgow-based indie folk band fronted by the novelist Rodge Glass, have put their debut single The Moments Before/Timeless Colours' up to download for free here. If you are feeling a bit delicate after last nights festivities then this song might just help to soothe that thumping headache, lovely stuff.

Winning Sperm Party
The Scottish DIY label has very kindly put up 4 new free download EPs from Ballad of Mable Wong, Monoganon, Orzelda & Blood of the Bull, download them here.

French Horn Rebellion
Electro-pop duo, French Horn Rebellion, (Robert and David Perlick-Molinari), two brothers born and bred in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, currently residing in Brooklyn NY are giving away a free download of some of their EP 'The Chart of (Placus City) here.

Mush Records
The electronic Independant Record Label are celebrating their 10th birthday with a 'Ten Years Of Mush Records' compilation whavailable to download for free here.

Amazon
The online retailers are giving away a few free MP3's to download for free including the Local Natives, Hot Chip, Basement Jaxx and Empire of the Sun. Get downloading here.

Team Love
You'll need to register for this one, but it's more than worth as you can get yourself some freebies from Willy Mason, The Wave Pictures and Tilly & the Wall to name just a few. Sign up to Team Love here.

The Mill
You probably already know about the free gigs Miller put at Oran Mor, or the Mill as it's known for the night. What you might not know is that they record these gigs and post videos and MP3' which you can download for free. There's quite a back catalogue of songs up there now, including established bands like Frightened Rabbit, Jetpacks, Meursault, Broken Records, as well as plenty of great local bands that you've not come across yet.
If you want a good introduction to some local bands you might have read about, but never heard, then get downloading here.

Dave Hughes
The Scottish Folk Punk has just posted a new EP up to download for free, there's also a whole host of his back catalogue up there which you can still download, get it here.

Polyvinyl Records
Have posted a sampler record, 'Simple Mental Math' for you to download for free. It includes tracks by Architecture in Helsinki, of Montreal, Japandroids and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. Click here and use the password 'MATH'.

Help Ma Boab, It's The Weekly 62-Word Review #1

Ah yes, so it is the first in our series of 62-word reviews, where I attempt to review whatever you feel like sending us in 62 words or less. This means if something is really bad I can just say 'It's shit' and get away with it. Oh, and before you ask, the reason I chose 62 is that it rhymes with 'review'. Also, Peenko chose the name ('Help Ma Boab...') and I have no choice but to go with it. And away we go...

Dave Hughes - Sinners and Saints album
A slow start but picks up on second track ‘The Sinners and The Saints’. Reminiscent of Flogging Molly with more than a hint of The Clash with shades of The Waterboys in the vocals. If only they were in tune, but then again that wouldn’t be punk would it? ‘The Sinners And The Saints’ is the standout track. Decent album, nothing spectacular.

Download it here.

The Morgue Party Candidate - Good Morning, Good Night EP
TMPC crash in under a swathe of delay sounding like the poppy lovechild of Editors and The Xcerts on ‘Animal Dance Party’. More of the same on second track ‘Good Morning, Good Night’ (although with less of the Editors) before degenerating into pulverising metal in places on ‘Iron & Thieves’. Good stuff, with definite potential to be excellent in the future.

The Morgue Party Candidate play Stereo tomorrow night (8th October) with The Macabre Scene. (I'll be there. Feel free to come talk. I'm not telling you what I look like though, you'll just have to ask everyone there 'Are you Boab?')

Kid Canaveral - Left and Right EP
Cracking wee EP this. ‘Tis very short, at only around seven and a half minutes. ‘Left and Right’ is a frantic pop thrill, whilst ‘Long In The Tooth’ is more akin to some of King Creosote’s more recent material. The highlight is ‘Stretching The Line’ which fuses folk pop with electro drum beats and Radiohead-esque vocals. An excellent, diverse collection of songs.

The EP is released on 19th October.

Boab xx

FIN.