Dunfermline’s Carnegie Hall isn’t your usual gig venue. It’s a provincial theatre with cushioned seating, suited ushers, pinned-up notices of stage times and a drinks ban in the auditorium. It’s a comfortable yet contrary setting, and local trio Dirty Summer (**) don’t do anything to assuage any tension with their relentless noisecore onslaught. Wilfully unconventional, [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Frightened Rabbit’
May 5, 2008
May in singles: new music from New York, Norway and… Dundee
Most agree that the indie-fication of pop has been a change for the better. Except, that is, when bands like The Pigeon Detectives bring their knuckle-dragging post-Libertine shtick to the table with new single This Is An Emergency (**, 5 May). A rush of equally naff computer beeps heralds the debut single of Philadelphian electro-rock-bots [...]
April 17, 2008
Interview: Frightened Rabbit
OK, so The Midnight Organ Fight has been out for a few days now, and if you’ve managed to buy, steal or borrow a copy you’ll know what a fucking superb album Frightened Rabbit have made: undoubtedly an early contender for album of the year. I wrote a review of it a few weeks ago, [...]
April 3, 2008
Frightened Rabbit – The Midnight Organ Fight
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In medieval times it was widely held that your state of mind was inseparably tied to your state of body. Hence all the talk of apothecaries in Shakespeare and Ben Jonson’s Humour Plays. The theory may have been rightly trashed by modern medicine, but that hasn’t stopped it persisting - metaphorically, at least - in [...]
December 18, 2007
Frightened Rabbit, Foxface, Broken Records @ Bongo Club, 15 Dec
[I would have posted this earlier, but I've been suffering from a weird hangover/caffeine-induced insomnia which has meant for the past 48 hours all I've managed to do is turn up for work and not much else. Not fun. Anyway...]
It’s not common for four of my mates to independently suggest going to the same gig, but that’s what transpired [...]
