Summercase ‘07, Madrid - Roving Report

[for The Skinny magazine] 
It’s official: British festivals don’t cut it anymore. With tickets selling out in a few milliseconds six months before the line-ups are announced and no guarantee of fun in the sun, thousands of discerning Brits are opting to fly overseas instead, to any one of the multitude of foreign festivals that have sprung [...]

T in the Park ‘07 - Sunday roving report

Laying into T in the Park has already become a tired cliché here in Scotland of late. Ironically, the reasons the festival’s detractors put forward in their case for shunning the whole shebang – huge, sprawling, drunken, faceless, mainstream – are the same reasons, albeit with a different slant, that spurred 80,000 folk to battle [...]

Aereogramme’s Craig B explains his band’s decision to split

At their last home-town gig at Glasgow’s QMU, Aereogramme thanked their loyal fans in the best way possible, with a magnetic performance of their towering yet melancholic creations, or “greatest hits”, as they introduced them, tongue firmly in cheek. The following week I caught up with singer Craig B, just before the band set off [...]