Weekly Round Up (09/05/10)

Monday -Fresh Meat Monday went all electro in the form of Sefiros
Tuesday -We Were Promised Jetpacks recorded live at Neumos in Seattle all thanks to my good American friend CutHere (mon the Mariners!)
Wednesday - straight in at number 14 in the world of Scots Way-Hay were Edinburgh band The Kays Lavelle. The National were also in recording a session for 6Music, their new album is really starting to grow on me after failing to impress initially. Glad I stuck with it now.
Thursday - we were back on track with our quote of one Frabbit session a week, this time it was for WEXPN (which alwasy reminds me of that film, Private Parts about shockjock Howard Stern)
Friday - You know what time it is, it's Freebies time!

news, gigs and gubbins....

I must admit that I was a bit slow on the old news/gigs front this week. I can't remember anyone emailing me stuff. If they did and I missed it, sorry!

The most exciting thing that got announced was the innaugural Fence 'Away-Days' festival, which looks fucking amazing. Sadly I won't be able to make it due to the arrival of Peenko Jnr. You can find all of the important details and the like here.

Tigerfest kicked off last week and continues on with a plethora of excellent gigs this week, all of which you can find listed below. Sadly there's no Glasgow shows and I'm too lazy/busy to make the venture east/north. If you do close to any of these places, then might I suggest you get down and show your support for some excellent Scottish music.

Edinburgh
Tonight -17 Seconds night: X-Lion Tamer/The Wildhouse/White Heath @ Roxy Art House
Tuesday 11th -TV21/Boycotts/Midas Fall @ Cabaret Voltaire.
Wednesday 12th - is this music? presents: Jesus H. Foxx / There Will Be Fireworks @ Electric Circus (White Noise night).
Thursday 13th -17 Seconds night: Chris Bradley/Dirty Cuts/Last Battle @ Roxy Art House.
Friday 14th - Martin Stephenson/Fourteenhours/The Blind Assassins @ Wee Red Bar.
Dunfermline
Thursday 20th - Ambulances/Vertis/Crayons.
Friday 21st -Fence Records night: King Creosote/Withered Hand/Rozi Plain.
Saturday 22nd- Malcolm Middleton/Spare Snare.
Aberdeen
Friday 21st - The Unwinding Hours/Katerwaul @ Tunnels (Interesting Music Promotions).

On Thursday Emma Pollock is playing an instore gig at the Apple Store in Glasgow. The event is free, and it kicks off around half six. Further detais can be found here.

Also, announced this week was the return of the Wee Tree Festival. Now into it's third year, the eco-friendly event that takes place on the weekend of the 25th-27th of June. It's still a secret as to where it's being held, but the organisers have promised that it is within an hour of Edinburgh and it will be somewhere pretty special. So far they have the following bands lined up for the event, Banna Sessions, Stringjammer, Missing Cat, Pyslent V, Ruby and the Emerlds, Mammal, Ned Zeppelin, The Spectres and The Eye of the Duck.

Early Bird tickets (if purchased before the 17th of May) are only £32, Full Price Tickets are £42. If this sounds like it could be your cup of tea, then you can find more details here.

I guess I should also thank everyone who came along to our gig Peenko vs Ayetunes gig, last Friday, I really should have had something posted up about it by now. But a combination of the wife's birthday and feeling exhausted meant that it got forgotten. I would just like to thanks everyone who came along and made the night so special. Kid Canaveral, Mitchell Museum and Campfires in Winter, I fucking love you all to bits. How the hell me and Jim will ever be able to top it I don't know. We are working on doing another one, seeing as everyone seemed to ask when it was. Provisionally we are thinking mid July, although we have arranged fuck all so far. Or asked any bands, venues to see if they are available. There is a 'wish list' though, a very fucking long wishlist. Also, to anybody we had to turn away on the night I am really really sorry, it felt very fucking shit having to turn you away. I think we'll look to get a bigger venue next time, to fit you all in (and to make sure that neither of us has to sit at the top of the stairs while the bands are on).

Weekly Round Up (04/04/2010)

Monday -I had two cracking Fresh Meat posts, Shambles Miller and Beneath Us The Waves, took the time out to answer some questions for me.
Tuesday - my planned sessions from RM Hubbert and the Last Battle both went to pot when Leith FM's internet stream went dead. So I shamelessly used the time to plug our gig with Kid Canaveral, Mitchell Museum and Campfires in Winter (if you're sick of me going on about it, prepare yourself for a fairly nauseating few weeks).
Wednesday - thing started to pick up a bit with sessions from Erland and the Carnival and an absolutely cracking session from Errors. I really need to get my finger out and but myself a copy of the album. plus even more excitingly we had one of my favourite bands Over The Wall as my ninth 'Scots Way-Hay' band. I love this band, and I hope you do too (god I sound like such a cheesy twat sometimes).
Thursday - barely a week goes by without some kind of Frightened Rabbit session, this time it was a recording of a session that they did for the Sun newspapers Biz section.
Friday - we had the usual Freebies, bloody good it was too. It's almost gotten to the stage now where I have too many things that I want to share!
Saturday - nowt happened as I was out at Hinterland (top day was had)

News, gigs, gubbins...........

In the early hours of thursday morning Vic Galloway announced on his Radio One show that the series of 'United Nations' gigs that the station has been putting on, are coming to Glasgow. The Phantom Band will be headlining the event, alongside a rather tasty bill which includes And So I Watch You From Afar, plus Chickenhawk (?) and Race Horses (?). The tickets are free, although by now I'd presume that they might well all be gone, there's no harm in trying though.

Up and coming promoters Exposure Scotland, kick off their series of April gigs with a launch night at the Captains Rest tonight (4th). The line up for the evening boasts a trio of exciting new Scottish bands, What The Blood Revealed, Out of Samsara and Oslow. Further gigs lined up this month include Jousting With Dracula, Trapped In Kansas and Esperi. Check out their Myspace for all of the important details.

The full line up for this years Tigerfest got announced on Thursday, the event runs from the 5th-22nd of May, taking place in Edinburgh, Dunfermline and Aberdeen. Highlights include Malcolm Middleton, King Creosote, Withered Hand and the Unwinding Hours. Further information on all of the goings on can be found on the Tigerfest Homepage.

In case you missed it on Wednesday, Over the Wall are having a wee shindig on Monday to launch for their excellent new single 'Settle Down'. It takes place at the Captains Rest, it all kicks off at two and there will be free sandwiches. I can't think of a better way to spend my Easter Monday.

It might be a wee bit late, but if you are free this afternoon then there is another afternoon gig taking place down in Stereo, for a gig being put on by Hazy Recollections. Running from 2-6, the Easter Sunday's line up includes The Injuns, Rachel Sermanni and her fiddle Pixies, Julia and the Doogans and resident host, Findlay Napier.

Woodenbox with a Fistful of Fivers launch their new album, 'Home And The Wild Hunt' with a gig at Mono in Glasgow tonight. It's free and it all kicks off at 8pm.

This Thursday (8th)in Edinburgh, a very interesting event is being put on by the good folk from Born To Be Wide. If you are looking to further a career within the music industry then this might be a great place to find out more information. The event is being put on under the title of ‘Wide Days’, it's an all day seminar featuring a number of major players from the UK music industry. Their keynote speaker for the event is Gavin Bain (who conned the music industry, toured the world with D12, partied with A List stars and earned vast sums of money in advances, living a superstar lifestyle by faking American identities and accents). They also have a number of major festival organisers, including T in the Park, Rockness. On top of this there are live showcases in the evening featuring acts like Meursault, Found, Carrie Mac and Gavin Bain’s new band. Sounds like a cracking event, shame I can't get the time of work to head through. Anyway, enough of my self pity, you can buy tickets and check out the full line up here.

Weekly Round Up (28/03/10)

Here's a roundup of things that I had up this week, and yup there was still no return of Boabs reviews, tut fucking tut. I'll need to have a word with him about that...

Monday - I finally got that Sleigh Bells recording from SXSW that I'd fucked up posted, with a working link this time. Plus Julia and the Doogans were my Fresh Meat and we had even more Frabbit. Fuck it if they're going to record sessions I am going to keep posting em.
Tuesday - I posted heehaw, I was supposed to have a Teenage Fanclub recording up, but due to too much shit to deal with in work and general laziness not a lot happened.
Wednesday - We had Mitchell Museum's Marc Riley session, have we mentioned that they have a gig at the end of April?! Enough of that, more whoring will be done soon. The fabulous Miaoux Miaoux were my next installment in 'Scots Way-Hay'. Plus by special request Olo Worms session was posted for Mooki
Thursday - Saw the lovely Jenny Soep give one of the most interesting set of answers that I have ever had the good fortune to post on here. North Atlantic Oscillation's Marc Riley session went up too, blooming great it was too
Friday - Had 'the greatest' Friday Freebies ever, honestly at the start of the week I was shiting it that I wouldn't have anything. Then along came the National, Phoenix, et al.
Saturday - was all about sessions, RM Hubbert wowed me with his appearance on Celtic Music Radio, while Paul Carlin had me whooping like one of the morons oyu used to get in the crowd on early 90's tv show 'The Word', when he plugged our gig. Oh and he also had a session with the new to me, Okker, great find that man.


Things going on this week, news, other stuff that I have no idea where to put, but want to share

If you are free on Thursday night then you you be getting yourself down to the Liquid Ship on Great Western Road in Glasgow for the Fifth 'Elba Session Present'. The line up is a bit of a corker boasting 'beneath us the waves, The Scottish Enlightenment and John Rush, all playing and to top it all off it's free. Further details can be found here.

Our Edinburgh friends 17 Seconds have a new release out tomorrow, Aberfeldy's Chris Bradley's At the Outpost . This is the follow-up to his 2008 solo debut Voices and will be the first full album release on 17 Seconds Records. Chris is doing a wee instore at Avalanche in Glasgow at 5pm on the 7th, if you can't till then to buy a copy then head on over to 17 Seconds and splash your cash.

Bis announced their return with a one off UK show in Glasgow this week, having already confirmed that they will play at this years Primavera. They are due to play at Stereo on the 23rd of May, ticket details can be found here.

Belle and Sebastian have been announced as curators at this years ATP festival, an event that they helped to establish 11 years ago with their Bowlie Weekender. The festival is being billed as Bowlie Part 2, and it will see the band curating all three nights, from the 10th-12th of December, with the band also headline at least one evening. Pre-sale tickets can be found here.

Ed from 17 Seconds announced on his blog (he must be feeling very special at getting two mentions) yesterday that Tigerfest runs between the 5-14th of May this year. So far only the line-up for Edinburgh leg has been announced, Dunfermline should be announced fairly soon. Artiststs that have been announced so far include; Martin Stephenson, There Will be Fireworks, Jesus H. Foxx, Emily Scott, Midas Fall, The Gothenburg Address, TV21, Alex Cornish, Andi Neate, Andy Tucker, Casey, the Stantons, the Boycotts and Phoebe Kreutz, X-Lion Tamer, The Last Battle, Chris Bradley, The Dirty Cuts and The Wildhouse.

Tigerfest line up announced

The annual Dunfermline Music Festival, Tigerfest, has announced it's line up for this May's event and looks like their is a bit of Fence love in going on. If this sounds like it's up your street then you can get further details on tickets and the like, on the links below.

Wed 13th James Yorkston / Lisa Knapp - £10
Thu 14th Found / Cruiser / Swimmer One - £6
Fri 15th ballboy / audrey sings nico / Saint Jude's Infirmary -£6
Sat 16th Lord Cut Glass / Angil and the Hiddentracks / De Rosa - £6

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