May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
… to listen to the CDs I have purchased over the past couple of months – but have I? Nope! Today was going to be yet another one of these ‘magical’ days where I’d devote time to sitting and listening and enjoying some music that wasn’t a snatch of 20 minutes on Spotify before falling…
It doesn’t feel like it’s been less than a year since I first saw Ist Ist at The Caves but it was indeed back on May 1st last year that I had my first taste of Ist Ist live. I had loved the experience so much that I then bought a ticket to the rescheduled…
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I think I am going to find this a hard thing to do! So I think I’ll get the easier stuff out the way first. Thinking about all of the arts and culture there are things that I don’t partake in much, if at all. I don’t watch television, so it’s going to be hard…
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A bit of a double bill of info for this post. The first was the announcement by Ist Ist on their social media over the weekend of some album launch shows over the country during the week of the release of their forthcoming album, Dagger. I had to check and see if any were taking…
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A rare dry night for Glasgow at this time of year. Fantastic. Nothing suits me more. I very easily get put off by attending gigs when the weather is shite. It had been pretty shite for the 48 hours leading up to it. Through Thursday night and into Friday it had been blowing a hoolie,…
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This post is going to be an amalgam of two gigs that I attended over the weekend(ish). The first gig I went to was to see Ist Ist at The Caves in Edinburgh last Thursday. It’s a venue I hadn’t been to before. Easy to get to from Waverley station. The Caves is located towards…
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