Scottish Fiction Top 20 Albums of 2014

What a year of music 2014 has been.  Unleashing new albums from stalwards like Mogwai, The Twilight Sad and We Were Promised Jetpacks.  Serving up blistering debuts from Honeyblood, Machines In Heaven, and Poor Things.  And seeing Young Fathers pick up the Mercury Prize.  All in all it's never been harder to whittle down our list of favourite albums to just twenty.

Which is why this paragraph is an honourable mention to some of the albums just missing out on our list.  All are equally worth your further investigation, so please check out; Fat Goth - One Hundred Percent Suave,  The Phantom Band - Strange Friend,  Now Wakes The Sea - Bildungsroman,  The Amazing Snakeheads - Amphetatmine Ballads,  King Creosote - From Scotland With Love,  The Son(s) - The Things I Love Are Not At Home,  Stanley Odd - A Thing Brand New,  and Deathcats - All Hail Deathcats.

As has become tradition at Scottish Fiction, our end of year radio show/podcast, unveiled our top 20 Scottish albums in reverse order, playing a track from each.  It's well worth a listen and you can do so right here.  For those who want to just get the skinny on what the full list was, then look no further as below is our Top 20 Scottish Albums of 2014. 

 20. Fatherson - I Am An Island  [A Modern Way]

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19. Turning Plates - The Shouting Cave

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18. Call To Mind - The Winter Is White  [Olive Grove Records]

Buy

17. Owl John - Owl John  [Atlantic Records]

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16. We Were Promised Jetpacks - Unravelling  [FatCat Records]

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15. Bastard Mountain - Farewell, Bastard Mountain  [Song, By Toad Records]

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14. Mogwai - Rave Tapes  [Rock Action Records]

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13. Remember Remember - Forgetting The Present  [Rock Action Records]

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12. PAWS -Youth Culture Forever  [FatCat Records]

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11. Jonnie Common - Trapped In Amber  [Song, By Toad Records]

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10. Poor Things - Poor Things  [Saraseto Records]

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9. Withered Hand - New Gods  [Fortuna Pop!]

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8. Randolph's Leap - I Can't Dance To This Music Anymore  [Lost Map]

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7. Beerjacket - Darling Darkness

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6. Young Fathers - DEAD  [Big Dada]

Buy

5. Machines In Heaven - bordersbreakdown  [Hotgem Records]

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4. Honeyblood - Honeyblood  [FatCat Records]

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3. Andrew Pearson & Lovers Turn To Monsters - Everything We Miss  [Common Records]

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2. Algernon Doll -Omphalic  [Struggletown Records]

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1. The Twilight Sad - Nodoby Wants To Be Here & Nobody Wants To Leave  [FatCat Records]

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A worthy winner, and a list full of great music I'm sure you'll agree.  Or maybe you don't.  Such is the nature of lists.  For most of the albums on the list you'll find a link to a full review courtesy of Scottish Fiction, plus a link to buy the album if you don't already own it.  Go on treat yourself.  And below you can hear a track from each album on our Top 20 Scottish Album podcast.

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Scottish Fiction Podcast - 29th December 2014 - Top 20 Scottish Albums

What a year of music 2014 has been.  Unleashing new albums from stalwards like Mogwai, The Twilight Sad and We Were Promised Jetpacks.  Serving up blistering debuts from Honeyblood, Machines In Heaven, and Poor Things.  And seeing Young Fathers pick up the Mercury Prize.  All in all it's never been harder to whittle down our list of favourite albums to just twenty.

But I've managed it, and that's what this podcast runs down in reverse order.  As has become tradition at Scottish Fiction, our end of year radio show/podcast, unveils our top 20 Scottish albums from the year we are saying goodbye to.  I'll play a track from each album, so during the next two hours you can expect to hear from PAWS, Remember Remember, Jonnie Common, Beerjacket and more.  Who will be number one?  Well you'll just have to listen and find out.  Or you can sneak a peak at our blog post here.  Either way, look back on another excellent year for Scottish music, and enjoy the show!

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Scottish Fiction Podcast - 5th February 2014

On this week's show; Campfires In Winter get all arty, Kid Canaveral get loved up, Prides, LAW and Model Aeroplanes all hit out with excellent new tracks and we run through music from our forthcoming session guests, including Beerjacket.  Throw in a Franz Ferdinand cover version, a request for the Blue Nile and a Belle And Sebastian remix and you're talking about a pretty full on two hours.

CHVRCHES - Recover
Roman Nose feat. Ruth Lalia - Reminders
Hector Bizerk - Orchestrate
The Shakedown Project - Gone
Riquelme - Year Of Spaghetti

COVER LOVER - Franz Ferdinand - Mis-shapes

Model Aeroplanes - Innocent Love
Campfires In Winter - Greeted By The Storm
Jonnie Common - Binary 101
Carbs - Infinite Ammo
Baby Strange - Pure Evil
Kid Canaveral - Who Would Want To Be Loved?
Sarah J Stanley - Secretly Not
Andrew Pearson & The Riflebirds - Ribbons
LAW - Haters
Algernon Doll - Spilt Milk Perfume

The Blue Nile - A Walk Across The Rooftops - #tweetatrack as chosen by @sheeldz

Beerjacket - Two Travel
Lovers Turn To Monsters - LA Gear (Live in Pulse 98.4 Studio)
Prides - The Seeds You Sow

RE-MIXING IT UP - Belle And Sebastian - I Didn't See It Coming (Richard X Edit)

Little Fire - Made Of Stone


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Album Review - Beerjacket - Darling Darkness

Like many songwriters, Peter Kelly, a.k.a Beerjacket keeps his cards close to his chest when it comes to his lyrics.  Yet when he does let slip about the inspirational sources the picture that emerges is not one of clichéd tormented artiste, but of a man who is genuinely contented and happy with his lot in life.  Take the opening line of Antlers; "put your hands on my head to make antlers", an imagine conjured, so we were informed during Kelly's between song banter on Vic Galloway's Celtic Connections show, by act of placing his children on his shoulders.  The same tracks sees Kelly sing "Dare I believe" in a brief moment of contemplation.

And believe he should well do.  For Darling Darkness, his second studio album, seventh overall, allows us all to believe. 

Peter Kelly wears many hats, combining his desire for creative independence with his musical talents, and a passion for teaching; his day job as an English teacher.  What he does well, as all good songwriters do, is to not separate those entities, allowing each of his passions to bleed into the other, so that his music bursts with honesty and realism.

The album begins with a sucker punch double whammy in the guise of Antlers and Two Travel.  Whilst Antlers delights with mandolin and vocal harmonies, courtesy of Julia Doogan and previous Beerjacket collaborator Louise Connell, Two Travel broods with intent.

Glow, contains the line from which the album gains it name is an uplifting love song, dedicated to someone who provides that respite from the world.  Another track whose roots lie in the imagination of children is Cape, an ode to the child-like vision of playing superheros.

An album as stripped back as Darling Darkness puts songwriting front and centre.  Acoustic guitar, the occasional additional guitar or mandolin, scattered percussion and fleeting vocal melodies are all that fill out the spaces between Kelly's voice.  Despite not quite fitting into the 'folk' bracket, there's an earthy feel about the songs, a realisation that simplicity equates beauty.  The music itself remains as heart warming as one has come to expect from Beerjacket following the acclaimed The White Feather Trail.  Instrumental interludes such as in Keys and final track Men showcase Kelly and producer Stuart McLeod's delicate playing.

Darling Darkness connects in such a way because it's not disconnected from reality, the seeds of its songs come from the little everyday things, which serve as reminders to smile and be contended.  Beerjacket continues his unassuming, undemanding march to the claim of one of Scotland's finest crafter of songs.

- Neil Wilson


Beerjacket - Darling Darkness is out on Monday 27th January via iTunes, Amazon, and other online music retailers.  You can download and purchase a CD copy of the album directly from Beerjacket's Bandcamp.

Scottish Fiction Podcast - 22nd January 2014

Get on board and hold on tight, this ride is about to get bumpy!  Racous new music from Young Philadelphia, and BRUNDLEHORSE to kick up the fire, and music from The New Mendicants and Beerjacket to sooth down the flames.  It's a bundle of new Scottish music for the hardy souls willing to take the journey.

Mogwai - Repelish
Dirty Lies - Shallow Grave
Babe - Tilt
The Winter Tradition - Departures

Cover Lover - We Were Hunted - Go Your Own Way

Rachel Sermanni - Everything Is OK
Geoff Martin - Something Good
Adam Holmes - I Can't Be Right
lists - autumn
Beerjacket - Cape
The New Mendicants - High On The Skyline
Randolph's Leap - Light Of The Moon
Tuff Love - Poncho
Call To Mind - Over The Machair
Woodenbox - Courage
The Moth & The Mirror - Germany
Alarm Bells - Compounds
BRUNDLEHORSE - Flow
Young Philadelphia - LQDBRKFST
St Deluxe - Plastic Eyeballs

#tweetatrack - Curators - Cemetery Sea - As chosen by Jon A Than

Sharfla - Heliotropic
Sean Armstrong - Warped Time
The Amazing Snakeheads - Flatlining


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Scottish Fiction Podcast - 6th November 2013

Hot on the heels of début album Deerheart Blood Relatives swung by the Pulse Community Radio studio for chat and tunes.  Their bubbly and witty strain of indie-pop boils over making the session a charming interview about influences, summer festivals, and puns.  Three excellent live tracks are also dotted throughout so dig in. 

The second hour of the show includes regular features 'Tweet-a-track' and a 'Cover Lover' track from perennial Scottish Fiction chum Lovers Turn To Monsters.  There's also new music from Miracle Strip, Mungo's Hi-Fi, Book Group, Call To Mind and more!


Mogwai - Remurdered

Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime - As chosen by Blood Relatives

Blood Relatives - Deerheart - Live in Pulse 98.4 Studio

Jocasta Sleeps - Crayfish Cocktail - As chosen by Blood Relatives

Blood Relatives - Fowl Mouth - Live in Pulse 98.4 Studio

Phoenix - Lisztomania - As chosen by Blood Relatives

Blood Relatives - Bone Idle - Live in Pulse 98.4 Studio

Washington Irving - The Duel
Book Group - Victory Lap
Call To Mind - A Family Sketch

Lovers Turn To Monsters - Chosen One - Cover Lover Track

Monoganon - Best Pals
Pinact - Brew
Miracle Strip - Girl Gang

The Delgados - Monica Webster - Tweet-a-track as chosen by @jocknroll

Public Spaces - Plum Song
Beerjacket - Eggshells
Michael Cassidy - Battleships
Mungo's Hi-Fi feat. Brother Culture - Changes
CHVRCHES - Lies


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Scottish Fiction Presents: A Beerjackt & Friends Christmas

The most magical time of the year, just got a little bit more magical.  You may have seen we announced the latest Scottish Fiction Presents: gig via Facebook and Twitter on Thursday night.  If not, here's the official blog post promoting what we will be getting up to!  You can purchase tickets right now at this link.

Scottish Fiction Presents: A Beerjacket & Friends Christmas

Glasgow singer-songwriter extravaganza Beerjacket will be playing alongside some special guests in a very special, very Christmassy performance.  We're keeping his musical collaborators under wraps just now, but as we get closer to the night, some treats might just come unwrapped.  Needless to say we have some very exciting things up our sleeve.

Beerjacket's last album, The White Feather Trail, was received to rave reviews throughout the Scottish music press (and beyond).  Recent live shows saw Beerjacket play with Kristin Hersch (Throwing Muses / solo).  She had this to say about his music:

"No matter how much music you listen to, you rarely stumble across a musical approach that does not wear its influences on its sleeve. these songs speak in their own language."

With a new Beerjacket album waiting in the wings for release, this show will be a seasonal mix of tracks old and new.

Support comes from the wonderful Julia and the Doogans with another support act still to be announced.  Julia Doogan has one of the finest female voices in Glasgow, and with back up band of cello, flute and keyboards, the band create charming melodies that will wrap your heart in joy.  Perfect tonic for a Glasgow Christmas evening.

Taking place on Thursday 5th December at Mono Cafe Bar in Glasgow, tickets will be limited in number for a cosy intimate evening, and will be priced at a bargain £5.  Tickets are currently onsale here.

The Classic Promoting Your Own Gig Post.

 

Well, it’s Saturday morning and the good news is this nightmare is over.  Starting tomorrow you will be back in the loving blogging hands of Mr Scottish Fiction himself, Neil Wilson.  Before I go though I will take a page from every blogger under the sun and promote tonight's gig!

Tonight at the Roxy 171 - Scottish Fiction Presents: Aye Tunes vs. Peenko

I shall be opening the evening with my usual chaotic acoustic nonsense, followed by the wonderfully witty Mr Shambles Miller and headlining will be the crème dela crème of Glasgows songwriters Peter Kelly and his fantastic project Beerjacket!

For more info why not check out this lovely article STV wrote about it.

Hope you're coming along!

Anyway, thanks very much for sticking around for the first ever 'Scottish Fiction Takeover'.  If you've missed anything be sure to check back over the past few days and read all my nonsense patter.  My FREE Takover EP will of course be on the Scottish Fiction Bandcamp for the forseeable future as well.  So get involved with that if you haven't already!  And if you enjoyed my ramblings keep up to date on my:

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It’s been emotional.

Kyle

Lovers Turn To Monsters

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You’ve Gotta Start Somewhere

It’s a sad day when you realise all those older people in the movies weren’t lying.  It is true, everyone does reach a point in their life where they look back at old photos or videos and think, “Oh my god!  What is with my hair?!” Or, “what am I wearing?!”  And other such over the top, self involved phrases.  The other guarantee is that if you are a musician, it’s one hundred times worse.

But it’s not all about regret, they don’t call them our formative years for nothing.  Sometimes our earliest attempts at creativity and life in general can have a massive effect on our future decisions.  Recently over the Christmas holidays I got together with the three other members of my first band 'The Park', named of course after our local teen hang out.  Whilst together we decided it would be an idea to try re-recording some of our old songs, for fun but of course to simply see if they stood the test of time (they do… Kind of.)  But during the process, reminiscing, drinking, trying to recall what certain songs were about, I quickly started to realise how much The Park ethos had in common with that of Lovers Turn To Monsters.

The Park started off when we were around 15 and admittedly we had absolutely no clue what we were doing.  Although the three members had been acting as collective for a few months, when I was drafted in I had been playing bass for around a month.  The group had been trying their hand at being a covers band and had grown instantly tired.  With a new line up we all decided the best plan of action would be to jump right in at the deep end.  With no prior song writing experience we put a practice in our diaries and demanded we all appear with at least a song each.  And surprisingly, when the time came, we did.  Our drummer and guitarist had a lot more than that in fact.  This hyper active writing process continued week in week out and after our first two practices we had collectively put together ten songs.  Influenced heavily by Nirvana and the indie rock of the early noughties they were all basic verse/chorus/verse but that’s what we wanted.  The first recordings of the songs are of course ungodly, but they developed as we went on and to this day we can still run through them and they work.  In fact I even played one at my Tut's show last summer, (albeit translated onto the Banjo but still!)

The Park taught me some very important musical lessons; sometimes it is best to just throw yourself in. 
Art to me is about being in the moment and just because you’re not the best player or have no idea how to record yourself to a listenable degree doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it.  As long as you have heart and passion it will shine through any of that other nonsense…

With this in mind I decided to head to the internetz and ask some other musician types if their first bands had effected them in a similar way, or if they’d simply covered '...Teen Spirit' with a PE teacher taking lead vocals and moved on with their lives…

 

Ewan Grant a.k.a. Algernon Doll 

What was the name of the first band you were in?

The first proper band I was in was called, 'Judas And The Mullets'.  It was with some guys older than me at school who played classic rock that I hated.  I quickly used this to get the attention of the older year's bands and joined a metal/hardcore band called 'Talus' and I played guitar in that.  It was super fun as we got to play with Allergo and we had a really good home town crowd.

Do you feel that they played a big part in shaping your music today?

Probably just reminds me that music should be fun and never taken too seriously.  I mean it's serious art but people take themselves to seriously.

Do you ever go back and visit any old songs? Any embarrassing titles or song subjects you regret?

Nah, we had a song called , 'Gravecrawler' about the singer's dead cat (it was quite sweet really).  We also used to replace words in titles with 'minge' for some reason so there was, 'The Leprosy Minge' and 'Greed For Minge'.

I don't find myself going back to these songs but I should consider it!

http://algernondoll.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/AlgernonDoll

Michael Cassidy

What was the name of the first band you were in?

My first band were called Signals.  I was the lead singer and I also co-wrote the songs.  Mainly we played pop rock/punk.

Do you feel that they played a big part in shaping your music today?

The  band was an amazing introduction to writing music from an early age.  I wrote with the whole band but primarily my friend Gez.  We always tried to have ideas that we enjoyed but also that people at the shows would enjoy.  That's something I still adhere to.

Do you ever go back and visit any old songs?  Any embarrassing titles or song subjects you regret?

I do listen to our old EP's and I'm still proud of them.  I don't just hear the music.  I hear the jokes and stories attached to the songs.  I loved being in that band and when we were 17 that was going to be our job for the rest of our lives.  Our last EP we done about four years ago still stands up as great songs I think.  An embarrassing title would be 'Dani's Song'.  It's safe to speak for the other guys when I say we collectively regretted that!

http://michaelcassidy.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/MCassidyuk

Peter Kelly a.k.a Beerjacket 

What was the name of the first band you were in?

My first band was called Nectar and we formed on the night of our first gig.  We were named by the gentleman putting on the gig.  He gave us two options; either he would announce we were called Nectar or something MUCH WORSE AND VERY, VERY RUDE INDEED.  After being bullied into this name, some of the very funny neds from school took to calling me Hector Nectar.  How we laughed.

What was your role in the band?

I sang and played guitar.  We were a Nirvana covers band to begin with and so we were very much the archetypal noisy grungy band.  I won't speak for the others involved but I certainly couldn't really play very well at all.  Or sing well.  In fact, my main role was putting a face to the name Hector Nectar.

Do you feel that they played a big part in shaping your music today?

If playing that first gig had an influence on me it would be that it created my love of spontaneity when it comes to performance.  Little or no rehearsal: just play what you feel.  I look back on it quite fondly.  When I started playing my own songs with and without bands, I suppose I always looked back in one way or another to compare what I felt playing them with the feeling of first playing classic songs by my heroes.  I think it's probably only now that I could feel my set could ever be as strong as it was playing those Nirvana songs.  It takes a while to become a good songwriter!

Do you ever go back and visit any old songs?  Any embarrassing titles or song subjects you regret?

My most embarrassing song was probably my first, although I never played it with a band.  I have no idea what its subject was but I do remember it had a rap in the middle.  A rap.  Me rapping.  Me.

http://beerjacket.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/beerjacket

Shambles Miller

What was the name of the first band you were in?

Well that depends.  I had a wee band in school with my friend Neil Slorance called Pablo Slowfish.  We didn't really play gigs though, except in the school, which I'm pretty sure kids only came to because it got them out of class for half an hour.  My first proper(ish) gigging band was called The Dostoevskies.  Neil was in that too.  We've been bros for a while.

What was your role in the band?

I was the guitarist and I wrote some of the lyrics.  We played a mishmash of funk and punk.  And nonsense.

Do you feel that they played a big part in shaping your music today?

No, not really. I wrote some of the lyrics, which is where my passions still lie, but my music is nothing like it was in The Dostoevskies.  I mean, we had a song with a disco breakdown in the middle.  So yeah, nothing like my music now.

Do you ever go back and visit any old songs?  Any embarrassing titles or song subjects you regret?

I recently found an old demo CD we did, which was hilarious.  The only song I can still play bits of was called 'Lost In Disneyland', which I guess was an early precursor to my lyrical style of using a comical backdrop to convey serious themes.  It was pretty ridiculous though. I painted quite a scary picture of Mickey Mouse.  A lot of that early stuff was also quite political, which is still a common theme in my music now, but back then it was pretty naive.  I don't regret any of it though, partly because I can't remember half of it, but mainly because it was a good laugh.  You have to have a good sense of humour if you're going to name your band after a 19th-century Russian novelist.

http://twitter.com/shamblesmiller
http://shamblesmiller.wordpress.com/

Sean McKenna - So Many Animal Calls (vocalist/guitarist) 

What was the name of the first band you were in?

Bad Day? – with the question mark.  We thought this distinguished us from other bands but in reality it was confusing for fans and promoters.  We were once incorrectly billed as 'Bad Day With A Question Mark'.

What was your role in the band?

I was the singer/guitarist.  I, regrettably, wrote most of the lyrics as well.  We described ourselves as 'indie/pop'.  I realise that doesn’t paint a particularly vivid picture of what we sounded like.  We started off really pop/punk before my voice broke (my voice broke twoweeks after recording our first EP and we had to re-arrange or cut those songs).  As the swathe of NME bands (The Wombats, Klaxons, et. al) edged their way into the mainstream we tried to go with it by changing our sound in hope that it would turn more people onto us but it may have come across as contrived.  That being said I’m still immensely proud of some of the songs we played.  Our last EP had some flickers of things that I later incorporated into So Many Animal Calls.

Do you feel that they played a big part in shaping your music today?

Definitely!  I used to sing in a faux American accent, the lyrics were sickly obvious and the music wasn’t really similar to what I listened to.  When me and Ross (Stewart) came to write for So Many Animal Calls there was no pressure for it to turn out well and we had no idea what it was going to sound like.  It took a lot of weight off and I think the result was a lot more hones.  It might sound like Kerrang in 2004 but I like a lot of that music!  I’m glad to be in a position where I can write and play what I want and have people who support me in it.

Do you ever go back and visit any old songs?  Any embarrassing titles or song subjects you regret?

I went through a period of revisiting our old songs and re-working them into slower and more gloomy arrangements.  Some of them worked but I doubt I’d ever let them see the light of day.  I think it would ruin the nostalgia of being 18 and playing at ABC2 to everyone I knew if I re-recorded the songs and made them sound grim.  It’d be a bit of an insult to anyone who had supported us as well.

In terms of embarrassing song titles, I’ll leave a list. I think all are equally embarrassing

Don’t Mention The War
Salsa Dancers
(This Girl Could Put In No) Effort
Last Look At The End Of The Book

I wouldn’t say there are any subjects I’m embarrassed writing about – I think it was more just the poor execution of some of them.

http://twitter.com/smanimalcalls

http://somanyanimalcalls.bandcamp.com/

Most of these lovely lovely bands can be found on Myspace and YouTube.  Search if you dare!

Scottish Fiction Podcast - 6th February 2013

After our birthday celebrations over the last two weeks, The Greatest Scottish Playlist, it was back to business on Scottish Fiction and settling into our new slot of 9pm to 11pm every Wednesday on Pulse 98.4 FM.  One of the best problems to have when making up the playlist each week for the show is having too much music to play.  It cements the fact that there's a constant stream of great music coming out of Scotland!  So in this show I've crammed as much in as possible, including new music from Frightened Rabbit, Biffy Clyro, Conquering Animal Sound, Sparrow And The Workshop, Washington Irving and much much more.  There's also our 'Aye Tunes Friday Freebie' track, a 'Re-Mixing It Up' track from The Twilight Sad, and a Franz Ferdinand cover of David Bowie takes our 'Cover Lover' slot.


Biffy Clyro - Different People
TeenCanteen - How We Met (Cherry Pie)
Galoshins - Mink

Aye Tunes Friday Freebie - The Cherry Wave - Blush

Beerjacket - Two Travel (Demo)
Yusuf Azak - Move Me Starlet
Frightened Rabbit - Nitrous Gas
Fat Goth - I Am Leg End
Conquering Animal Sound - Ultimate Heat Death Of The Universe
The Pictish Trail - The Handstand Crowd
Russian Ninjas - Brush Your Tongue

Cover Lover - Franz Ferdinand - Sound & Vision

Adam Stafford feat. Siobhan Wilson - Sound Of Fear Evaporating
Kid Canaveral - Low Winter Sun
Washington Irving - Holy Company
L. Pierre - Harmonic Avengers
Marionettes - Teaparties
VsVs - November Snow
Homework - The Edge Of Control Was Black

Re-Mixing It Up - The Twilight Sad - Alphabet (Optimo Remix)

Sparrow And The Workshop - Shock Shock

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Scottish Fiction Podcast - 9th January 2013

I'm pretty much back in sync with these podcasts now, and from here on in, the podcast should be uploaded on a Thursday following the previous day's show.  This podcast features the first live show of 2013 and a whole heap of new music.  Included is our usual feature 'Re-Mixing It Up' which was a track of the new Mogwai remix album 'A Wreched Virile Lore'.  Our first 'Featured Artist' of 2013 was Cancel The Astronauts, and we introduced a new featured called 'Cover Lover', where will play a different cover version each week.  Our opening gambit was a Pink cover courtesy of Martin John Henry.  Amongst all that there was gig announcement news, and an exclusive play of a demo track from the headliner, news of our Scottish Fiction 2nd Birthday Show, and new music from Frightened Rabbit, Fat Goth, L. Pierre, Steve Mason, Rick Redbeard, Cuddly Shark and much more!  Enjoy!


Fat Goth - Surf's Down
Chris Devotion & The Expectations - A Modest Refusal
Forest Fires - Culture Shock
The Yawns - I Win

Cover Lover - Martin John Henry - Try

L. Pierre - Sad Laugh
Lovers Turn To Monsters - Rabbits
Shambles Miller - Rapture
Beerjacket - Two Travel (Demo)
Miaoux Miaoux - Stop The Clocks
Machines In Heaven - Mumbo Jingo
Honeyblood - No Spare Key

Re-Mixing It Up - Mogwai - Mexican Grand Prix (Reworked by RM Hubbert)

Safe Houses - Human Behaviour
Cuddly Shark - Trigger Happy
From Paris To Prison - Best Friends Girl Friend
Rick Redbeard - No Selfish Heart
Frightened Rabbit - The Woodpile

Featured Artist
Cancel The Astronauts - Funny For A Girl
Cancel The Astronauts - Country Song
Cancel The Astronauts - Intervention

Steve Mason - Fight Them Back
Carnivores - Scottish Football

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Scottish Fiction Presents: Aye Tunes vs. Peenko - 23rd February 2013

Returning on the last Saturday of February is Scottish Fiction Presents: Aye Tunes vs. Peenko, for another dose of excellent live music. This time we'll be camping out at The Roxy 171, and it's a singer-songwriter extravaganza!

Opening the show is Lovers Turn To Monsters, an extremely prolific and talented chap, with a penchant for lo-fi alternative songs. Get along early and make sure you catch him play.



Next up will be our favourite bearded singer-songwriter Shambles Miller, who mixes humour and social observations with a healthy splash of folk to deliver one of the best sets you'll catch anywhere in Glasgow.



And headlining this month is the ever wonderful Beerjacket. 2012 was a great year for him, you won't want to miss one of Scotland's best songwriters perform in an intimate setting and hear a sneak preview of tracks from his new album due out this year.



Saturday 23rd February.  Doors from 8pm.  The Roxy 171.   Tickets £6 online or at the door. 

To buy a ticket in advance (with no extra fees) click right here.

We've even got a Facebook event if that's your kinda thing!  See you there!