Music Archive

STIRLING'S loss is Glasgow's gain with the relocation of promoter Alasdair Campbell's sphere of activities, operating under his own AC Projects banner, to the bigger city.

AT the end of the day, a great performance is a great performance.

Concerto Caledonia

James Blake

The music industry is splintering in all sorts of directions as we hurtle further into the digital unknown.

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark never intended to be pop stars.

l The Sunday lunchtime jazz sessions at Clarks Bar in Dundee reach their 30th instalment this weekend when the long-established East Coast Jazzmen bring the sounds of New Orleans to the Lindsay Street venue.

Jacqui McShee feels lucky to be singing the blues.

FULLY three hours after arriving onstage Gurdas Maan is still urging his musicians on, encouraging them to increase the pace, conducting them through various subtleties, and sharing pleasantries with all and sundry.

That'll be Ron's hands and Russell's mouth, as captured on tape when the Mael brothers toured as a duo for the first time without band or computer back-up, resulting in Sparks' first live album.

Michelle Mulcahy could hardly avoid becoming a musician.

l With her father's old band, Big Country, releasing a new album, The Journey, on April 8, with Mike Peters of The Alarm on vocals (and kicking off a tour in Glasgow and Aberdeen on April 12 and 13), Kirsten Adamson, daughter of the late Stuart Adamson, is gigging with her band, The Gillyflowers.

No, I had not previously heard them either, but this is the third album from Los Angeles-based electro-pop producers Samuel Bing and Julian Wass (almost certainly not their given names), following Part 1: John Shade, Your Future's Made and Part 2: The New December, which appeared in 2009 and 2010.

l Edinburgh's Usher Hall will present a series of international orchestras in 2013/14, including Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, The Sixteen, Academy of St Martin in the Fields and the Vienna Tonkunstler Orchestra.