And it came to pass that a quintet of Dundonians looked over the Tay to Fife and thought they would like a fondly regarded musicians' collective on their side of the Fence.
Almost as if hermetically sealed in their own rarified environment (although I confess not to have made direct sonic comparison with their earlier Factory label recordings), some 15 years since their last work, The Wake return.
Conversations with Elvis, experimenting with the Art of Noise and admiring the Black Keys: chatting to Duane Eddy is a musical history tour, with one of the original guitar heroes as your guide.
Frightened Rabbit laid the groundwork for the blossoming of indie-folk music in Scotland, but it's the bands who followed who stopped the scene from stagnating by branching off in so many different directions.
TO judge from the ecstatic reception awarded yesterday to Turkish pianist Idil Biret following her lunchtime performances at the RCS, what follows will be a minority opinion.
I RATHER imagine John Storgards' account of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the SCO, soloists and Chorus might have had more physical impact in Glasgow's City Hall on Friday than in the Usher Hall on Thursday from where, for logistical reasons, I had to review it.
THE great thing about The Barrowlands as a venue is that if the entertainment is boring you can divert yourself by counting the gaps on the ceiling where cardboard stars have fallen to the ballroom floor and been swept away.
READERS will want to know just how much variety there is in the reinvention of the Golden Age of Variety that is The Revolver Tour, in which the Spectacular Spinning Songbook, which allows audience members to select the music Costello and The Imposters will play, is only one element.
THIS year's Dialogues festival of adventurous music presented three trios, each of whom uses electronics to a greater or lesser degree to fashion their own distinctive sound.
HAVING seen through one third of their three years as Glasgow's Concert Halls' Artist-in-residence, the Pavel Haas Quartet (PHQ) command the stage at City Halls as if it were their own.
The Merchant Voices community choir perform a summer concert tonight at Glasgow's City Halls, featuring songs from an array of musical genres including Scottish folk songs and the Faure Requiem.
While writing a review of Marin Alsop's new all-Bartok CD with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for last weekend's Sunday Herald, I visited the websites of conductor and orchestra, and stumbled across a bizarre coincidence and what appeared a peculiar omission.
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