Well, I thought it best to kick off the weekend with my own personal take on a band that blew me away at Glasgow’s Glad Café this year.
It is also nice to tie in with the fact that they have been announced as one of the bands on this year’s T Break line-up list. To [...]

The day I first encountered Edinburgh’s Plastic Animals, I was feeling more adventurous than usual. So adventurous I’d hopped on a train all to the way to the east coast to see a gig at the Wee Red Bar. It was either that or throwing away another Sunday evening re-watching The Office for [...]

On Saturday March 30, busculture was a one-off event produced by Picture Window for Depot Arts and North Glasgow Arts and Regeneration Network’s arts trail, Route 75. These were some of the artists who featured on the day. The film beautifully shot and directed by Michael MacLennan. It features Fake Major, [...]

So crazily the lovely people at Glasgow Podcart have lost all of their common sense and given us complete control over their website for the day. We currently feel like a bull in a china shop, or Joseph Kony left alone in an orphanage. Nothing good can possibly come of this.
Bad ‘child slavery’ metaphors aside [...]

Song, By Toad, an institution for many including myself, have announced a Record Store Day release and it looks like a bastarding treat.
However, the release is something beautiful, enticing, imaginative and will appeal to a shit load of the public.
Song, By Toad has collaborated with independent microbrewery (yes, I didn’t have a fucking clue what [...]

In December, Bloc put on the Slow Fest – 3 days of intimate sets from some of the best Scottish artists, including the likes of Frightened Rabbit, The Twilight Sad, Admiral Fallow, Kitty the Lion and more.
Every Monday, Bloc hosts the Glasgow Slow Club, a chilled out night featuring the finest new [...]

2012 has been an interesting year. The number of DIY labels has multiplied, much like an STD amongst a horny orchestra and there have been a number of bands that have gone from the aforementioned DIY to the major label.
One of these bands is PAWS. Instead of doing your run of the mill album countdown [...]

Last week a post on Facebook (yes, something useful for once) got me thinking about Christmas and how little I use Podcart to help promote artists anymore.
This is the post in question:

Having come from a music background I am always reluctant to write about art as I feel I am not qualified. That is until [...]