Monthly Archives: January 2013

Interview: Frightened Rabbit

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Nicola Meighan

This article originally appeared in the Sunday Herald on January 20, 2013. In 2003, Scott Hutchison started bribing record buyers with biscuits. He’d post them out with CDRs, dispatching tunes and crumbs to distant quarters, and he did so under … Continue reading →

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Interview: Trembling Bells & Mike Heron

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Nicola Meighan

This article originally ran in The Herald Newspaper (Scotland) on Jan 10, 2013, under the heading WHEN FOLK GET TOGETHER. There’s a line in the 1968 Incredible String Band song, The Circle is Unbroken, which sings of “brothers from all … Continue reading →

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Interview: The Pictish Trail

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Nicola Meighan

This article originally ran in The Herald Newspaper (Scotland) on Thursday Jan 3, 2013.  Rarely do pop interviews occur amid hen-keeping, fire-building and trough-knocking. But The Pictish Trail, alias Johnny Lynch, is not your regular pop artist. Based on a … Continue reading →

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Review: Scottish Pop in 2012

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Nicola Meighan

This article originally appeared in The Herald Newspaper (Scotland) on Friday December 28, 2012. There are links to loads of related interviews and reviews at the end of the piece. To those who bewail the demise of pop: guess what? … Continue reading →

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Preview: King Tut’s New Year’s Revolution

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Nicola Meighan

This article originally appeared in The Herald Newspaper (Scotland) on Jan 2nd, 2013. You say you want a revolution? Well, you know … there’s one happening at King Tut’s. For the third year running, the Glasgow venue is hosting more than … Continue reading →

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