Music Archive

It is almost 9.30pm – from a 7.30pm start – before a packed and predominantly female King's is given the opportunity to sing along, and Marti makes clear this will be a very different version of the Wet Wet Wet hit Love Is All Around, built around the harp playing of Julia Thornton.

In case anyone was still wondering, these two guitarists' "The Colonel & the Governor" aliases have been uncovered.

Marius Neset, Birds (Edition)

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 4 and 7

THE problem with hybrid concerts is that the various elements so often neither sit comfortably together nor cohere; in a sense that applied to last weekend's "photochoreographed" performance by the RSNO of Smetana's Ma Vlast, which was neither one thing nor the other.

For a man with a pretty hectic schedule, Marti Pellow looks pretty relaxed in his casual threads in a comfy chair in an upmarket Glasgow hotel.

WHOEVER coined the term pocket dynamo must have envisaged Mollie O'Brien.

Fresh off the back of this year's NME Awards Tour, Peace find themselves enjoying a right-time, right-place scenario: there's nothing new to any of the individual elements in their recycled sound, but the total package they offer seems to be just what 2013 is after.

If it's Monday, it must be Milan.

All bar one of the dozen songs on the new collection from Spain-domiciled Nebraskan Josh Rouse is in the present tense, a broad hint that this is a set about where he's at, and the title he has given it is no idle boast, even if that song itself is in 6/8 rather than 3/4 time.

Terminology can be a tricky thing when it comes to a festival such as Counterflows.

l Scottish harpist Ailie Robertson, who plays with folk group The Outside Track and featured in Friday's Distil showcase at Stirling Tolbooth, has had a double success as a composer.

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Pharis & Jason Romero