Kilmarnock's Dirty Weekender Festival

Happening this weekend is another new music festival, proving that the appetite to organise small scale music events in places outwith the central belt is alive and well.  This is the first year that Dirty Weekender has run, yet with SAMA's organiser Richy Muirhead on board, things have been well organised, promoted and they boast a line up that other more established events should be jealous of.

Kicking off on Friday 1st June and running over the full weekend, the festival is split between two venues, Bakers and Dirty Martinis.  I'm not familiar with the town personally, but I'm informed that both venues are well known as good music enviroments. 

Tickets are on sale now for the festival via Tickets Scotland in-store & online.
Weekend passes are £25
Day Tickets £12 (Excluding Sunday £15)
http://tickets-scotland.com or 0141 204 5151

The big name is of course We Were Promised Jetpacks who have only a few weeks again been amazing people at Coachella.  Catching them in such a small setting should be a treat, and worth the Sunday ticket price alone.  Other than that my tip would be to camp out in Dirty Martinis on Saturday 2nd June, where several of my favourite singer songwriter type chaps will be.  Julia And The Doogans, Shambles Miller, Mike Nisbet.  It'd be rude not too.

King Tut's Summer Nights 2012

The UK's finest small venue, King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, unveiled the line up for it's Summer Nights run of gigs.  Returning for a third year, and running for 15 nights starting on Thursday 12th July, in the past it's been a great showcase of the talent bubbling just under the surface in Scotland.  This year proves to be no different.  Here's the full line up, with our recommended favourites in red.  (Mad props to the hip-hop crowd for playing the dreaded Friday 13th!)

Thursday 12th July – Pronto Mama + Brazil Exists + The Little Kicks + Lost City Soul
Friday 13th July – Hector Bizerk + Madhat McGore + Bigg Taj feat. Spee SixNine + Becci Wallace & BilL Breaks
Saturday 14th July – John Wean + The NK Jays + Seed + Minor Delilah
Sunday 15th July – Xavia + Lost in Audio + Atlas : Empire + Seams
Monday 16th July – Daniel Docherty + Craig Fagan + Chloe Latimer + Anna Shields
Tuesday 17th July – Beerjacket & Friends play 'The White Feather Trail' and other favourites + Quickbeam + Mike Nisbet
Wednesday 18th July – Brown Bear And The Bandits + The Sea Kings + Aaron Wright + Lovers Turn To Monsters
Thursday 19th July – Midnight Lion + Galleries + Aames
Friday 20th July – Holy Esque + Queen Jane + The Mirror Trap + The 10:04s
Saturday 21st July – Jack Butler + Selective Service + Mickey 9′s + Kobi
Sunday 22nd July – The Recovery! + Hunt / Gather + Fat Janitor + No Island
Monday 23rd July – The Unwinding Hours + Olympic Swimmers + Dead Electric
Tuesday 24th July – Fires Attract + Scarlet Shift + The Darien Venture + Crusades
Wednesday 25th July – Randolph's Leap + Jonny Jack + Blue Sky Archives + Bronagh Monahan
Thursday 26th July – DARC + The Mouse That Ate The Cat + Johnny And The Giros + TeKlo

Tickets are on sale now from gigsinscotland.com or by calling 08444 999 990 and in person from King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut.  There will be a limited number of Golden Tickets on sale allowing holders entry into every show, with details available at kingtuts.co.uk.

Scottish Fiction Podcast - 16th April 2012

Despite the mysterious looking tree up above, there's no mystery behind the music on this week's podcast.  Featuring plenty of new Scottish music, including five tracks from artists nominated for The SAY Award.  Listen back and enjoy!

Any Colour Black - You

Mixing It Up - Counting Crows - Mr Jones - As chosen by Jamie Sparks

We Were Promised Jetpacks - Human Error
Satellite Dub - Trying To Stop A Tank With Your Hands
Mike Nisbet - Not Long
Vladimir - Cold Winter Grasp
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Bats In The Attic
Collar Up - The Fear Of Love

Peenko Friday Freebie - Seams - 8

Adam Holmes And The Embers - Autumn Leaves
Wrongnote - Heart Of A Rat
Thula Borah - Murder
Bwani Junction - Middle Meadow
Father Sculptor - Blue
Johnny And The Giros - For Ourselves
Stanley - Join Hands
Jonny - Goldmine
Aggi Doom - Bring Me The Head
A Band Called Quinn feat. Kid Loco - Oh Jackie
Without Aeroplanes - Just So You're Warm
Steve Mason & Dennis Bovell - Understand My Dub
Admiral Fallow - The Paper Trench

Scottish Fiction - 16th April 2012 by Scottish Fiction on Mixcloud