May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
It was quite the ‘chill’ affair last night for a ‘school night’ gig. After seeing Juanita support Travis at the Hydro at the end of last year, both Michelle and I were keen to see her in her own right. I headed into the city in the late afternoon. I do try and save costs…
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I feel as if I’ve been a juggler these past few days. Well, weeks, actually. One of the first gigs I booked for attending this year was to see The Anchoress in London next month. From there it’s been a bit of a headache trying to get all the rest of it sorted. Mercifully, there…
Read full post “Clashing and Swapping – Gigs To Attend and Ones That Can’t Be” »
I follow Paul Statham on social media as I like to keep up to date with his musical endeavours – particularly when it comes to the Dark Flowers project. Imagine my surprise to see him share these photos on his socials yesterday. He’d shared them with a blurb that stated he’d been in a recording…
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I would say that my own personal tastes in music has been largely made up of male groups and solo artists. Why is that? I think the link between music and its “feel good” effects combined with my sexual attraction to men and the aural appeal of lower register voices has been the main reasons…
Read full post “International Women’s Day 2025 – from The Anchoress to Zoe Graham” »
I have been aware of Spring Awakening for a number of years now. I knew it was to do with young people, teenagers – long before the term ‘teenager’ was used in regular parlance to describe a person in their adolescence. That mysterious and perplexing period of one’s life where the evolution of one’s sexual…
Read full post “BBC Sounds Podcasts – Drama on 4: Spring Awakening” »
Thank you for all the entries received for the giveaway for a copy of Lee Stuart Evans’ fabulous book Pleasantly Disturbed. The correct answer to the question was, of course, Life in a Day. Congratulations to Valeria who, as the first name drawn form the correct entries, has won herself a copy of the book….
In my previous post titled ‘The Thrill of it All’ I expressed gratitude to Jim Kerr for unlocking the love I have for live music and going to gigs. And although prior to 2015 my gig-going could have been described as “sporadic” at best, there was a period around the mid 1990s when I did…
The sun shone on Leith yesterday as Saturday had a day-long reprieve from an otherwise very damp and windy weekend. It was also sunny in Glasgow so Sue and I made the most of the good weather by going to the Rebels and Renegades photo exhibition at the Street Level Photoworks at 103 Trongate. I…
Read full post “Hamish Hawk (+ Redolent and Withered Hand) – Usher Hall, Edinburgh 22/02/2025” »
Simple Minds were a fantastic live band from the get-go, yet despite that, it took them almost a decade before they released their first official live album. The hunger was there from the fanbase as many bootlegs exchanged hands from the earliest days. Now, barely a year goes by without the band milking yet another…
Read full post “New Release – Live in the City of Diamonds” »
Another day, another gig announcement! This time it is the long-awaited return to Glasgow of The Anchoress. To celebrate her signing with label Last Night From Glasgow there is (of course) the impending release of her original recorded material from 2011, Communion. The album gets a release on vinyl for the first time. It is…