The Jesus and Mary Chain
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Echoes of Scotland – Show No.2
I’ll be playing some contemporary music each Sunday between 7pm and 8pm GMT. Some will be old. Some will be new. Some will be borrowed but they will all be tinged with some Scottish blue.
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The Jesus and Mary Chain
With Ciel The Barrowland Ballroom, 7 December 2024 In the mid to late eighties, The Jesus and Mary Chain unleashed two classic albums, Psychocandy and Darklands that defined not just the band, but a genre of music that continues to reverberate on occasions like that at The Barrowland Ballroom, 40 years after they first exploded…
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European Tour No.1
Our A to Z Musical Tour It seems like only a few weeks ago since we completed our A to Z Tour of Scotland, which took us a few years to complete, with a prolonged break due to the COVID pandemic. That started in Anstruther and finished in Zoar on New Years Day. What to…
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Glasgow Eyes
The release of Glasgow Eyes has been met by a series of mixed media and personal reviews. For some it lacked all the inspiration of previous albums. At it’s most critical, comments suggested neither Jim or William Reid had actually tried too hard to record the album in the first place. Old guys, with nothing…
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The Jesus and Mary Chain
The latest gig on our A to Z musical adventure was …… What to expect from The Jesus and Mary Chain after all these years? 40 to be precise as the advertising bill boards pronounced. A question no doubt asked by a few of the audience who meandered into the Usher Hall in Edinburgh to…
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Looking to Shoegaze
A few years ago, a pal of Bronagh’s asked me what I meant by Shoegaze music. To answer back that ‘…it’s just bloody good music.’ wasn’t going to cut ice. So I simply summarised by saying it was like light and delicate soundscapes made up of heavily distorted guitar playing and vocals that were sometimes…
