We hear a little from The J-Word Tours, a new jazz music project touring Scotland and the UK very soon. It looks like a terrific programme of events and the tour presents shows in Perth, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Inverness, Edinburgh and Dunfermline. The J-Word is a new project, committed to sharing the best in live music… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Music
Artist of the Month: Vasquez
Halina from the brilliant Glasgow PodcART, takes a look at Edinburgh three-piece Vasquez in their monthly blog feature for KILTR. Dear Foals, There is this band called Vasquez and you would be madder than a rabbit on a ketamine cocktail not to consider them as your tour support. Kind Regards, Glasgow Podcart
State Of Play: Scottish Music’s Battle of Will
KILTR member Jonathan Whitelaw with today’s KILTR guest blog post. Jonathan takes a look at the demise of HMV and and it’s effect on Scotland. Administration. The very word seems to send a tingle down the spines of anybody and everybody who hears it these days. Five years ago it was a nonplussed adjective reserved… Read more »
Artist of the Month: Fat Goth
Halina from one of Scotland’s top independent music blogs, Glasgow PodcART, takes a look at the amazing and up and coming Fat Goth. First in a new monthly series from the PodcART team on KILTR! The immediate reaction when people hear the name Fat Goth is the unsurprising pang of laughter. Some have even thought… Read more »
KILTR at Social Media Week
Next week we take things off KILTR as Glasgow arts centre the Old Hairdressers hosts the KILTR Hub for the duration of Social Media Week – a worldwide event which includes Glasgow as a host city. We’ll be based at the Old Hairdresser’s for the whole week, 24 – 28 Sept, so if you’re in… Read more »
Overlook Records
The head honcho behind Scottish music blog, Glasgow PodcART, Halina Rifai, takes a look at the superb new Scottish DIY indie label, Overlook Records. Starting your own DIY label is not something you go into lightly. The ever-changing face of the music industry has for me personally become very overwhelming. The Internet has become a… Read more »
Scottish Independence is Music to Some Voters Ears
Jonathan Whitelaw takes a look at the referendum and independence debate and asks why the rockers aren’t targeted by the politicians… The question of independence seems to be on everybody’s minds and lips at the moment. From the ivory tower scholars who scratch their long white beards and eyebrows to the pub philosophers, arguing and… Read more »
Tooting their horn: Who has done more for their instrument?
Jonathan Whitelaw takes a look at iconic musicians and their iconic instruments on today’s guest KILTR blog post. Throughout the eons of time, mankind has always made associations. The music industry, as it has been for so many things, serves as an inflated, hyper active, giddy version of this. From Mozart’s piano to Eric Clapton’s… Read more »
The Story Behind Ballroom Blitz
Paul Gallagher from Dangerous Minds with another KILTR blog post today. The Sweet’s fateful trip to Kilmarnock in the 1970s, the story behind pop smash, Ballroom Blitz and the demise of the band revisited. The band had hardly started playing before the riot began. Men spat, shouted abuse, and threw bottles, while women screamed to… Read more »
Scottish Artist of the Week 01: Miaoux Miaoux
First in a new weekly blog series from KILTR in partnership with the fantastic Scottish music blog, Glasgow PodcART, looking at the best new music in Scotland. This week recent Chemikal Underground signing, Miaoux Miaoux. Firstly a massive thank you to KILTR for having us and our sewer competing tongues for this, our first of… Read more »
