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David Bazan (previously playing with Pedro the Lion) has released a new album.. it’s on repeat in our house at the moment keeping me thinking.
Listen here on Spotify (or three bonus acoustic mp3s: Hard to Be | Curse Your Branches | Bless this Mess)

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.

Quite an busy few weeks in terms of gigs .. last week we dropped into Oran Mor to catch Duke Special and Foreign Slippers (Gabrielle Fröd).
We walked in while Andy Knox finished off the last song of his supporting act, and a few minutes later were beautifully surprised by Foreign Slippers’ unique combination of an [...]

An incredible gig last night at King Tut’s with Foy Vance, Iain Archer (whose spouse is also german speaking it think..) and Dan Lyth. My favourite gig in a long time, and now settling down to an afternoon of sorting through some more photos (Couldn’t beat the photo I took at the last one though!) [...]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has an interesting article on the legality of Obama’s gift of an iPod loaded with 40 show tunes to the Queen. Whoops!

Of course, no one thinks that copyright owners are going to send lawyers after either President Obama or the Queen over this. But none of us should want a world [...]

dol eoin, potential strangers – a happy little family!

There are few who can ingeniously slip in regae tragedy in the style of Madness (Diggin an Early Grave), a song ending with a pseudo-charismatic repetitive riff with a few “amens!” thrown in for good measure (Why Does Anybody Love), Music to Watch Pete Rollins Go By (Let me go.. please please please), and a [...]

A little bit of an unusual gig last night.. Beth Rowley headlining in Oran Mor, supported earlier in the evening by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. Both were exceptional.. two amazing voices!
some little scribbles from my notepad:
different questions | having the same “grammar” but different content/meaning, it’s at that point that the christian and [...]

It’s been about a year and a half since my trumpet’s been out of the case.. good craic yesterday getting back into the swing of things yesterday though..

drop in to the real gig this wednesday

Duke Special announces the release of his new album on the 17th October! (and some gigs.. sad no scottish ones yet!)

It’s not the gear that matters. It’s you and your ideas that matter. Tone is in your fingers.
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