- Johnny Reb – Demos Reviewed As much as I can like Frightened Rabbit, I am not sure their legacy was particularly good for Glasgow bands. The number of pale imitations I have heard in the last couple of years has been rather disheartening, in much the same way that far too many London bands seem to still be trying to […]
- The Scottish Enlightenment – ‘St. Thomas’ Reviewed This, boys and girls, is every bit as awesome as I expected. Get in! Whenever you start listening to an album of which have serious expectations there is always the likelihood that it will disappoint. This one, I was careful not to over-anticipate for just that reason.
- The Last Battle – ‘Heart of the Land, Soul of the Sea’ Reviewed Welcome to the latest in an ongoing series where I try and review albums by my friends without either pissing them off or sounding like I’m slathering them with praise, because we have on more than one or two occasions been spotted in the same pub together.
- The Scottish Enlightenment – ‘Little Sleep’ EP Reviewed Oh ambassador, with these EPs you are really teasing us… JUST RELEASE THE DAMN ALBUM ALREADY! I like EPs. I don’t release many, because the bands I work with seem to be more into the idea of albums at the moment, but I like EPs. They are leaner, less prone to that period at about […]
- The Scottish Enlightenment – ‘Pascal’ EP Reviewed This is not only a bloody good EP, it is also the resurrection of an extremely promising band I feared might be slowly drifting into obscurity, as well as my introduction to a really exciting-looking new Glaswegian record label: Armellodie Records.
- Peenko’s Scots Way-Hay! – The Scottish Enlightenment I first came across the Scottish Enlightenment when their name kept cropping up in the “top friends” Myspace page of a lot of the bands that I like, (yes, I prefer Myspace over Facebook, because the majority of folk from school that I have no inclination to speak to don’t loiter on there).
