Saw the Esbjörn Svensson Trio on Sunday night at the Usher Hall, I hadn’t been quite so excited about a gig in a long time! After the brilliance of the show at the Barbican in 2005 I knew what to expect and I had that strange nervous chill that only gets you when you [...]
The one event you’ve spent the last few weeks waiting for sells out, the one person you’d like to talk to leaves without saying goodbye. Try to type and the words won’t form. Turn the bass up a bit, let bleeps take you away.
Found a great blog showcasing some of the best and least appreciated music from around the world .. no idea where the name is from though .. they’ve some great Indian fusion kindofthing made in the seventies, or thereabouts, by an Australian band called Kanguru here, and some great ‘psychedelic afro funk’ (perfect description) by [...]
(She could have had it too.)
Regina Spektor at the Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow, 20/02/07
Regina Spektor might be one of the oddest creatures on the planet – angular, pale and toothy yet still bizarrely pretty. She can even get away with wearing Borat on her chest.
She came out and of course opened with Ain’t No Cover [...]
A slight redesign and I’m suddenly a lot happier with the appearance of the site. A page for scripts and maybe a page for words will hopefully appear too, though there’s little chance of anything substantial before a holiday of some kind.
Saw ‘Trail of Dead at (the?) Oran Mor in Glasgow last night, [...]
Hundred Reasons played King Tuts last night, a reasonable start to a new year of gigs I suppose. Good, not amazing, they were exactly as you’d expect and stayed extremely close to the recorded versions of their songs, though it’s not as if the crowd was expecting anything more. Still, after the acclaim [...]