Rating: Four years after reuniting, festival favourites and re-born Britpoppers Dodgy follow-up 2012’s acclaimed album Stand Upright In a Cool Place with the release of their fifth album, What Are We Fighting For? Self-produced by Nigel Clark, the album opens with…
Formed towards the end of 2014, Denny band The Nickajack Men have been gigging like possessed demons and have started making a bit of an in-road into the Glasgow scene. Consisting of Lewis White (guitar/vocals), Michael Garner (guitar/vocals), Jamie Burns (bass)…
Rating: Inspired by a chance meeting with John Cale of The Velvet Underground, Chris Ford picked up a guitar and began writing songs. Since then Chris has released a couple of albums and has been making some inroads in the…
Rating: Credited as the man who brought Alan McGee out of retirement, Glasgow artist Pete MacLeod returns with his second album, Crestfallen. Co-produced alongside Youth (Pink Floyd, The Verve, The Charlatans) and featuring contributions from Simon Tong and James McCartney, Crestfallen…
Rating: Swaggering down the street as an unwavering force in his wallabies in the video to ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’, Richard Ashcroft burst onto my radar in 1997 and I have been a fan since. Ashcroft is a man on a journey;…
Inspired by the melodies of The Beatles, The Verve and ’90s Britpop, Scottish band Vida formed in Alloa, Clackmannanshire back in January 2013. Led by charismatic front-man Jamie Pollock on lead vocals/guitar and also featuring Nathan Evans (lead guitar/backing vocals), Jamie…
Rating: Bath quartet The Heavy returns after nearly four years to follow-up their 2012 album The Glorious Dead with the release their fourth studio album, Hurt & The Merciless. Opener ‘Since You Been Gone’ is a funky number with a rousing beat…
With a nationwide tour next month, Gigslutz Best Band winners The View warm-up with two gigs in Dunfermline and Falkirk. I caught up with them in Falkirk where back in 2007, a secret gig at Warehouse (or The Martell as…
Formed in late 2015, The Bar Dogs are already getting tongues wagging in their native Glasgow, drawing comparisons to Springsteen and The E Street Band amongst others. I caught The Bar Dogs live in December at Glasgow’s O2 Academy when they…
Back in 1996, Kula Shaker spiced up Britpop when their debut album, K, raced all the way to the top of the album charts. Indian infused hits ‘Tattva’ and ‘Govinda’ – featuring lyrics in Sanskrit – as well as the rockier smash…