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An interview with Teenage Fanclub frontman Norman Blake (opens the original)
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Kurt Cobain once described Teenage Fanclub as “the best band in the world”. His love of Scottish bands is well documented. Over Zoom, Norman Blake explains that he first met the Nirvana frontman in Edinburgh in October 1990 when the band performed at Calton Studios. It is one of those stories that has become part of the city’s musical folklore. Cobain had asked The Vaselines to reform for the show, with Eugene Kelly among the support acts that night. Blake remembers being in the dressing room, h
Liverpool band set for big things make a return to Edinburgh (opens the original)
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The young Liverpool band take the roof off Assai Records with an infectious set of songs that already feel like the soundtrack to many young lives. I meet frontman Dani-Lee Parker at the shop on Grindlay Street, with guitarist Ben Cassidy also dropping in and out of the room as he prepares to play. Cassidy’s guitar work takes me back to those classic Smiths singles, chiming chords, ringing notes and melodies woven into the rhythm rather than simply sitting behind it. Dani-Lee, who also plays aco
Review - Holy Holy at The O2 Academy Glasgow (opens the original)
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Woody Woodmansey is not simply recreating the past; he helped shape it, and hearing him play the opening of the song that began the Ziggy Stardust era gives it a weight no tribute act can manufacture. Tony Visconti and Woodmansey lock in together on The Supermen and The Width of a Circle, recalling the chemistry they first summoned when recording The Man Who Sold the World in 1970. Something about that material still feels mysterious, especially the title track, which Nirvana later brought into
Interview with DMA'S Johnny Took (opens the original)
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Now, as DMA’S prepare to bring their new self-titled album to Edinburgh, he reflects on Scotland, songwriting and the music that first inspired him. A particular kind of musical journey can only be understood by following the trail backwards. For Johnny Took, guitarist with Australian indie trio DMA’S, it leads from Sydney to various parts of the UK, particularly the north-west of England, through the influence of Oasis, the Stone Roses, the Verve and the Happy Mondays, but also to Edinburgh, wh
Review - Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy, Liquid Room (opens the original)
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There is an anticipation in the room that feels less like a conventional concert and more like the promise of something slightly improbable. Then Michael Shannon walks onto the stage in red cords, colourful Converse and a shirt covered in tiny red hands. It’s an arresting entrance for an Oscar-nominated actor, but tonight he is not here to inhabit one of the outsiders, misfits, or troubled characters who have populated his screen career; he’s here to sing R.E.M. Shannon is rarely still. He compl
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