- Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway: Sparrow and the Workshop in Europe Following Mathew’s glowing review of their new album ‘Crystals Fall’ on Saturday, Radio 1’s Vic Galloway has Sparrow and the Workshop’s shows in central Europe and Scandinavia as his Scottish international gigs of this week. The band’s video diary from France is below along with details on every Scottish show abroad this week.
- Sparrow and the Workshop – ‘Crystals Fall’ Reviewed Crystals Fall? How about Bear Wolf Crystal Fucks Fall, just to make it properly Pitchforky? Crystals bloody Fall my arse. Anyhow, I am not all that keen on the name, but that’s about all I can find wrong with this album, despite the fact that it does a lot of things I don’t like.
- Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway: Errors in Paris Glasgow’s Errors are in France, the Netherlands and Germany this week and Vic has picked their show in Paris with Brooklyn’s Bear in Heaven as the Scottish international gig of the week. Vic has more on Errors below along with the only listing of every Scottish gig outside the UK this week:
- Idlewild in Dublin Next Week Legendary Scottish rockers Idlewild are currently in the middle of a UK tour that ends in Dunfermline but that will head to Ireland next week. Glasgow’s Sparrow and the Workshop are touring with them until this weekend when they’ll join the Brian Jonestown Massacre in Paris. Details below:
- Dear Scotland – The Mixtape: Volume 1 Like many expat Scots, I find myself talking about Scotland a lot. And aside from the standard conversations about golf, whisky or Braveheart the subject of Scottish music frequently arises. In the past, when band names alone were not enough to impress certain people, I would end up making them a mixtape or cd.
- Sparrow and the Workshop European dates with Brian Jonestown Massacre Sparrow and the Workshop have announced a European tour with the unpredictable Brian Jonestown Massacre later this month. The Glasgow based band will also support Idlewild on a UK tour following the release of their highly anticipated second album on April 17. Full details below:
- Sparrow and the Workshop – ‘Into the Wild’ Reviewed Once again with bands who are my personal friends I find myself getting the criticisms out of the way early. In this case it is that I have seen pretty much all of these songs performed live, and one or two don’t quite retain that zip in their recorded form. Maybe I just have to […]
