The National
Sep 22
Ascension of the Crybaby Geeks Where: Usher Hall, Edinburgh When: 20 September 2017 Support: Luluc The National are indie rock royalty whose latest album, Sleep Well Beast, has been their most successful in terms of the charts (including hitting No.1 in the UK) and which dominates tonight’s set. Like REM and Radiohead, bands to which they have some similarities, their first few...
John Murry
Sep 20
John Murry [Isn’t] Dead (but alive and well and playing Glasgow) Where: Broadcast When: 18 September 2017 Support: Nadine Khouri The Graceless Age was one of the best albums of 2013 but tonight John Murry, naturally, focuses on its follow-up, the excellent recently released A Short History Of Decay – all of whose ditties get an outing. Murry (voc/gui) is generously supported by a four-piece band...
The xx
Sep 01
We See Them Where: SWG3 Galvanizer’s Yard When: 29 August 2017 Support: Perfume Genius; Nilufer Yanya Outside gigs in Glasgow, even in August, are always a weather gamble but tonight, the first of two nights at SWG3’s Galvanizer’s Yard for the South Londoners, remains dry. The band are anything but dry and the set ignites from the first bars of the first song, ‘Crystalised’, and just keeps...
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