Lonely Tourist, Port Erin, Admiral Fallow - The Cooler, Bristol

Posted in SHOFT on 13th March 2011

I received an email a few days back suggesting that I was neglecting my local music scene in favour of events much further away. It wasn't that polite, but you get the picture. I replied as I have before, that when things locally began to move away from the years...

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All In A Good Cause

Posted in Railways on 12th March 2011

With a couple of weeks break between a flurry of tours and other jaunts, I'd been looking around for things to do for the next couple of weeks when this event popped up in my inbox. Essentially, this was a local charity event in aid of the Emmie Dixon Home...

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The Son(s)

Posted in SHOFT on 7th March 2011

Even the curious and rather melancholy sepia toned sleeve is mysterious... a moment in an unknown subject's life captured in time. Welcome to the odd world of The Son(s), a strange, shadowy presence - much vaunted by knowing bloggers with a interest in Scottish music, yet detached and distant from...

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