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Slide Into My Hand Pt 2
I’m very pleased to announce that my good friend ‘Big’ Steve Nicoll has agreed to have his regular podcast called Slide Into My Hand (it’s a Throwing Muses reference) appear on the Tidal Wave of...
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Final Surf for 2010
Now that my Annual Xmas Album Countdown has been announced, this feels like a good time to reflect on what others have been saying. Magazine-wise the unashamedly mainstream Q made a good choice with...
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Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will
Album of the Week: Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will I’m not sure how they do it. More than 15 years and seven albums into their career, Mogwai STILL haven’t delivered a duff record....
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Slide Into My Hand Pt 8
Everyone’s favourite muscially-challenged Dundonian (no, not Kyle Falconer) is back on the podcast beat with tunes from Tidal Wave faves Conquering Animal Sound and the Joy Formidable, unknowns (to us...
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Mogwai/The Twilight Sad, Edinburgh HMV Picture House, February 21, 2011
The amount of respect afforded to Mogwai, not just in Scotland, but globally is terrifying, so god knows what will happen if they ever screw up. Thankfully that’s not likely any time soon. Straight off...
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It’s That Gobshite Again! Is He Never Off the Air?!
If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you may have picked up that I was on Freshair at the weekend. For the uninitiated, that’s Edinburgh Uni’s student radio station which has an annual Festival...
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Gratuitous October Plugs
Evening bairns. This seems to be happening with increasing regularity. Us getting sent lots of stuff that we want to tell you about, that just don’t fit with our Album of the Week/Bandcrush template. -...
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The Best Albums of 2011 – 5-1
5. King Creosote and John Hopkins – Diamond Mine Much of our feelings about this album relate to a tear-stained performance at Homegame in Anstruther back in May, but even if we hadn’t been there,...
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Last Post on the 2011 Bugle
Iiiiiiit’s Chriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiistmaaaaaaaaaaas! And that can mean only one thing – the BAMS (Blogs and Music Sites Scotland) are back. The unofficial guild/club/clique voted High Violet by the...
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Who’s up for the Scottish Album of the Year?
The recent announcement that the Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA) was creating a Scottish Album of the Year Award has been met with mostly positive noises from the industry and bl*g*sph*re....
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