Hydro Connect Festival 2008 - A Review
- 27 Oct 08
Music Live Music
John D, founder of Glasgow's own indie-tacular Pin-Ups Night, reports on his adventures at the Hydro Connect Festival 2008 in the company of Butcher Cassidy.
Instant Epiphanies: of Dennis Wilson, The Beach Boys and 'Pacific Ocean Blue'
- 18 Jun 08
Music Album Reviews
Three years ago, I paid the most money I've ever spent on a single gig ticket - £50, give or take - to see an insecure sixty-something with a history of mental illness play a ninety minute set of his decades-old back-catalogue, backed by a shiny young group trying to replicate exactly the sound he created almost half a century previous with his long-departed cohorts. Against all odds, it remains one of the most life-affirming nights I've ever had; probably because the insecure sixty-something with a history of mental illness was Brian Wilson, the decades-old back-catalogue was The Beach Boys' greatest hits, the shiny young group were the same musicians he'd used to finally complete his long-abandoned masterpiece SMiLE to stunning effect, the long-departed cohorts were either dead (his brothers Dennis and Carl) or such insufferable pricks that I'd gladly have paid another £50 to keep them away for the night (Al Jardine and, particularly, the reprehensible Mike Love) and, above all else, because Brian Wilson is now and ever will be an indisputable fucking genius.
The Gizeh Records Interview Extravaganza Part One - Her Name Is Calla
- 17 Jun 08
Music Music Interviews
Glissando, in Glasgow’s Bar Bloc at the end of May. Ward replied, saying he wasn’t even sure what he was doing at the end of March never mind the end of May, but he would try to make it along. Being an enterprising sort, and excited by the chance to do some actual proper music editor stuff free of the constraints of major-label PR types, he also mentioned his position at this august rag, and said that Gizeh should feel free to add Brazen to its mailing list.