Some of you might have noticed a distinct lack of a We've Got It Covered post on Saturday, as I am sure that most of you will already know I was up at T in the Park with Randolph's Leap. Fuck me that was a trek and half, I ended up getting our van well and truly stuck in the mud, which in turn ended up with me joining the AA in order for them tow us out. Normally at festivals I piss my money away on over-priced beer and rank rotten burgers, signing up for breakdown cover wasn't something that I ever imagined doing in a rainy field in Balado. Rather than bore you with how muddy it was, here's a video of Randolph's Leap who kicked things off on the T Break stage.
The good folk from Detour launched the second episode of their new TV show last week. This months episode features live footage from Midnight Lion, Vukovi and Honeyblood. A live session from Hector Bizerk's Louie and Stanley Odd's MC Solareye, an interview with Twin Atlantic's Sam Mctrus. Plus a 'blink and you'll miss it' cameo from my good self, which I pray to go my mother never has to witness!
Mind how I mentioned that Zed Penguin had a cracking new single out, well here's a cracking wee video to go with it!
I haven't mentioned me for all of two seconds, so I might as well do so again. If you check out this15 minute "Propaganda edition" of the Glasgow Flower Show mini documentary, you can catch me rambling pish for a few minutes. There are some good bits in there that make it worthwhile. You might want skip my bits though, or at least look away from the screen until I am gone. And cover your ears for that matter.
Last but not least here's a wee video of Campfires in Winter playing on the roof of a pub in Inverness. As you do. If you are out and about tomorrow night then you can catch the boys playing live at the Art School in Glasgow with Vasa and Hot Jupiter.
Regular visitors to this site will already be aware that I have a friend in the US by the name of Ryan who shares a lot of Jetpacks/Frabbit/Twilight Sad live recordings to share with you guys. The number of high quality bootlegs that he's sent my way is pretty damn phenomenal, now he's gone one better and sent me over a video of a full We Were Promised Jetpacks set recorded in Seattle back in 2010. The video was recorded in HD and it sounds fucking ace, anyway here it is in all of its glory, enjoy...
What do you do when you have loads of ace videos to share, you lump them all in one post of course!
First up we have up and coming Edinburgh outfit, Letters and their video for 'Older Motion Pictures', the title track of their debut EP which is out later this month.
In case you somehow managed to avoid all of our plugging, the label that I co-run, Olive Grove Records has emerged from hibernation this week with the release of a new EP from The Son(s). The EP is called Leviathan and here's the video for 'If I Hear You Talk Apostrophes Again..' the most poppy song on it.
Glasgow based punk trio, PAWS are set to put out their first release on Fat Cat Records this month with their Misled Youth EP which comes out on the 14th of May on limited edition cassette. You can catch the boys supporting Bleached at Sleazy's on the 20th of this month.
I don't know about you, but I am pretty damn excited about the forthcoming album from Michael Cassidy. Ever since I was introduced to him by Sean who recorded all of the Peenko Sessions, I have found myself raving on about just how great I think he is. What with recently appearing at WideDays, and forthcoming gigs at goNorth and the next Scottish Fiction Presents gig, it's great to see that I am not the only one who's raving about him. If you don't believe me then check out his new new video for his song Till You.
And to finish off this post I have the new video from Barbarossa for his haunting new number 'Butterfly Plague' which is taken from his forthcoming EP which is the last release in the latest series of Fence Records Chart Ruse E.P. series.
What with Mothers Day and the cup final earlier in the day I have almost managed to spend a whole day without logging into blogger, but alas I just can't resist the temptation of going online. So I have decided that today is as good a day as any to post up some videos that I have been enjoying this week...
First off we have a dems new single Inner O, which is released on 2nd April 2012 on Bad Life Recordings...
Next up we have a the new single from Fife outfit, Ambulances, their double A side single Feeling Sick is out now on Bandcamp and they've made this rather nifty video to accompany it.
Where We Lay Our Heads new single, "Bury You", comes out tomorrow, to celebrate they're playing a headline show at the Captain's Rest on Wednesday night with support from Letters and Cafe Disco.
New Scottish DIY label, Comets & Cartwheels have announced something a bit a special to celebrate the the release of their first release with Quickbeam. Choosing to do something a bit different to the norm, the single launch is going to be held on a ship, yes a ship. The Tall Ship in Glasgow to be exact, support on the evening comes from their label mates Endor plus there will also be an acoustic set from Washington Irving. Further details on the gig can be found here. To get yourself in the mood check out the excellent new video for the single, Seven Hundred Birds below...
Lastly, rather than post up yet another music video I just wanted to point you in the direction of a new project that the State Broadcasters are involved in. For their forthcoming single, Trespassers, they've managed to rope in the award winning director, Jessica Ashman, but they need your help. All you need to know can be found here, or you can just watch the video below...
As I was out and about last night I am running a wee bit behind with this weeks Friday Freebies (I'm currently getting it all drafted up). In the mean time here's a couple of ace new videos from Withered Hand and the Twilight Sad for you to enjoy...
At the start of the year I decided to stop posting 7 days a week as to be honest I thought I needed to at least take one day off a week from blogging, plus I thought it only fair to save you all from my ramblings for one day. Which now leaves me with a load of gigs and bits of news and nowhere to post them, hence the randomness of these kind of posts, I am still sticking to my guns though, I'll manage one day off one week if it kills me. As I am heading up to Inverness this week, things might be pretty quiet round these parts as I plan to actually be out seeing some bands instead of sitting in front of my laptop. So there will be no Friday Freebies as I quite fancy enjoying myself instead of scouring about for free downloads. If I get the chance though I might try and type up a daily diary of what I've been getting up to. Although that might be wishful thinking as I doubt my hungover ramblings will be of much interest to any of you and trying to write posts whilst intoxicated just leads to massive regrets, much as in the same way that you shouldn't be allowed anywhere near eBay when drunk. Anyway here are some gigs and bits of news that I think are worth sharing with you all...
I must admit I do like it when folk I know and respect suggest I check a band or an artist out, as it does make my job a lot easier. Earlier this week, Phil from Elba Sessions got in touch to suggest that I check out an artist called Mike Nisbet, who they had recently recorded a podcast with. What with being out most nights this week, I only got round to listening to the session yesterday but even after only a handful of listens I must I am mightily impressed and plan to try and find out more. You can make your own mind by listening to one of the session tracks below, if that tickles your fancy then get yourself along to the Ivy Bar in Glasgow on Thursday night (9th June) where Mike is having his official album launch with support from Jill Leighton. Further details can be found here.
Lovers Turn To Monsters, aka Kyle Wood, launches his new album, 'Beyond Glasgow Howls' on the 16th of June at Slouch in Glasgow. Support on the evening comes from Where we Lay our Heads and So Many Animal Calls, also the gig itself is free. Lovers Turn To Monsters will be back in a few weeks time to take on some Fresh Meat action.
Another band having a wee launch night are the fabulously named, Mummy Short Arms, who release their debut single 'Cigarette Smuggling' through Flowers In The Dustbin. The launch night is this coming Friday (10th) Stereo in Glasgow. Support on the evening comes from Louise McVey & Cracks In The Concrete and Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5, tickets can be purchased in advance using the following link. I know I am always banging on about wanting to hearing something original, well I guess it's safe to say that this like nothing else that's going on in Scotland at the moment. So if you're looking for something that little bit different then look no further.
If you're looking for more of a fix of Scottish music and indie/alternative tunes then you're in luck as up and coming Edinburgh's internet based radio station, Prestongrange Radio have a new weekly show called The New Scottish Gentry. The show which is on every Tuesday from 8-10pm aims to promote the best in Scottish alternative music. You can find out more about the show on their Facebook page.
I am going to round this post off with a video from Peenko favourites, we're only afraid of NYC, who seem to have been away for ages. It's great to have them back, and it's even greater that they've come back with an awesome new tune and a video to go with it too. Nice to have you back boys, don't go disappearing off like that again though...
Thursdays are always a bit of a quiet day on the blog, I guess most folk have much better things to do than read my waffle. Since things are a bit slow, then I guess it justifies me using this time to post a few videos that I have been enjoying.
First up we have the new video for 'Anti Climb Paint' by FOUND.
Continuing on with another Chemikal artist, we have the quite stunning video of 'The Copper Top' by Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat.
And to finish us off we have a new video from Sons & Daughters
See I did warn you that was going to be a bit of a lazy post :
Earlier this evening I had the great pleasure of finishing up slightly earlier from work to nip along to Love Music in Glasgow to catch French Wives playing a wee instore in support of their new EP 'Feel Safe Small ' which came out today. This in turn reminded me that I had meant to post up the video to 'Covered in Grace' to share with you all, so here it is in all of it's glory
It was also pointed out to me that I missed one of the tracks from the session that Mogwai did for 6Music on Friday there, which I have now fixed. Sorry about that, but they missed it off the track listing on the website, that's my excuse and I am sticking with it. Anyway, here's a video from the session that they recorded for Vic Galloway last month.
