Tag: music
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TRACK REVIEW: Electric Tiffany – Follow
Trying to blend electronic music with folk sounds like it would be a disaster. Already you’ve probably got an image in your subconscious of Calvin Harris wearing tweed and meddling with a banjo but thankfully Ayrshire newcomers Electric Tiffany have managed to avert this danger. Fronted by Finnish singer Liina Turtoten, it’s no surprise that…
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Are You Satisfied? Slaves Second LP Almost Finished
After taking 2015 by storm with a “do something with your life” mantra on their debut LP, Kent duo Slaves are set to release a follow up very soon. Apologising about the last-minute cancellation of their Hairy Dog gig, which was set to take place tomorrow (April 28th), the band said on Facebook: we are…
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Real Friends Releasing New Album This May
Illinois rock act Real Friends have just announced a release date for their sophomore album The Home Inside My Head. The LP is a follow up to 2014’s Maybe This Place Is the Same and We’re Just Changing and will come out May 27th via the band’s label Fearless Records. The band have teased fans by showing…
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ALBUM REVIEW: ZAYN – Mind of Mine
Former One Direction member hits out with a mediocre debut lacking in creativity or charm Is it a criminal offence to leave a boy-band and not have to follow it up with a solo effort? At the age of 23, Zayn Malik probably has less of an inkling to settle down in a nice bungalow in the…
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Rewind: Best Of 2014
2014. What a year. It may have the blockbuster nature of 2013 but that’s what made it all the better as new artists that were previously unknown to the masses made a name for themselves with some of the most impressive records in their retrospective genres. That’s not to say that there wasn’t any big…
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5 Stages Of Post Gig Grief: A FIDLAR Review
If you somehow managed to avoid my social media last night/this morning then you’ll have fortunately missed my spam of the gig I went to last night. The gig in question, FIDLAR at Glasgow’s Garage, was something extra ordinary. In fact, it made me feel something that I’ve not felt since the Biffy Barrowlands gig…
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Biffy Clyro: Fan Favourites!
Originally posted last December to tie in with their trio of special Barrowland gigs, this post started off as a list of my favourite albums until I thought of something better: asking every other biffy fan for their favourite! Although it was possibly the hardest question any of them could face, there was a great…
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Sweet White gig w/ Monet EP review
As I walked into the Edinburgh venue Peterhead band Sweet White were playing at, there was an overwhelming sense that something wasn’t quite right. “It looks like something out of Twin Peaks” quipped frontman Jake Cordiner as the band to prepared to go on stage. As they began to play, the same amazing surrealism that…
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CHVRCHES – Every Open Eye review
You’d think with the overwhelming success of their debut album that Scottish act CHVRCHES would be on their way to spend tons on a new studio to further expand their sound. You’d also think that there was no way an album as simple yet deep as Every Open Eye was recorded in a flat in Glasgow…
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Echo Valley, Codist, Enemies Of The State & Brothers @ West Of The Moon – 23/09/2015
Ayr isn’t short of talent. The wee town in South Ayrshire has its history pretty much built on it, whether it be the amazing buildings scattered around the town, being home to the Gaiety Theatre where many young ones and old ones have a great time at the pantomime or being the place where Robert…
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