Music
Hop along and listen to Kassidy
KASSIDY frontman Barrie-James O’Neill hadn’t quite finished regaling me with stories from the band’s time at the legendary Rockfield Studios when the tape-recorder came to a sudden halt. In hindsight, it’s probably just as well it did.
Gary Flockhart: Night at the museum proves a big musical hit
YOU get to see a lot of live music in this job. Sometimes they’re great gigs and other times they aren’t. Sometimes you come away feeling exhilarated and other times, well, the opposite applies.
Revived classic returns
TOSCA, one of Scottish Opera’s most popular productions, returns to Edinburgh next week by popular demand.
Review: Admiral Fallow, Queen’s Hall
Admiral Fallow are setting sail on their most important year to date. Since forming in 2007, the Glasgow based folk-rock band have been making slow and steady progress, playing small venues and gradually building a niche for an enthusiastic fan-base.
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Review: A Foreigner’s Journey, The Jam House
In their minds, A Foreigner’s Journey – a homage to two of music’s top-selling melodic pop-rock bands of the 70s and 80s – was playing to a stadium packed with thousands of cheering fans.
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Gemma sticks to the formula
AFTER earning a place on the 2002 Mercury Music Prize shortlist for debut album Night On My Side (she lost to Ms Dynamite), Irish songstress Gemma Hayes went on to carve out a nice musical niche for herself.
Gary Flockhart: Now hear this, before it’s too late
HEAR this: Two of the biggest pop stars in the country have launched a campaign to warn that loud music can cause permanent hearing loss. We should all listen up.
Review: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Usher Hall
Mozart wrote more than forty concertos – mostly for his own use as a pianist. The width of his attainment in the form and its sustained high level of quality cannot be matched by any other composer.
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2 commentsReview: Brown Bear & the Bandits, Electric Circus
As up-and-coming bands go, Brown Bear & The Bandits boast an impressive CV.
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Gary Flockhart: Shirley no mistake in Garbage
BEFORE we reach my verdict on the new album by Garbage, it should be known that I used to have a bit of a crush on Shirley Manson.
Review: Camille O’Sullivan: Feel, The Queen’s Hall
CHANCES are you would have to trawl through hundreds of press cuttings to discover when – if – Camille O’Sullivan has ever had a bad review. This isn’t it.
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Review: New Order, Usher Hall
There was an air of trepidation in the audience last night before New Order took the stage.
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1 commentGary Flockhart: Lana’s just not cut out for live TV
HERE we are in May and how things have changed. Lana Del Rey, who at the start of the year was universally hailed as pop’s new saviour, is actually a bit... well, rubbish, actually.
Use The Subways
IT was the late and legendary John Peel who first brought The Subways to the nation’s attention after he gave their 1am single a spin on his BBC Radio 1 show back in 2004.
New Order out of order, says Peter Hook
THE last time I spoke to Peter Hook, the iconic bass player who made his name with post-punk heroes Joy Division and electro-pop legends New Order, he ended our chat with a precious gem of an anecdote.
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Diva Ute Lemper returns to city
Weimar-style cabaret diva Ute Lemper returns to Edinburgh tomorrow for the first time in four years with Last Tango in Berlin, a musical journey from the backstreet German cabaret songs of Brecht and Weill, to the poetic French chansons by Brel and Piaf and on to the sultry Argentine tango nuevo of Astor Piazzolla.
Review: Ladyhawke, Liquid Room
If there’s one thing the music industry has taught us, it’s that no musical artist has ever flourished unless they had an image to sell along with it. So what’s the deal with Ladyhawke – aka successful 32-year-old New Zealander, Pip Brown?
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17-year-old Edinburgh singer Nina Nesbitt rides high in charts
The interview is over and the recorder has been switched off. And then ten minutes later Nina Nesbitt texts me back to say she’s just had one of her songs played on BBC Radio 1 by Fearne Cotton. “You might wanna add that in,” she suggests.
Review: Placebo, HMV Picture House
IT may not be on quite the same violent scale as that pub fight scene from Trainspotting – no lassies have ever been glassed as far as we know – but Placebo are a band who have drawn extreme reactions ever since they first hit the charts in the mid-1990s.
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1 commentG&S Society swap King’s for Festival
THERE’s nothing the Edinburgh Gilbert And Sullivan Society like better than a good challenge.
Albert Lee comes to Edinburgh
AS compliments go, being dubbed the ‘greatest guitarist in the world’ by none other than Eric Clapton is a pretty massive one.
Gary Flockhart: Let sleeping rock stars lie in peace
AFTER its buzzed-about performance at the Coachella festival, we were told last week that the hologram of Tupac Shakur is now set for a full-scale tour.
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