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God Help The Girl in the Netherlands
Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch has been working on his “God Help The Girl’ project intermittently for the last five years. God Help The Girl will play their first (and last) shows this month starting with a performance with Tegan and Sara at the Crossing Border Festival in The Hague. More details below.
Shiner
November 19, 2009
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Frightened Rabbit in Ireland
Frightened Rabbit are in the middle of a UK tour supporting Gomez and next month they will support Modest Mouse in Ireland. It has been a great year for the band which included an apperance at the first Scottish Royal Variety Performance. Ticket details for the shows in Galway, Cork and Dublin are below.
Shiner
November 17, 2009
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Twin Atlantic Tour Update and Greatest Drummer Pick
Twin Atlantic’s scheduled tour of Europe hit a few snags this week but last night’s show with Fall of Troy in Heidelberg went ahead and tonight’s show in Paris is definitely happening. Craig Neale has also been in touch to give us his suggestion for Scotland’s Greatest Ever Drummer:
Shiner
November 14, 2009
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The View Heading to Australia
The View will be celebrating Hogmanay in Australia this year at the Falls Festival in Tasmania. The Dundonians have also announced dates in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth over the festive period after they headline the Homecoming Live concert in Glasgow at the end of this month. Ticket details below:
Shiner
November 12, 2009
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FOUND win BAFTA, gig in Hamburg
After a highly successful trip to New York, Edinburgh’s FOUND will play the ByteFM Ball in Hamburg later this month. On Sunday night FOUND won a Scottish BAFTA for their Cybraphon project and we spoke to Ziggy yesterday about what he was thinking as he stood on stage next to Lorraine Kelly.
Shiner
November 10, 2009
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The Twilight Sad in Europe Now
The Twilight Sad continue to blaze their way across the world in support of their latest album ‘Forget the Night Ahead’. Having survived the FatCat Scotland US tour, the band are currently in Europe before finishing the year with two intimate shows in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Full details below.
Shiner
November 5, 2009
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Malcolm Middleton gigs in Prague and Athens
The nights are fair drawing in and Malcolm Middleton is excited again about music. He’ll play solo in Prague and Athens next week ahead of a “Long, Dark Night” acoustic tour of the UK. Malcolm has also been back in the studio with Aidan Moffat working on an Arab Strap boxset and more:
Shiner
November 3, 2009
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The Aliens in Switzerland
The Aliens are actually former Beta Banders John MacLean and Robin Jones along with their old mate Gordon Anderson (aka Lone Pigeon). The band will bring take their intergalactic psychedelia to Switzerland in December for three special shows. Ticket details and more below:
Shiner
October 29, 2009
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Annie Lennox to join Aretha Franklin in NYC
Annie Lennox will join Aretha Franklin on stage for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert to be held in Madison Square Garden on Friday night. More details below. Annie also recently wrote about some great backstage memories from her time in The Tourists and Eurythmics.
Shiner
October 27, 2009