Steve Adey is an Edinburgh singer-songwriter. We’re not big on rock ‘n’ roll here in Edinburgh, but there are quite a few folksters and acoustic singers, which seems to suit the local scene rather more.
Adey produces atmospheric, desolate folk that reminds me rather more of Adrian Crowley than it does the two legends he [...]
I am posting this, less as a review because I haven’t heard the whole album yet, but more as a little chunk of excitement because I am really looking forward to it. I’d never heard of Adam before, but he sent me a song as a music submission which I really liked, so [...]
Having spent some time locked in the Sound of Music studios, Thunderegg, who I’ve mentioned before, are approaching the release of their new album, probably some time this Autumn.
Laid back rock sounds, witty lyrics and a really engaging way about their music tend to follow these lads around, so I am assuming we can expect [...]
Sweden has its own particular brand of sunny pop - often slightly cartoonish at times - but I would have no idea what to expect from a Norwegian record. More of the same? Darker? Who knows. Well Sebastian Waldejer is from Norway, and may be the first from that country to [...]
More errant podcastery from your favourite slippery green amphibian. This week I find myself yelling abuse at JC who writes a terrible blog called The Vinyl Villain and is currently stranded in Toronto for a few months, far away from his Glasgow home. JC was pretty much the first blogger to take any [...]
Ah thank goodness. The weekend, beer o’clock, beverage time, whatever - slipping into the welcoming arms of comatose alcoholic oblivion, no knowing where you’ll wake, next to whom or how many tattoos you’ll have. Marvellous.
The Edinburgh International Festival of Unbearably Pretentious Thespian Twattery commences this week some time and suppressing the Toad [...]
