30 Days Till I'm 30

Eep. Where'd my youth go?

Anyways, for the next 30 days - almost certainly not on a daily basis, at least not till I've gotten round to finishing the A-Z - I'll randomly be dabbling in self indulgent nonsense, with songs that I like attached. No theme, no convoluted rules or regulations, just some things I've liked in the last 30 years. There's going to be a bunch of non Scots in there too.

First off is Come Out 2nite by the ever wonderful Kenickie.
Pretty much two minutes of sheer pop perfection, which also happens to boast some of the best handclaps ever committed to vinyl.

Come Out 2nite

Also works well slowed down and stripped down.

Peel Session version.

Mitchell Museum

Mitchell Museum are a four piece from Glasgow, and are quite excellent.
Following an earlier sold out run on vinyl, they are re-releasing their debut single Warning Bells on the 14th of May, available on CD & Download, with a new B-side Novels and Dairies. You should buy it, I will be.

There's a launch gig on Thursday at The Captain's Rest, where the band will be playing along with Sparrow and the Workshop, who also have a single out this week.

In the interests of full disclosure I'll go ahead and mention I'm coming at the band with a bit of bias. They are after all managed by my cousin. That doesn't mean they aren't good though, quite the opposite, they are very good. Consider how rare it is for me to every actually put thought in to one of my infrequent posts, then look at this one, I'm obviously not knocking this one out out of family ties!

There's all sorts of fun stuff going on in the single. I'm never too fond of comparing bands to other ones, but sometimes it provides a handy reference point, so here goes. There's a good bit of Super Furry Animals, Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev and Grandaddy in there, so if any of them are up your street, give Mitchell Museum a go, won't you?

If I've got the embedding right there should be a video of the band performing Warning Bells below.
Also, as a bonus and because I'm not posting any MP3s of the single so you'll all go buy it instead, here's one of their other songs, Extra Lives, which appeared on the Doing It For The Kids compilation last year.

Extra Lives



To hear more and get full tour dates and so on, visit the band's website or MySpace.

Beepfest Cancelled

Due to various reasons beyond our control, Beepfest has unfortunately been cancelled.

We hope to organise another event in a similar vein further down the line, and will keep you posted on the progress.

In the meantime, refunds can be obtained from point of purchase.

TV21 Album Launch

Scotland-based post-punk new wave band TV21 will shortly be releasing their second album, a mere 28 years after their first one. To celebrate, there's a launch party in the Voodoo Rooms in Edinburgh on the 24th of May. As well as a set from TV21 Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit and Adam Thompson of We Were Promised Jetpacks will be playing acoustic sets.

Tickets cost a fiver plus booking fee and you can get them from Tickets Scotland.

Sadly there's next to no chance of me getting to it, it's on the wrong side of the country for me for one thing, but it looks like a good night.

For more info on TV21, the album and the gig you can visit their website or MySpace.

Swift Hinterland Thoughts

I only managed one night, Friday. Even though my pass was free I'm still short enough on cash that two nights in Glasgow was stretching it. Damn my continuing joblessness.
Anyway, never saw a lot, but here's what I caught.

Fangs @ Stereo. Whoa, been a Long time since I was in a single figure crowd to see a band. I've always been told that if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all, so I'll just go ahead and move on quickly.

Eugene McGuinness @ Stereo. Staying where I was seemed a simple option, besides, I like Eugene. He can be a bit hit and miss, but he was good on Friday.

Sons & Daughters @ The Arches. Caught a tiny bit of the band before - Slow Club - but not enough to comment on really. Seemed quite good, and The Pop Cop liked them though. Sons & Daughters are always entertaining, though I'm thinking that I should probably take a break from seeing them for a while, ideally till they've got some new material. I find myself standing next to a huge speaker, this may not be such a god idea. Still good, but starting to suffer from me seeing them too much. Not their fault, to be fair. That was followed by a quick dash round the corner for...

Broken Records @ The Classic Grand. Missed the start. Jamie Sutherland has lost his voice. I'm entirely deaf in one ear due to the previous next-to-speaker incident. This combination means that Broken Records are merely alright. I don't have the same degree of love for the band that most other bloggers seem to I'm affraid. I like them just fine, but not as much as everyone else does, and this gig hasn't really changed anything for me on that score. I'll try seeing them again sometime soon and keep an open mind for now.

Next comes an option of hanging around for an hour, deaf and almost skint, to see We Were Promised Jetpacks, or get myself home now. Ever tried to get from Glasgow to the arse end of Paisley in the middle of the night? I have, it's not easy. With that in mind, it's the train home for me.

Weekend Off

I've got very limited PC access this weekend, so I doubt I'll get a chance to post anything.

Normal service will be resumed on Monday. Maybe by then I'll be able to hear again too. Standing next to a speaker last night seemed such a good idea at the time.

Hinterland

I've found myself with two passes, and just me going. Anyone want the spare?

*Tap Tap* Is This Thing On?

Right then, You'll possibly have noticed a bunch of posts randomly appeared dating over the last few days. You've not gone mad (though you may understandably not have been looking, and wonder what I'm talking about).
Turns out I'm an idiot, and when scheduling some posts, managed to schedule them for 2010. Genius. Anyway, sorted now, I think.

EDIT: Still missing C & D, I'll fix them later tonight. This is going well already...

A Quick Plug

There's an email in my inbox which goes a bit like this:
"perhaps you may help to promote our wee festival, malcolm ross is playing which is cool"

I agree, Malcolm Ross is quite cool. Therefor yes, I can give the wee festival a mention.

It's called the Echo Festival of Sound and Light and takes place in Dundee (so I won't be going, bit far away) on the 9th of May.

You can get details here.

That's my public service announcement done, now to go see why I'm missing a weeks worth of posts.

Paul Haig Day

Damn computers. Mine has packed in on me at the moment, and blogging on my mobile is remarkably annoying. Might snap and kill someone, so I'll have to make this quick.

For the full details about Paul Haig day go over to The Vinyl Villain. JC has done a better post than I would have anyway.

I'll try and get back to this and do something more worthwhile once the computer stops being an arse. You know me, I never manage to get things done on time anyway!

How To Get To Heaven From Scotland

While I'm posting random odds & ends, here's a reminder that Aidan Moffat & The Best Of's album is out on Saturday. Annoyingly the whole having no job thing means I'm too short on cash to order the swanky special edition from the Chemikal shop at the moment, bugger.
To celebrate the release of the album, there's a How To Get To Heaven From Scotland board game available to play. It'll give you previews of the album and if you finish it you "win" a free MP3 of Big Blonde from the album, with the sweary bits taken out.
Go play the game here.

Made In Scotland

Neil Cooper from The Herald wrote a bit about Bricolage,. Wake The President, Postcard Records, Creeping Bent, Electric Honey and how the Scottish music scene goes round in circles (in a good way) as well as some other stuff.
I was asked if I could link to it, and as it is pretty interesting I most certainly can.
I like being asked things, it gives me a warm glow and a misguided feeling that people read the blog. Maybe one day someone will ask me to review something, I've always wanted free stuff.

Read the piece here

Free* Unkle Bob Album

Unkle Bob have teamed up with pioneering music beatniks NOISETRADE to bring you our debut album "Sugar and Spite" anywhere in the world via email. All you have to do is spread the word - TELL FIVE FRIENDS or spend some money (whatever you think we're worth) - PAY WHAT YOU WANT (a la Radiohead)

The widget below is really simple to use and fairly self-explanatory; the album will be zipped to your inbox in a matter of minutes!

If you only have 4 friends feel free to use my email address as your fifth.
I picked up the album way back when it came out. It's pretty swell really, more than worth spamming your mates for.

MySpace

Good News Everyone!

Just a quick note to to say we're very pleased to announce that Broken Records have signed to the independent record label 4AD.
The album recording is continuing to go very well and we're looking forward to its release in the summer!

Lovely.

Broken Records - Slow Parade
Broken Records MySpace

In other news The Phantom Band's debut album, Checkmate Savage, is out today. It's fantastic, go get it if you haven't already.
Also, Alun & Stuart from Chemikal Underground have done a wee podcast thing which I'm listening to just now, which is quite a lot of fun. You can grab that on the Chemikal site here.

Happy Birthday Rab!

Today marks the 250th birthday of Robert Burns. To celebrate Scotland is trying to lure all you foreigners with proud Scotch roots over to spend on your money on horrendous tartan shite, and to encourage this we renamed the Scottish FA Cup and commisioned a horrible advert where people sing Caledonia, including Lulu and Sean Connery.

Don't get me ****ing started on that bloody advert.

For me a better advert for the Bard is this, Parcel Of Rogues, performed by the magnificent Delgados for John Peel.
Download

If you don't own any Delgados albums shame on you, go buy some.

While we're at at, another couple of Rabbie's songs...
Camera Obscura - A Red, Red Rose
Me First & The Gimme Gimmes - Auld Lang Syne

I'm aware that in some people's eyes it's treasonous to say it, but my prefered Burns isn't Rabbie, it's Jake, so here, just for fun, is some SLF too:
Nobody's Hero - Live at Glasgow Barrowlands

The Aye Tunes Awards - Everything Else

Lets see if we can get this out the way before January finishes, eh?
To be honest it's taken me so long to shift my arse and actually finish these off that I've ended up dumping half the stuff I'd planned on mentioning, since I'll be here all year getting round to doing it all.
Remember that shouting at me in the comments or in email to get my lazy arse in gear and do something should shame me into posting more.

Also, it seems I'm an idiot and saved this post instead of publishing it. Oh well, it's here now.

"Where'd My Indie Cred Go?" Album of the Year:
Metallica - Death Magnetic. Point and laugh at me all you want, but as far as balls out, OTT riffing, headbanging, posturing thrash goes, this is the best aexample since, well, Ride The lightning or ...And Justice For All. I could live without The Unforgiven III, but hey, I can't have everything. Where would I put it? Also, severeal great Three! Word! Phrases! that just beg to be yelled along with. Also, the demo versions are great fun, with their nonsensical, unfinished lyrics. When I eventually get this for Guitar Hero I may have to give up blogging, as my hand might become crippled. Does everything you want from a Metallica album, and I make not the slightest apology for loving every bit of it.

Best Cover Version:
I briefly touched on covers when I was talking about debut albums, particulary the few lovely ones that Mark Morriss did last year, so here's a whole category of them. Althought Frightened Rabbit made a valiant attempt at nicking this award by doing N-Trance's Set You Free on the b-side of Heads Roll Off and The Saw Doctors took on The Sugababes About You Now to fine effect, the winner is The Wildhearts.
Their Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before cover version album was quite the treat, the only downside being that it was occasionally just too faithful to the original songs. There's a cover of the largely forgotten Glasgow/Ayrshire band Baby Chaos on there and everything, which means I get to talk about it here without wandering too far off the Scottish Topic. The best of the songs and winner of this award is their take on Warren Zevon's Carmelita, if for no other reason than every time I hear it, it puts a massive grin on my face - no easy task for a song about a heroin addicted writer it must be said. Sung by bassist Scott Sorry, it's a rip-roaring version of Zevon's already brilliant original.
The Wildhearts - Carmelita

Best Album - Scottish
Again Frightened Rabbit were the main rivals to our eventual winner, The Midnight Organ Fight is a really, really good album. Chances are were they not up against one of my personal favourite bands they'd have nicked top spot, but they'll just have to settle for second.
For our winner we are going way back to the start of 2008 for Sons & Daughters - This Gift.
It had been a long wait between This Gift and previous album The Repulsion Box, but thanks to regular gigs in between Sons & Daughters managed to firmly nail themselves into my brain as a great band, particularly in that live setting. This Gift is a slightly more polished album than what came before, no doubt due to producer Bernard Butler. Don't worry, he didn't turn Adele into, well ADELE or anything, just maybe sandpapered down some of those rougher edges, leaving a fine slice of pop-rock-country-blues-country-folk fabulousness. My only complaint about the album at time of release was that Scott Paterson's vocals seemed to be a bit downplayed, losing a bit of the boy/girl dynamic of previous songs, but that's not a huge problem, and one much less apparent live too. If you can, try and get hold of the intitial CD release, which came with a bonus CD of half a dozen songs - five from This Gift and the cracking Iggy Pop version of Johnny Cash that the band had been playing live - recorded in Chemikal Underground's CHEM13 studios.
Sons & Daughters Website

Best thing I Bought But Can't Listen To:
If you don't have a turntable, like me, buying vinyl is really rather pointless, so I'm usually sensible enough to not do it. I did have to make one exception though for Aloha Hawaii's Towns On The Moon EP. Aidan Moffat, Stuart Braithwaite, 10" vinyl, no CD or digital release. One day I'll own a turntable and actually be able to tell you what it sounds like. Until then, I have a rather nice T-shirt to wear, since I bought the bundle pack.
Chemikal Underground Shop

Best Album - Other:
I won't run through the list of contenders, there were lots.
Half Man Half Biscuit - CSI: Ambleside takes the prize. Some people will tell you that HMHB aren't as good as they used to be, these people are wrong and aren't to be trusted. CSI is as good as an album as any of their others, packed as usual with tunes, wit and more refrences than an episode of Spaced and thus fantastic.
HMHB - Took Problem Chimp To Ideal Home Show

"Ah, There's My Indie Cred!" Special Award:
Zoey Van Goey haven't done much so far. Loads of gigs, but just the two singles to date. Those two singles though? Lovely indie-folky pop. Hope to hear much more from them this year.
Zoey Van Goey - Sweethearts In Disguise
MySpace

Eh, I reckon that'll do us then.
Comments, emails, abuse about not posting etc to the usual places please, cheers.

The Aye Tunes Awards - Debuts (Updated)

Or a load of random mutterings, prompted by guilt at having almost nothing here in the six months we've been up and running. It wasn't the original intention, but I'll be breaking this down into parts, since it's already way overdue and I'd quite like to get something posted before the end of 2009... Over the next few weeks I'll either give up or post more, one of the two.

For the curious, here's a list of stuff I liked in 2007. Apparently I couldn't spell when I wrote that, and I can't be bothered fixing it now. You are too late to mock me for it now too.

I'll note right now that when I say "best" in the categories, I by no means mean best, but favourite just doesn't sound as good. It's my list, so I make the rules, which are vague, unspecified and subject to change at any point. In some, if not all, categories I'll be splitting them up into Scottish (since that's ostensibly the focus of Aye Tunes) and otherwise. Told you my rules were vague.

Without further stalling for time:
Best Debut Album - Scottish
Quite a few contendors for this one actually. Aidan Moffat put out his first solo album, in a way. While there's a bunch of L. Pierre albums "I Can Hear Your Heart" is the first album Aidan has put out under his own name. It's an odd duck, part spoken word, part music, with a short story in the packaging too. Great piece of work and gorgeously packaged, but not the best thing this year. Mr Moffat has a new album out on Valentines Day by the way, called How To Get To Heaven From Scotland. A preview copy found it's way to me just today, so hopefully I'll give that a listen soon.
Another debut that isn't would be Colin MacIntyre's "The Water". It would be stretching things a bit to call this Colin's debut album, since other than ditching the Mull Historical Society name there's no difference from his previous work, so we'll disqualify it on those grounds. Still had to give it a mention though, since Colin is as good - if not better - a songwriter as ever.
Errors finally stuck out an album - It's Not Something, But It Is Like Whatever - after a few singles and EPs over the last few years, and it was also really very good.
Glasvegas of course showed up to release their album and torment blog owners by pulling anything with an MP3 attached too. They didn't lose this category because of that whole thing, the album did that for them, but it certainly didn't help their cause any.
Laki Mera didn't just release a great little album (which if you want to get technical snuck out at the end of 2007, but wasn't available to buy in shops till 2008) but followed it up with a nifty EP later in the year too, both of which are well worth your time if ambient electronica stuff is your bag.
Make Model recorded an album, then misplaced their singer/guitarist and then pretty much vanished. Seems unlikely that the album will ever see the light of day, which is a wee bit of a shame since it wasn't bad, if a bit like bis but less shouty.
Speaking of bis, Manda Rin put out her first album too. I always roundly mocked bis at any opportunity, only to find a few years later that if I bothered to listen to them a bit more I actually quite liked them... Manda's album isn't far off what bis were doing in their later years (which is miles away from Kandy Pop, which I still can't tolerate) and so also pretty good.

Coming it at a close second for the best Scottish debut album award is Correcto. Their self titled album seems to have been missing from pretty much end of year list I've seen, which has taken me by surprise a bit. Easy to dismiss as a side project, given that the band features one of Franz Ferdinand (another band with a new album imminent) and Richard Wright of the now-defunct The Royal We (who have spat out a few other bands now, like Remember Remember and Sexy Kids) but the album is a whole lot better than something knocked out on days off from the "real job". Especially worth a listen if you like Josef K and the like.

Drumroll please for our winner then....



Popup's "A Time And A Place" has been quite a while coming - over two years since I picked up their first couple of singles by my count - but just goes to show that taking your time can be worthwhile.
Packed full of killer melodies, smart and witty lyrics, lovely boy/girl harmonies and just all round great tunes it's a perfectly formed beauty of a debut. My only quibble with it is that of the 13 tracks on it I had six of them from singles already, but that's only a quibble because I was greedy for more songs.
Not only a fab band but really nice guys too as I found out when having a chatter with them after a challenging gig in Paisley a few months back, where not only did miserable weather mean that the crowd was pretty small, but the band were plagued by technical difficulties throughout, but still managed to send me off home happy.

PopUp - Love Triangle

Outwith the Scottish contenders there were quite a bit fewer stunning debuts in 2008, so it's a good bit easier to pick my favourite, but I'll do a quick rundown of stuff I liked anyway.
In no particular order there was good stuff from The Beep Seals (whose album was produced by Norman Blake, which almost qualifies them for the Scottish part of the award, but not quite, and who were also the first band in ages to send me a promo, which I promptly forgot to review. Err, sorry...), Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip showed that there's life in UK hip-hop yet, and that you can still make intelligent hip-hop too - Thou Shall Always Kill is getting a re release soon and is well worth your time. Saturnalia by The Gutter Twins nicked a Wedding Present album title and was excellent, though not exactly happy easy listening stuff. Not that you'd expect that from Greg Dulli, right enough. Ida Maria, Beth Rowley, Lykke Li, Jenny Lewis and Laura Marling all did decent work, to differing levels of quality, for the girls, while Katy Perry made me want to punch people when I was forced to rely on Radio Clyde for music at work for a while and managed to almost single handedly wipe out any goodwill I had towards anyone at all, but luckily I'm too nice for that. Former Bluetones front man Mark Morriss covered Alcoholiday on his debut album which is splendid, then he put Girls Aloud & Pixies covers on the B-side of his "I'm Sick" single, which put my faith back in humanity nicely. Go grab the single from eMusic, his version of Call The Shots is great. MGMT, Bon Iver, Santogold, She & Him and the like have all had plentiful coverage, so you don't need me to tell you any more about them, so I'll skip on ahead and name my winner.

Best Debut Album That Isn't Scottish

Eureka Machines - Do Or Die
An album that I'm going to guess almost none of you have heard, sadly. If I hadn't gone to see Ginger earlier in the year I probably wouldn't have either, but I did. Eureka Machines were the support that night - or more accurately one of them, front man Chris Catalyst, was. Chris did a solo set made up of a bunch of cover versions and his own songs and blew my little tipsy head off with a fantastic performance, which ensured that I'd keep an eye on the band for the rest of the year. I had some demos & acoustic stuff to tide me over till the album came out, which I hammered enough that there was a risk that by the time I got the album I'd be overly familiar with it, but thankfully that wasn't the case. Like PopUp it's packed with killer melodies and smart as a whip lyrics, but it's an entirely different beast to A Time And A Place, and it's certainly the best power-pop/rock album I've heard in, well, ages. Another thing the bands have in common is that they've pretty much stuck the albums out on their own, so if you want to hear either of them please do spend money on them rather than nicking them off the internet. Both are available on eMusic, so even if you just get a trial to that for them that would be better than using more illicit means (and yes, given my blogging history I know I'm the last person that should really be talking about paying for what you like, but indulge me...)

Eureka Machines - Scream Eureka (Demo)

That's the debuts taken care of then. I'll get on to the best albuums as soon as I can bother myself, then we'll see about getting some new stuff written about, shall we?

PopUp Myspace
Eureka Machines MySpace

Note: if either PopUp or Eureka Machines want those songs removed, just give me a shout.

The Aye Tunes Awards 2008...

...have been in the process of being written for the best part of a week and still aren't finished.
Most likely - barring Christmas miracles - they won't be done before Thursday, but they will be done before the year finishes.

Don't get all worked up though, they aren't really all that worth looking forward to, and are completely arbitrary.

Anyway, all the best to the lot of yeh!

My Latest Novel - Errors - Sons & Daughters: Paisley Town Hall 12.11.2008

VERY quick review of the gig I'm just home from then, for the simple reason that I'm fairly lucid due to Tennent's being both horrible and £3 a pop, reason enough to stay sober at a gig. Somewhat ruined by going to another pub after the gig and drinking real beer though, so it may verge into incoherence.

My Latest Novel: opened the show. It's been a few years since I saw them, last time was at the launch party for their debut album. Oh holy Fuck, this band is brilliant. That was my first impression of My Latest Novel and to be honest tonight just reminded me that. Splitting the set half and half between the debut album and songs from the new forthcoming (I want it NOW dammit) album was possibly a brave move, especially when you are a band from Greenock playing in Paisley (football wise there's no love lost. Me personally? I don't give a toss. Greenock isn't the nicest place on Earth but hey, Paisley is a Hellhole). Disappointing for me was the lack of some songs from the first album, but in a half hour set there's only so many things that can be crammed in.
The Reputation of Ross Francis, The Job Mr. Kurtz Done and Sister Sneaker, Sister Soul are still good enough songs to send tingles up my spine and make me wonder why this band aren't already huge. Scottish Arcade Fire? Fuck off, hasn't that lazy description been passed on to Broken Records now (who it doesn't fit either, but that's a whole other post) Seriously, if the new album is anywhere near as good as the live stuff, it'll be brilliant.
Special mention goes to the first pretty girl of the evening (I know, this is stunningly misogynistic, but still...) Laura you can be entirely forgiven for the over the knee socks and snug backless dress look for the simple reason that your violin skills are undoubted and you are not a bad singer either.
So, yeah. My Latest Novel were very, very good. The only disappointments for me were the lack of a few personal favourites from the debut album, but that is hardly their fault given the time allowed for their set.

Errors Honestly I can't say much about their set. It was good, don't get me wrong, but at the same time it was just kind of there.
Again, there was nothing at all wrong with the band, or their set, and I enjoyed it, but it didn't move me like My Latest Novel did.

Sons & Daughters were great, as always. Pleasant surprise of the evening was Ailidh (please tell me I'm spelling that right) being present on bass. Alaidh recently gave birth to a son who's name I do not know, so I didn't expect her to be back at work quite so soon. I'm never going to get through a Sons & Daughters writ-up without mentioning how gorgeous Adele and Ailidh looked, so I'll go ahead and get that out of the way now. Don't worry, Scott was also as handsome as always too.
On to their set, it wasn't massively different from the last time I saw them in the ABC at the start of the year (Hell, I'm fairly sure Adele had the same dress on, and thank God she wears shorts under it, since Paisley Town Hall has quite a high stage and if she didn't, well, this review might get filthy) Throwing away Johnny Cash as your second song is a ballsy move, but one that couldn't be faulted as the band laid on a cracking set, mostly drawn from the most recent album This Gift. Early on Adele apologised for never having been to Paisley before. On behalf on Paisley I'd like to assure her that's a wise move, but to please come back sometime anyway. Adele & Scott dealt well with a few over eager audience members (although to be fair, I struggled to avoid joining in the requests for Killer at time) and the entire band as always put on a cracking show. My one problem with This Gift is always addressed live, Scott sings more. I miss him on the album, the melodies live make the songs much better.

All in all then, was it worth my £12? Fuck yes. I'd pay that to see My Latest Novel or Sons & Daughters headlining a show of their own, having Errors tosses into the mix late sweetens the deal on my end even more.

Nitpicks? Well, I'd have liked to see My Latest Novel play longer, I'd have liked the beer not to have been so expensive (and horrible, but I just don't like Tennent's) and finally, I'd have LOVED the guy and girl who were in front of me for the first hour to have shown some fucking decency and not (a) chattered through the band and (b) stopped chattering long enough to snog the faces off each other. I dearly hope someone stabs both of you in the eye with a fork.

Finally, a big "Well, I didn't expect that" to the sound tonight. I've been to a ton of gigs in my life and way over half of them have had awful sound, but tonight - even though I was concered by the venue's huge hugh celing - someone out there played a bloody blinder. Sound was perfect throughout, for all three bands. Cheers Soundmen!

Fancy A Pint?

Yep, once again I'm offering my readership of no one a drink.
As i mentioned a wee while ago, Sons & Daughters, My Latest Novel and Errors are playing in Paisley tomorrow at the Town Hall as part of the Tennents Mutual round of gigs. Getting one good band in Paisley is rare enough, three in one show is downright unmissable, so of course I'll be going along.

If anyone else is and fancies some form of beverage, give me a shout.

Sons And Daughters MySpace
My Latest Novel MySpace
Errors MySpace