Category: Music
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“And so are you”
Scissor Sisters – OVO Hydro, Glasgow, 17 May 2025 “How can less be more?” Alison Goldfrapp doing ‘Strict Machine’ in a big metallic jacket as a warm-up? A bit much. Sending out a twerking gorilla to open the curtains on your show? A little rich for my tastes. Bringing on Jessie Ware halfway through the…
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The Forbidden Gummy Laces
What should have been a week of anticipation ended up being a week of anticipation instead. Let me rephrase that: when we should have been looking forward to Copenhagen, we’ve been worrying about whether our cat was going to survive gut surgery. The question of whether we would be going on holiday was real, if…
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I Still Don’t Know
Another day, another attempt to avoid a pointless scrap on social media! I understand what Elizabeth Sandifer is getting at with this joke, but the comparison still bams me up. More than it should, obviously. The gaming franchises of the 2000s don’t need defended from every lighthearted mention, and yet… Guitar Hero and the like…
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Pick Three – I Inside the Old Year Dying
A hard album to describe if not to listen to, I Inside the Old Year Dying has sent music writers scrabbling for the press release. Three details recur in reviews: that field recordings are part of the soundscape, that Harvey asked John Parish and Flood to stop her from using “the PJ Harvey voice”, and…
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Pick Three – U-God verses
One thing I didn’t expect from June’s Wu-Tang show was how much fun it would be to shout along with U-God’s verses. The crowd was at its loudest doing karaoke versions of Ol’ Dirty’s ‘Shimmy Shimmy Ya’ and ‘Got Your Money’ at the end, and during ‘Protect Ya Neck’ everyone screamed “MOVE IT ON YOUR…
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Pick Three – Le Tigre
We had a panic attack on our way to see Le Tigre at Glasgow Barrowlands and almost missed the show. Someone forgot to send a message, we were late, the meeting spot stopped selling food without warning. Minor stuff, the sort of troubles you get past every day. Still, sometimes these things add up to…
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Untouchable – Shuhada’ Sadaqat RIP
Alfred Soto‘s tribute sent me back to Marcello Carlin’s superb write-up of I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, and to this: But she, Sinéad, is still willing to give life another try, declines to die, will not be dissuaded no matter how much shit is rained down upon her head or jammed into her heart;…
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With One Leg Up
If you want to give a physiotherapist a laugh, I recommend being forty and conspiring to develop a Flo Rida related injury. Your physio will love to hear about how you fuct an old knee injury by demonstrating how shorty got low on the dancefloor. It’s dumb. It’s retro. It’ll make them feel young again!…
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Hey Nas – Glasgow Hydro, 12/06/23
Despite the N.Y. State of Mind tour being named after one of his songs, you’d have been forgiven not knowing Nas was due to take the stage at the Glasgow show. The wee guys were trying hard to bring back Wu Wear, while the rap dads showed up kitted out in MF DOOM shirts and…
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Pick Three – the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack (1996)
Almost everything here seemed inescapable at the time but most of it is hazed by memory in 2023. Trying to listen clearly, it was hard to pick a trio of favourites. ‘You and Me Song’ is one of the two Wannadies tracks worth remembering, alongside the sugary wind-up of ‘Hit’. ‘#1 Crush’ is far from…
Blue Box // Recorder 