Welcome to Glasgow Podcart. An erratic blog and podcast that will hopefully introduce you to at least one new artist to embrace with your bosom.
Halina is on her own this week with 8 tracks to keep her company.She also talks about Pop Cop’s latest article looking at Scottish Independence.
Tracklisting for this week is:
Cuddly Shark [...]
Carnivores are hilariously blunt. Unless you’re some kind of metal otaku it can be tricky to distinguish the bands working the crowded Kerrang!-approved post-grunge hard rock scene, and if Carnivores don’t immediately stand out musically song titles like “Scottish Football” and “The Second Wave Of Yuppie Scum” do the trick. By which it should not [...]
Degree Shows are, as far as I’m concerned, fraught with danger; the sheer weight of what’s on offer causing fluctuations in quality, as well as meaning that the more subtle and esoteric works get crowded out by the whizz-bang neon lights and large-scale installations.
I’m absolutely not saying that the 2011 Glasgow MFA Degree Show is [...]
On April 25th 2013, nervy Korean troops practised landing drills in Ponhang, citizens in Boston continued to watch the emotional fall-out from the recent bombings in their city and the death toll from a Bangladeshi factory collapse reached 200.
Thus the announcement that day of the long list for the Scottish Album of the Year [...]
De Rosa frontman Martin John Henry returns with a fantastic new video for 2013.
‘Span’ is a beautiful piece of stop motion that has elements of Alice in Wonderland and phenomenal facial hair. I shall therefore nickname it ‘Barry in Wonderland’.
On a more serious not, ‘Span’ is an expressive and alluring track and however woeful people stereotype the feeling of Henry’s music, there is as much illumination to lift it.
Halina Rifai
