Single Ticket #3 - Amber Wilson, The Moth & The Mirror

Posted in SHOFT on 6th September 2011

There's no real theme to this small selection of singles today, except that it's been one of those utterly wasteful, pointless days which grind you to a halt and offer nothing but a stinging slap in return for your best efforts to face them down. It's times like these when...

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John Knox Sex Club - Raise Ravens

Posted in SHOFT on 4th September 2011

Both a strength and a weakness of the network of bands in Glasgow is its incestuous nature. The entire family tree is no doubt fantastically obscure and many dimensional, with individuals often featuring in many bands at once or drifting in and out of them over time. This of course...

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Re-Exploring: Liverpool

Posted in Railways on 3rd September 2011

It's six weeks now since I did an organised railtour, and I've fallen into a pattern of revisiting places rather like I did a couple of years back. This way, I still get my beloved rail journeys but end up somewhere I visited some time ago, with the intention of...

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