Wounded Knee, Ian Nagoski, The Family Elan - 13th Note, Glasgow
Posted in SHOFT on 15th February 2012
I arrived in Glasgow yesterday to find a city in chaos - a rail strike, the impending financial implosion at Rangers FC, and perhaps worst of all a city in the grip of Valentines Day. Also, the sudden realisation of the impact that devolving licensing of free events to Local...
Delifinger, Withered Hand, King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - The Fleece, Bristol
Posted in SHOFT on 5th February 2012
Many, many years ago I wrote a sort-of-review of a Lambchop gig at The Fleece which I suppose was the beginning of the kind of inconsequential-wittering-leading-to-a-review style I seem to have adopted here. Having been involved with their very earliest UK releases - something I was fairly proud of, but...
Bügsküll - Hidden Mountain
Posted in SHOFT on 5th February 2012
It's always a little strange when the distant past resurfaces to invade the present. Somewhere in the cupboard behind me are hundreds of cassettes dating from the early 1990s, and buried in those boxes are more than a couple featuring Bügsküll. Back then they were part of a strange musical...