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This has been some time coming…2024 was a big year for Edinburgh synthpop outfit, and BM was one of their biggest cheerleaders, both live and on the tracks.
This is quite tentative, expressing reservations and self awareness – “I’ve got doubts” – it takes a verse or so before the trademark beats kick in, but when they do…
Like Dua Lipa vs Joy Division, they are ...
This rather great collaboration is between Scottish dreampop and experimental pioneer futurists Post Coal Prom Queen and the (unknown to BM until this) rapper Tickle – it covers dystopian areas but with a banging musical backdrop.
Always up for something new, Lilly and Gordon have given (Mr?) Tickle a free range to express his views, and it comes across like Aldous Hux...
And he’s back – first new material from the resuscitated Mark McGee moniker, Jackal Trades, this is a self-deprecating, slightly introspective track, a chaser for a forthcoming album…
Over some block-rocking beats, Mr McGheen intones some recent history, not sure what actual he has it in for… “my friends tell me that I can’t sing” – well it hasn’t stopped him yet and f...
Mike Scott is talking about the creative inspiration behind ‘Kansas’ — the opening track on The Waterboys’ seventeenth studio album, ‘Life, Death And Dennis Hopper’ (2025). “I started out with this image of Dennis Hopper as a small boy, watching the trains in Kansas.”
His dream was to jump aboard so he could go where movies were made,” The Waterboys frontman explains ...
This gig was hugely enjoyable despite some niggles, shall we say, which had not a lot to do with the actual music.a
Arranged at short notice during the Glasgow Fair, this resulted in a maybe quarter-full venue and the deployment at short notice of the dreaded “cabaret-style” seating to make it look busier.
Despite these grumbles, there was some very good music ...