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Gig review: Ghostpoet, Glasgow
A LONDON-based MC and beat-poet with a knack for making albums – 2011’s Mercury-nominated Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam and this year’s Some Say I So I Say Light – with titles almost as satisfying to say out loud as the records are to listen to, and you get a sense of Obaro “Ghostpoet” Ejimiwe’s flair for the spoken word.
Extra Rod Stewart Hydro dates after high demand
Extra dates have been added to Rod Stewart’s opening concert at The Hydro due to “phenomenal” demand for tickets.
1 commentGary Flockhart: Waiting for the return of the rock chameleon
LAST week I was beamed back to 1983. That was the year I got my first exposure to David Bowie after my older sister’s boyfriend gave me a copy of Hunky Dory on cassette tape.
Gig review: Lord Huron, King Tut’s, Glasgow
Lord Huron have 14 hours to burn in Glasgow and they want to make the most of them. “We’re trying to get as jakey as we can,” said their softly spoken frontman Ben Schneider, with the slight hesitancy of a man who hasn’t quite mastered the local lingo.
Gig review: Bonobo, Picture House, Edinburgh
The weekend came early here, as a sold-out contingent of young clubbers emerged in the early evening for an extensive two-hours-plus show by Bonobo, aka Leeds musician and composer Simon Green, and a live band that was sized more like a commune.
Album reviews
Album review: Daft Punk: Random Access Memories
The French Duo’s hotly anticipated new offering puts the soul back into dance music as Daft Punk invite an impressive guest list along to the party
Album review: Daft Punk, Random Access Memories
Like the ubiquitous single Get Lucky, Daft Punk’s new album is a distillation of pop’s better moments of the last four decades.
Album review: Rod Stewart: Time
ROD Stewart has just enjoyed the most creatively moribund yet commercially successful decade of his career to date.
Gig reviews
Gig review: Van Morrison, Perth Concert Hall
On this experience the Van Morrison live show is akin to a religious experience – it’s lots of older people sitting in near silence having an occasionally transcendental experience.
1 commentGig review: Chrysta Bell, Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh
Being adopted as David Lynch’s latest muse clearly isn’t a fast-buck career move, however bankable the association might ultimately prove.
Gig review: Bleached, The Art School, Glasgow
“NORMALLY that’s the stoner song,” Bleached’s young Drew Barrymore-alike frontwoman, Jennifer Clavin, exclaimed after Dead In Your Head, looking a little dismayed, “that time it was the fight song.”
Gig review: Tribes, Oran Mor, Glasgow
Camden boys Tribes have wasted no time in following up their 2012 debut album Baby with the just released Wish To Scream. Their no-nonsense work ethic extends to playing live – Tribes aspire to tour like demons.
Gig review: Eric Clapton, London
AS HE celebrates 50 years as a performer, Eric Clapton could be excused for becoming rather set in his ways. Every two years, at the exact same time in May, he’s back in the Albert Hall. The number of shows varies, at least.
Classical reviews
Classical review: Artisan Trio, St Andrew’s and St George’s Church, Edinburgh
The Artisan Trio’s series of concerts, curated by composers who studied in Edinburgh, continues with the Tbilisi-based Marina Adamia.
Classical review: RSNO: Elijah, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
How strange to hear Mendelssohn’s Elijah in German. Yet how wonderfully that clean, clipped language helps cleanse the English translation, created – and stubbornly maintained ever since – for the oratorio’s mid-19th century Birmingham premiere, of its sentimental Victorian fatuousness.
Classical review: Monad - 1913 - Rite Of Spring 100 Years On, Tramway, Glasgow
A hundred years ago this month, Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring caused a disgusted Parisian audience to riot in the stalls at its world premiere.
Classical review: RSNO: Elijah, Glasgow
How strange to hear Mendelssohn’s Elijah in German. Yet how wonderfully that clean, clipped language helps cleanse the familiar English translation, created – and stubbornly maintained ever since – for the oratorio’s mid-19th century Birmingham premiere, of its sentimental Victorian fatuousness.
Classical review: BBC SSO: The Rite of Spring, Glasgow
STRAVINSKY reckoned that the conductor should be little more than a time beater.
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.
Radar weekly: The latest from the Scottish music scene
In this week’s new music digest: My Latest Novel return as Alphabetical Order Orchestra, showcase acts for The Great Escape announced, T in the Park on tour; new music from Trapped in Kansas, The Machine Room, Fake Major, Adam Stafford, The 10:04s and King Eider; plus this week’s gig picks.
Radar weekly: The latest from the Scottish music scene
In this week’s look at the Scottish music scene: Nominations announced for the Scottish Album of the Year Award; festival updates from Belladrum, T in the Park, Wickerman, Burns an’ a’ that! and Ultrachip; new music from Discopolis, Panda Su and Rob St John; plus gig picks.
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