INDIE FOLK BELA AND IAIN ARCHER Brel, Glasgow, Wed 20 Jun 0000
Glasgow-based Icelandic
singer songwriter Bela's debut album Ticket fora Train didn't enjoy anything like the response its fantastically warm. woozy folk pop merited upOh release a year ago. Watching him pick away contently at an acoustic guitar in the Brel conservatory on a clainrny Summers evening. with lust the smooth. sympathetic ghSSZtl‘Ui of a lap pedal steel in accompaniment. however. yeti can't help but feel that had one or a million people bought the record he'd still be JLlSl as effecting. There's a depth and skill to his songs that can't be understated.
Perfect stuff. then. for supporting an Ivor Novello award winner no less. As a one-time member of Snow Patrol. Northern Irishman lain Archer penned part of the band's stellar breakthrough LP Final Straw. and has the gong to prove it. Now pursuing a solo career. his Output is much less stadium sr/ed. comprising instead more modest. earthy indie folk. Acoustic versions of timeless Ode 'l Wasn't Drinkrn' But You Got Me Drunk'. and hairs—on-tlie-neck raismg barnstormer ‘When rt Kicks ln' suggested his inantelprece ritrght not even be full yet. ilvlalcoliii Jacki
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FAREWELL SHOW AEREOGRAMME QMU, Glasgow, Sat 16 Jun 0000
When Aereogramrne released their aptly—titled third album My Heart Has a LV/S/l That You l/l/ou/d Not Go earlier this year. it was to a certain criticai '.'./armth and a gust of commercial tuiiibleweed. Now that they've knocked it oh the head. however. everyone's out to pay their respects — had the impressive turnout at this absolutely-most-definrteiy final headlining show been echoed around the country. they would never have even approached the financial struggles that caused them to pack it
It's true that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone. however. and the virorld will be a less interesting place for Aereograhtiiie's demise. Or at least. it won't be half as noisy — the Glaswegian guartet are possibly the only band ever to have forged the missing link between post—rock and metal. While the set's early stages concentrated on the post-rock part of this equation. all epic. undulating soundtracks to some kind of heavenly wake. what the band jokingly referred to as their ‘greatest hits set' -- “Zionist lirning', ‘Post Tour Pi‘e Judgement and 'Shouting for Joey' — left us With fire and l().'l(l memories in our hearts. iDavrd Pollocki
70/72()/'/'()‘.'."S music today, This issue: Cajun Dance Party
It’s not Cajun or dance music, but their indie rock has given these five smiling north Londoners a rollercoaster 18 months. Aged 17 and still at school, they’ve supported Kings of Leon, Thom Yorke loves them and Bernard Butler is producing their next single. We chatted to lead singer Danny Blumberg before they went onstage to support The Cribs
Do you get nervous before gigs?
More excited. Especially with a band like these guys. Perforiiirng is what I live for. I wish I could do ll every day. every secc'd
You’re squeezing your debut national tour into the half-term holiday. Is it difficult still being at school?
We fit it in. I don't really want to be at schooi anymore. We had to get a note to our teachers asking for a day off to p‘ay Glastonbury. which was weird. I wrote our first single» the first song to \.'.rrittei‘ in my life in a l‘rench lesson. I still do lots of my writing |.". lessons. That's my prwate. :iu.e: time. I do the melody and lyrics then Robbie igurtarrsti varies the mus: :. lhat's how Morrissey and Marr did it.
You wrote ‘The Next Untouchable’ when you were 15 and it was a huge success. Ever worry you’ll end up in rehab?
Not at all ilaughsi. l‘veryone around us reaiises we're all about the music. There's nothing else to it. Other bands do rt ti; become fashion :cons or to get free cocaine after gigs. oti're far more likely to find us up Prii'iv'ose Hill \"JYUT an acoustic guitar
writing new songs. iCiarr'e Savxersi
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Spies in the Wires@Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Sat 14 Jun 0000
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extra added flavour to a show that ce'ebrates the Joys of B/ue Peter ster st ck", Jack blast c i" tones of fixzr‘g. riie'idi'tg and bare, keeping things toge her. It's a pttiiosopiiy Sellotape's home made music is founded on. Neil Cooper"
J/\// SNJO PLAYS COLTRANE
Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow, Tue 26 Jun 0000
John Coltrane is the most iconic of modern ia// giants. and it was inevitable that the Scottish National Ja// Orchestra would get round to honouring the master. Tommy Smith chose the leIh anniversary of his death. and celebrated Trahe's own creative spirit by commissioning ten ll(}".".’ arrangen‘ients of his music. with varied and rmpresswe i‘eSUIts.
lvluch- played tunes like 'Giant Steps iFlorian Ross; and “Moments Notice' iChristiah Jacobi emerged in fresh guise. Two of his great ballads. 'Narina' iJoe Locker and "Dear Lord' lOeoffrey Koo/eh. brought calm to the middle of each set amid the high-- energy \.'.rorkouts.
Pino lodice arranged Coltrahe's solo from 'Satellite' for the whole band. Rick laylor found fresh dimensions in ‘Afi'o Blue'. and Paul lowndrow made an iinpressiw arranging debut With Pesolutron' from A Love Supreme. coin;)lehientihg Manu Pekar's 'Ackiiowletlgineiit'.
l ateperiod Coltrane received its due in Hyan Ouigley's ‘lmpressions' and Smith's own enthralling take on "the i athei. the Son and the Holy Ghost". And. of course. loads of great soloing along the way. iKenny lvlathiesonl