reviews
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Top 10 Gigs and Albums of 2025
So many to choose from in both categories The Gigs Of The Year 2025 was another busy year for gigs, though I didn’t manage to close off #Chapter2 of our #AtoZMusicalTour with the letters U and X still awaiting to be ticked off. The #RaceAcrossEurope tour which was our #Interrail holiday was even better than 2024 with some great locations and bands, topped off with Nick Cave in the Pompeii…
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Port Sulphur Album Launch
With QUAD90 30 November, 2024, Stereo, Glasgow When I first saw this gig being promoted for Port Sulphur, I thought, ‘Hold on, didn’t we go to the album launch in The Wee Red Bar in October?’ Even reviewed the gig here where once again QUAD90 were the support act. Ahh well, maybe it’s the Glasgow…
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Billy Nomates
29 November, 2024, The Rumshack, Glasgow It’s Friday night in Glasgow and, what looked like a quiet start to the weekend, was transformed when, just after 7.30pm, up popped a message from Liam Chapman to say that he’d managed to squeeze me onto the Guest List for the night’s sold-out Billy Nomates show at local…
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A to Z Chapter 1 – Musical Acts
The #AtoZMusicalTour It started on 27th January 2024 with a trip to The Bungalow in Paisley to see ska-punk band Rudebeard, and ended with a visit to Room 2 in Glasgow on 16th November 2024 to witness experimental exponents Xiu Xiu. In between, with my good, patient lady Bronagh, we have visited many venues across…
A to Z Music tour, ABC, Al Lover, Butler, Depeche Mode, Esperanza, filthy tongues, Gates of Light, Gaz Coombes, Glasgow, Harley Kimboro Lewis, IDLES, Jesus and Mary Chain, Nadine Shah, Night Beats, Port Sulphur, Quad90, reviews, Roisin Murphy, Rudebeard, Takuya Kuroda, Theta, Unharm, Vaselines, Xiu Xiu, Yo La Tango
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Xiu Xiu
with Mokusla What makes us go to a gig? I can tick the first three of the above for any number of gigs this year, but the sole reason to attend the Xiu Xiu gig was the last one! X was the final letter to be ticked off on the first leg of the #AtoZMusicalTour.…
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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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Fat Dog
with Truthpaste I first saw Fat Dog earlier this year at The Garage in Glasgow and that night was taken aback by how many people had thronged into the room to take part in their energetic set. And it was all about crowd participation with the mosh pit in full flow to a backdrop of…
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Beak>
with Litronix Before June this year, we hadn’t heard of Beak>. That all changed at the Big City 2024 Festival curated by Mogwai. The review here provides the immediate impression the band made that day and the future promise of their headlining gig at St.Luke’s this week. The trio of Geoff Barrow on drums and…
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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…
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The Cowboy Mouth
with Xan Tyler The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… Quite a few of the acts we have seen on our #AtoZMusicalTour have been around the block. Some of them were even involved in building the ‘block’ itself. The Scottish music scene is renowned for producing musicians who have played…
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Public Service Broadcasting
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… Public Service Broadcasting For those unfamiliar with the band, their stage names hark back to an era of P J Wodehouse – J. Willgoose, Esq., Wrigglesworth, J F Abraham and Mr B who are the beating heart of the band. They extend this image…
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Alice Cooper, Primal Scream and The Meffs
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… Alice Cooper In 1973 Alice Cooper released his sixth album Billion Dollar Babies. It was the first album I ever bought back then and, over fifty years later, still sounds as good as ever. If you’d asked the 1973 version of me, would…
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Tenement Trail
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… This mini Glasgow music festival celebrated its 10th anniversary this year and has established itself as one of the must attend events of the musical scene for performers and audience alike. Since it’s move to the east of the city centre several years…
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Douglas Dare with Glow-wirM
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… It’s a Tuesday night in Glasgow. It’s October and we were heading to our first gig in local venue The Rum Shack to see Douglas Dare perform tracks from his latest album Omni. The stage is sparse save for a keyboard, microphone and…
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Stereo MCs with Bea Asha
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… As I headed to Edinburgh for the third time in short order, there were yet again a couple of firsts to add into the memory banks. First time I’d attended a gig at The Liquid Rooms. From the moment the security team did…
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Quad90 & Port Sulphur
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… As we approach the end of our A to Z Musical Tour of bands, Quad90 enabled us to tick off the 25th and one of the harder letters to cross off. A wee journey across the country on a Saturday night was required…
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The The
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… In this post we review THE THE at The Usher Hall in Edinburgh The Usher Hall in Edinburgh is a fine venue, though from the second from back row in the Upper Balcony, you could be excused for having a severe bout of…
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Draped Apes, The Golden Tree, Constant Follower
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… In this post we review DRAPED APES, THE GOLDEN TREE and CONSTANT FOLLOWER DRAPED APES It can’t be very often that a band from America, makes the journey to Glasgow to play a mini-tour of the city. That though was the case for…
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Sister John & Draped Apes
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… In this post we review SISTER JOHN, with support from DRAPED APES As we’ve discovered on our A to Z Musical Tour, there are a number of fine venues across Glasgow airing live music on any night of the week. Last night, we…
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Tom McRae
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… In this post we review TOM MCRAE, with support from LOWRI EVANS When we saw Tom McCrae earlier this year (Reviewed here) in La Laiterie Club, the audience were compacted into a relatively small, dark club space with the stage a few inches above…
