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Gig review: KT Tunstall, Glasgow
You know you can expect an intimate listening experience when the venue bar shuts just before the main event.
Gig review: Bruce Springsteen, Glasgow
Thanks to Glasgow’s summer weather for playing a part, because a three-hour epic of a stadium set from Bruce Springsteen wouldn’t be complete without a glowing orange sunset bleeding into dusk in the background.
10 commentsGig review: David Thomas Broughton, Glasgow
A PERFORMANCE by Yorkshire singer-songwriter-experimentalist David Thomas Broughton is so much more than just a concert – quite literally it’s an experience, a sonic record not just of the music he makes but of the space we’re all inhabiting.
Gig review: Ron Sexsmith, Glasgow
Two years ago, Ron Sexsmith suffered a health scare which inspired a lot of soul-searching on his subsequent album, Forever Endeavour – the rich irony being that Sexsmith has never been short on soul in the 20-plus years he has been releasing music.
Glasgow Hydro will open on time say organisers
The fire-damaged Hydro entertainment venue remains scheduled to open at the end of September, operators have said.
Album reviews
Album reviews: Sigur Rós | Lloyd Cole | Tim Odell
Although physically reduced to a rock power trio of drums, bass and vocals, the Icelanders’ assertive ambience continues to challenge, confound and sound like nobody else.
Album review: KT Tunstall, Invisible Empire/Crescent Moon
KT TUNSTALL made her name as a commercial pop songwriter with a belting bluesy voice and a fondness for rootsy rhythms.
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Album review: Boards of Canada: Tomorrow’s Harvest
Getting lost in the sonic complexities of the Scottish duo’s fourth album is far too easy, as it ebbs and flows on a hypnotic electro tide.
Album reviews: Camera Obscura | Tricky | James Skelly & The Intenders | Jazz | Folk
The Scotsman’s music critics review the latest album releases, including offerings from Camera Obscura and Tricky
Gig reviews
Gig review: Elvis Costello and the Imposters
ELVIS’ army has gathered from far and wide. Well, quite a lot from Glasgow anyway and, as he thunders on past the last train witching hour in a packed nearly three-hour set, chances are a few of them ended up here to stay.
Gig review: Elvis Costello and The Imposters, Edinburgh
ELVIS Costello’s Revolver tour has come round again, but no two shows are the same, thanks to the Spectacular Spinning Songbook, aka “the showbusiness marvel of the age”, a colourful fairground-style wheel of musical fortune which dictates the set list according to turns and choices made by audience members.
Gig review: Exit Calm, Edinburgh
YORKSHIRE’S youthful Exit Calm may be the latest in a long line of British bands who write clod-hoppingly portentous lyrics in the hope they’ll be perfectly calibrated to register as profound with an audience bearing the glaze of beer in their eyes, but there can surely be little doubt that sequences like “forever dancing with the devil, you’re lost in the crowd / you think you’re on another level, you think you’ve figured it out” are of a kind which Noel Gallagher would gladly offer in a high-profile single release.
Gig review: Misty In Roots, Glasgow
WHILE the rain washed down upon tens of thousands at the huge Stone Roses show across the city, one love of a more intimate variety was playing out here.
Gig review: The Stone Roses / Primal Scream, Glasgow
ALMOST 23 years to the day, the Stone Roses returned to the scene of one of their most historic gigs for, as singer Ian Brown put it, “a little déjà vu”.
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Classical reviews
Classical review: RSNO/Qatar UK 2013 Year of Culture Celebration, Edinburgh
LAST night’s Usher Hall concert in celebration of the Qatar UK 2013 Year of Culture was quite an occasion.
Classical review: RSNO, Edinburgh
Last night’s Usher Hall concert in celebration of the Qatar UK 2013 Year of Culture was quite an occasion.
Classical review: Daniel’s Beard, Glasgow
In a programme where Richard Strauss’s early Piano Quartet should have been the one familiar work, even it – dating from his pre-Rosenkavalier days – bore an unfamiliarity that spoke more of Brahms than the adventurous composer who was soon to deliver the fierce expressionism of Elektra and Salomé.
Classical review: Philharmonia Orchestra, London
LIKE much of Brahms, the D Minor Piano Concerto balances Romantic passion with classical restraint.
Classical review:The Scottish Ensemble, Edinburgh
THE Scottish Ensemble’s final concert of the 2012-13 season was titled Q2: Quartets Squared, because the programme’s two substantial works were string quartets arranged for string orchestra.
Radar music blog
Radar weekly: The latest from the Scottish music scene
In this week’s round-up of new music: T Break line-up revealed; Wee Chill plans 10th birthday; more acts for Doune the Rabbit Hole; new music from Camera Obscura, Sparrow and the Workshop and Garden of Elks; plus this best gigs across Scotland.
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Thursday 20 June 2013
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