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The Human League
With T’Pau and Sophie Ellis-Bextor The OVO Hydro, 12 December 2024 It’s the late seventies and the supremo of Edinburgh label Fast Product, Bob Last, received a cassette in the post from The Human League with the track Being Boiled on it. Suitably impressed he decided to release it as a single. While critically acclaimed,…
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Fontaines D.C.
With Sorry Hydro, 4 December 2024 Four albums into their recording career and pinning a label on the band is becoming increasingly difficult. A difficulty they seem more than happy to promote. There’s the post punk swagger from their debut album Dogrel, with Boys In The Better Land the song that introduced me to the…
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London Grammar
with Lauren Mayberry By her own admission, vocalist Hannah Reid knows what it’s like to take stage fright, which might come as a surprise to many who entered the vast Hydro in Glasgow to hear the band play songs off their most recent album, The Greatest Love, in addition to a sprinkling of tracks from…
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
with Black Country, New Road The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… There are some gigs that you want to review almost immediately while memories, both visual and aural, are fresh in the memory. For others, like Sunday night’s Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Hydro gig, time is needed…
