Missed Connections #4 - Kitchen Cynics - Wooden Bird
Posted in SHOFT on 26th May 2011
I spend quite a bit of time trying to convince myself - and indeed the small group of people who read this - that this isn't a Scottish music blog. It certainly didn't set out to be - after all there are plenty already, and some of them are very...
King Post Kitsch - Don't You Touch My Fucking Honeytone
Posted in SHOFT on 24th May 2011
One of the most thrilling things about listening to emerging new music is the sense that you could probably, given the time and the opportunity, do something very similar yourself. There is something liberating and exciting about the way the DIY ethic lowers the barrier to entry. Granted, given this...
White Heath - Take No Thought For Tomorrow
Posted in SHOFT on 22nd May 2011
One of the most engaging things about being involved in the grassroots of music is hearing things emerge as part-formed ideas, changing and growing over time to become fully-fledged parts of a band's repertoire. This isn't limited to the fringes of the music scene either - as artists from Bob...