Showing posts with label The Winter Tradition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Winter Tradition. Show all posts

Friday, 30 November 2012

Battle Of The Bands - Round 10


What's that?  The urge for pulling hair, slapping and hand bags at dawn has returned?  Must be time for the fortnightly Battle Of The Bands in which fellow Glasgow blogger Kowalskiy and I face each other in the exalted arena of Top Trumps.  It all went down on Wednesday on Twitter, so if you like tension and tweets then have a read using the #battleofthebandsround10 hashtag.

In case you've forgotten, Round 9 saw things level out again at 4 wins a piece, and a draw in Round 1, meaning coming into Round 10 the scores on the doors were 5-5.  Helping me gain victory were lovely lasses TeenCanteen, whilst Kowalskiy had gone for solo star Arran Arctic.

Round 10 sees two brand new fighters step into the ring, as Kowalskiy and I choose two new bands and fight over their respective stats.  In team Scottish Fiction this time round is my favourite bearded singer songwriter... Shambles Miller!  Whilst across the ring stands The Winter Tradition.  Ready to fight?

Haud yer horse!  First up here's the standard reminder of the rules.  And our artists all important vital statistics.

Round 10 sees two brand new fighters step into the ring, as Kowalskiy and I choose two new bands and fight over their respective stats.  In team Scottish Fiction this time round is my favourite bearded singer songwriter... Shambles Miller!  Whilst across the ring stands The Winter Tradition.  Ready to fight?

Haud yer horse!  First up here's the standard reminder of the rules.  And our artists all important vital statistics.





















The battle began with Kowalskiy plumping for SoundCloud Tracks, given that The Winter Tradition boys had what must have seemed like a healthy 19.  However bolsters by his latest song 'Chris Brown Is A C***' Shambles won the point for Team Scottish Fiction with a massive 23 SoundCloud Tracks.  0-1 to Scottish Fiction.

Make or break time as we all know the second point is all important.  Staying with online attributes, Kowalskiy chose Twitter Follow Ratio, and The Winter Traditions 1.58 over Shambles Miller's 1.22, means the point went their way.  Even stevens,

Tensions often run high during Battle Of The Bands, but none higher than this last round.  I was hoping David would chose either Average Age or Band Name Scrabble Score and lo' behold he went for the latter.  Confident that Shambles score of 23 would hold up, the crushing disappointment began to sink in when David revealed that The Winter Tradition had pipped us by two points.  TWO POINTS!

Which means the balance is now tipped 6-5 in Kowalskiy's favour.  Until next week of course!

The Winter Tradition released their latest single 'Tides And Telegrams' complete with epic windswept video.  It's taken from their début album 'Gradients', which is out now folks.  Go get it!



Our favourite bearded singer-songwriter Shambles Miller put out his official début single 'Confessions' earlier this year, which we loved, and hosts a weekly open mic night every Sunday at the Vespbar in Glasgow.

Thursday, 29 November 2012

Scottish Fiction Podcast - 21st November 2012


On the latest Scottish Fiction Podcast is the live session from Gav Prentice who very kindly joined us in the studio recently.  Gav chats about his music, his influences, his début solo album 'The Invisible Hand' and his band Over The Wall.  There's a smattering of music chosen by Gav as well as two live tracks.

On top of that there's the usual serving of new alternative Scottish music, this week provided by Frightened Rabbit, Queen Jane, Michael Cassidy, The Winter Tradition and plenty more!  Enjoy!

Frightened Rabbit - Dead Now

Josh T. Pearson - Thou Art Loosed - As chosen by Gav Prentice

Gav Prentice - Give It Up - Live in Pulse 98.4 FM Studio


Gav Prentice - Burning Down - Live in Pulse 98.4 FM Studio

Robert Wyatt - Foreign Accents - As chosen by Gav Prentice

Queen Jane - Stop Pretending
The Winter Tradition - Tides And Telegrams
Michael Cassidy - Battleships
Arran Arctic - Window
CUR$ES - I Think I'm Alone Now
Mitchell Museum - Agnostic
Solareye - The Pageant
Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire - Queenstown
The Imagineers - Albert Einstein
Saint Death - El Metro


Saturday, 24 November 2012

Video Killed The Radio Star - Round Up

I did one of these a few weeks back which seemed to have been rather well received so as I've got some spare time today and there's a whole bunch of videos out recently, why not do it again!  Here's a selection of what people with video camera's have been doing recently.  Enjoy!

Failpopsters (yes I'm at a loss as well) So Many Animal Calls have a brand new single out on 3rd December via mega-brilliant Glasgow label Overlook Records.  'She Was Speaking From The Bottom Of The Sea' maintains the SMAC boy's excellent reputation for making music you can equally sway and rock out to.  Check out the video and grab the single when it drops.


Stanley Odd front man Solareye dropped his solo EP 'The Pageant' as a free download on Monday (pick it up here).  The EP features other Scottish hip-hop contributors Louie and Tickle, and this up close and personal video is for lead track 'The Pageant'.


Ahead of 'Pedestrian Verse' the fourth LP from Selkirk's finest Frightened Rabbit, the band have released a video filled with footage from their recent European and US tour for new track 'Dead Now'.  The album isn't out until 4th February 2013, but if you pre-order you will receive this track RIGHT NOW!  Woo!


If you like video's with tour footage then take a peek at Three Blind Wolves new video for their track 'Gold On The Cross' which features footage from their last jaunt to America.


Taking a pop shot at the need to 'invent' a benevolent all powerful creator and the promise of eternal bliss Admiral Fallow's latest single 'Isn't This World Enough??' features some wonderful scenery.  The single is out on 10th December. so in the meantime enjoy this video.


Last one this time round is The Winter Tradition with a video for their latest single 'Tides And Telegrams' taken off their album 'Gradients'.  It's a rousing track and the video features some rather epic instrument playing against the backdrop of a lighthouse.


Wednesday, 23 May 2012

Scottish Fiction Podcast - 21st May 2012


After a fun Saturday spent rounding around Glasgow, firstly putting up posters for the upcoming Scottish Fiction Presents Gig, and then dashing between venues for Stag & Dagger, it was good to put my feet up and play some cracking new music.  On this week's show there's new music from The Winter Tradition, Penfold, North American War and Rachel Sermanni.  We play a stonking track from CHURCHES in the Peenko Friday Freebies track, and our featured artist is one of the highlights from Stag & Dagger, The Phantom Band.  For all that and more, have a listen below.

Joy Division - Atmosphere
Napoleon's Dogs - Kings & Queens
Rachel Sermanni - Eggshells
Bacchanal Party - You Won't Get Far
Mad Nurse - Submissive

Peenko Friday Freebie - CHURCHES - Lies

North American War - Ivory And

Classic Scottish Album - Mogwai - Batcat - The Hawk Is Howling

Delifinger - Escapes
Jesus H. Foxx - So Much Water
Crusades - Pseudo Andro
Miaoux Miaoux - Snow
Olympic Swimmers - Knots
Night Noise Team - Picking Up The Pieces
The Beautiful Lies - For Far Too Long
wherehumanseat - Loom
The Winter Tradition - San Diego

Featured Artist
The Phantom Band - Halfhound
The Phantom Band - Everybody Knows It's True

Penfold - Echoes
PAWS - Linus Van Pelt
Admiral Fallow - The Paper Trench