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Knock Sheeran on the Ed and Be Like Pablo
Edinburgh Evening News Thursday 23rd March 2017 These days when I hear a new song or album I always think about whether it is so good that people will feel they need to own it in a way that actually involves paying out hard cash. Most music to be honest is either not that good […]
Music venues play second fiddle to King’s
Edinburgh Evening News Thursday 16th March 2017 I see that Edinburgh’s King’s Theatre is to undergo a £25 million makeover with £5m to be provided by Edinburgh Council. This it says will secure the theatre’s future for another 50 years. Work will start in 2021 which at the rate things are going will coincide nicely […]
Ten years of musical toil for not enough reward
Edinburgh Evening News Thursday 9th March 2017 While the current crop of Edinburgh bands are yet to really make their mark, many of their elders from the Edinburgh scene are not far off a decade since their first releases. 2007-2009 were halcyon years with releases from Withered Hand, Broken Records, eagleowl, Kid Canaveral, Emily Scott, […]
Vinyl countdown
Edinburgh Evening News Thursday 2nd March 2017 As the British Music Experience prepares to open in Liverpool and a meeting is arranged in Manchester to decide if it should have its own museum celebrating the city it would appear that never has an idea been more relevant but despite fantastic support we are still to […]
There’s more to funding music than ticking boxes
Edinburgh Evening News Thursday 16th February 2017 Creative Scotland gets its fair share of criticism and rightly so, but a lot of the box ticking and methodology behind their thinking is because for a large part they are handing out lottery money and need to tick their own boxes to show that the money has […]
Bands gather for rockumentary
Edinburgh Evening News Thursday 9th February 2017 Lost In France is a new documentary by Irish director Niall McCann exploring the rise of Scotland’s independent music scene in the ‘90s, led by cult label Chemikal Underground. Featuring The Delgados, Bis, Mogwai, Arab Strap, Franz Ferdinand and many more there is a one-off opportunity to see […]
Time for chattering classes to pipe down
Edinburgh Evening News Thursday 2nd February 2017 With regard to the proposed hotel for the Old Royal High School or my recent foray into popular music’s artistic worth compared to the visual arts, Edinburgh’s “chattering classes” is a phrase that has cropped up again and again when discussing those that oppose the hotel at all […]
Record industry stuck in the same old groove
Edinburgh Evening News Thursday 26th January 2017 Many years ago when Avalanche was in West Nicolson Street and the internet and websites were in their infancy we had a lovely gift shop called Diggers next door. I went in one day and found a pile of small boxes on the desk that served as a […]
Check out this lot at the double
Edinburgh Evening News Thursday 19th January 2017 I’m so used to well organised bands being rather dull and the interesting bands being, for want of a better word, disorganised that when I returned a follow by Glasgow via Hamilton pop-punk band The Double Standards and then received a direct message thanking me for the follow […]