reviews
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James
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… Support act – Razorlight Between 2004 and 2006, Razorlight were omnipresent on the musical scene. Two great albums, 2004’s Up All Night and 2006’s Razorlight produced a number of hit singles, Brit and NME Award nominations and prestigious slots supporting the likes of…
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Yummy, James
Thirty four years ago, James came into this writer’s musical orbit with the release of Gold Mother. An album of it’s time with toe tapping tunes allied to pointed lyrics of the world around us. The die was cast and, for the next few years at least, a new album release was purchased without too…
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Barry Adamson
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… After 5 months on the A to Z Music Tour we final manage to head to one of Glasgow’s iconic venues. We’ve been fortunate to see many a good act over the years, though also seemed to have missed the bands that made…
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Cut to Black, Barry Adamson
While it would be easy to characterise Barry Adamson as having a colourful career to date – having played with Magazine, Visage and Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, not to forget collaborations with the likes of Jarvis Cocker, Billy Mackenzie and more, it’s his comic outlook and film noir style that sets his solo…
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Helicon & Al Lover
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… It’s Friday night and Glasgow city centre is ‘Alive and Kicking’ as we head to the latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour. A few firsts along the way too. A first visit to The Flying Duck as a venue and…
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Night Beats
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… It’s Monday night and the Sauchiehall Street pubs, restaurants and shops are doing their best to attract the meagre trickle of bodies moving up and down the city centre street. Around Broadcast there are a few well kent venues, The Garage and NiceNSleazy’s,…
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James Grant and Friends
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… James Grant’s first foray into the ‘music industry’ was in 1982 with Friends Again. Forty two years later and, if last night’s show is anything to go by, he has matured wonderfully well as both a musician and raconteur of his life and…
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Music Makes Scotland
Ahead of tonight’s gig with James Grant and ‘Friends’, it gave me time to listen back to some of the artists and bands who nurtured my love for home grown music in the late eighties and nineties and continues to do so four decades on. Some became commercially successful and internationally known, Orange Juice, Simple…
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Da Googie
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… There is no shortage of venues in Glasgow that host acts of all sizesTonight it was the first visit during the #AtoZMusicalTour to visit the Hug and Pint bar on Great Western Road Leaving the balmy early summer evening, yes we sometimes get…
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Stag & Dagger
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… One of several ‘mini’ festivals to be a regular happening in Glasgow goes by the name of Stag & Dagger. While the title might seem a bit harsh, it has proved to be a great success over the years with many an up…
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Jah Wobble
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… Off Renfield Lane and downstairs into the basement. Merchandise table on the left tormenting you with vinyl, CDs and the obligatory T-Shirts. ‘Ah’ll be back’ says I, as I spy an album I’ve not seen before. Then, opening the double doors to the…
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The Gathering
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… All being well, this was a night to see a few local bands strut their stuff across the stages of St Luke’s and BaaD while playing some of their own music and giving us an insight as to whether they will ‘make it’.…
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Nadine Shah
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… Having been aware of Nadine Shah for a few years, since the release of Kitchen Sink in 2020, it was only in January this year that we saw here perform as support act to Depeche Mode. Big stage, big crowd and, from afar,…
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Filthy Underneath, Nadine Shah
Listening to the album, initially as background music the first few times, I was taken by the differing tempos and the depth of production across all the tracks. Some were sparse, enabling Nadine’s voice to take the lead, while others had that middle eastern feel which blended perfectly with the instruments as they accompanied her.…
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The Molotovs and Laurie Wright
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… The Molotovs and double headline act Laurie Wright One online definition of ‘energy’ describes it as …. ‘the strength and vitality required for sustained physical or mental activity.’ Last night, at The Classic Grand in Glasgow, two musical acts combined to create an…
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The Vaselines
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… The Vaselines at The Strathaven Hotel, Strathaven, Scotland The Frets concert series is an opportunity to see some well kent musicians play a much paired down set of songs in the very intimate setting of The Strathaven Hotel. The limited capacity gigs attract…
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The Zutons
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… The Zutons at SWG3 in Glasgow In the mid 2000s, it would have been hard not to have heard a Zutons track on the radio, maybe on TV and certainly if you went to any of the music festivals around this period. Their…
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Who Killed …… The Zutons?
Released twenty years ago almost to the day, April 19 2004. After all these years the album title seems quite apt. Whatever happened to the band who were riding on the crest of a wave in the mid noughties with a string of catchy tunes? After years of seeming inaction, the band make a long…
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My First Gig
It’s approaching the 50th anniversary of my first gig, in that most iconic of music venues, The Apollo Glasgow. October 1974, and I left the relatively safe confines of Stevenston to venture to the big city to watch, listen and be totally enthralled by Roxy Music. Enthralled too by The Apollo and seeing artists I…
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Johnny Marr
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… Johnny Marr at The Barrowlands, Glasgow with Gaz Coombes supporting. August 10 2019. That’s the last time we seen Johnny Marr live, supporting Primal Scream at Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh. It would be no exaggeration to say that he left the stage…
