I was at a gig tonight. Well, last night, as you’re probably reading this tomorrow. I’m writing this tonight but it’s just turned into tomorrow, which will be today for you. As it is for me too, come to think about it. Anyway, I was at a gig. Not just any gig, but a house…
I’ve been zipping about a fair amount this past week. I’ve been ambling around in Inverness… …loitering between trains at Perth station… …and exploring Glasgow at night. The Glasgow visit was for an Explosions in the Sky gig on Monday night. It was my third time of seeing them and they were excellent. Beautiful, uplifting,…
I think it comes from being a over a hundred miles away from any place of a similar size and thus being in no other city’s shadow, but there is a great confidence to Inverness. No more so is this true than in the city’s music scene. Half-decent (or, indeed, full-decent) bands can crop up…
Well, I say “new”. Pillars was launched in early July, and I was at the spectacular launch event at the Ironworks to see a great gig and pick up my copy of the album (the first physical music format I’ve bought for as long as I can remember). It’s only now, though, that we have…
On Saturday past, I went to see Mogwai live at the Barrowlands. It was an excellent gig. Mogwai are a Glasgow band, and their music is a dark, brooding and energetic rock music, that snaps between quiet, tense melodies and heavy, crashing rages of noise. Their music is a cross between the Smashing Pumpkins and…