George Glen

Always lovely to play one of our favourite venues, and especially to celebrate Alan’s 25th Anniversary. Two full on sets with all our best bangers!

Sing In The City Party 2024 at the Barron Suite room at the Corn Exchange/Academy. Oh what a night! O2 Academy Edinburgh Not enough photos to get all 350 in! Everyone had a great party. xx

So glad we took a punt to go see the unkown to us Silvia Konstance Costan and Viktor L. Crux from Barcelona, but I had a feeling they would be something special … proved right! I love a bit of industrial me and with lots of other synth and techno experimentation thrown in they blasted us with non stop energy without a single pause. Out of breath dancing trying to keep up .. Incredible scenes!

Attended by George, Andy & Douglas

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We had a super time playing our 2nd “Rattlesnakes” show at Stereo in Glasgow last week. Cheers to everyone that came down too see us, it’s a great venue and we really appreciated the reaction to the songs. It’s a shame that we perhaps won’t play some of the Lloyd Cole And The Commotions songs again, but we think we did the album justice! Thanks also to Rhona Young for guesting on a few songs.

Thanks to everyone that came out for our first “Lloyd Cole – Rattlesnakes 40th Anniversary” show on Sunday. It was great fun and we think we did justice to this brilliant album. Another sell out show so be quick if you want to see us do it all again at Stereo in Glasgow on Thursday 24 October.

Thanks also to Julie from The Standard Grades for guesting on BV’s for a few songs. @stumaconie mentioned on BBC Radio 6 Music that he’d like to come along and see us – you’re on the guest list for Glasgow Stuart ! See playlist of selected videos below.

Picked up fellow ‘pondie’ Kenny for drive through and got chatting to many more excited for the latest episode of the ‘Sing To Tim’ reunion shows in memory of the late great Tim Smith. This was a pretty similar set to when I ‘experienced’ this last year in Leeds, but every bit as amazing and appreciated by so many devoted fans, deprived of live Cardiacs for so long.

Brilliant band, assembled from so many past band members, led so enthusiastically by the livewire Jon Poole. Also great to see my bass hero Jim Smith looking and sounding so well. I had a ticket for the next night in Newcastle, but was glad I didn’t go, since Jim took ill during that set which had to be abandoned! This though was the full bhuna and another memorable occasion, Tim’s spirit actually present in the room with us! Exhilarating and moving. xx

Attended by George & Kenny

Really enjoyed what I have seen/heard about Plantoid, and I was not dissapointed … they’re brilliant! Jazzy, Proggy, Mathy, Shoegazey (whatever else they can imagine)… a heady melding of genres, but all works beautifully to my mind and they clearly love playing with such skill and variety. Magic. Must see again soon!

Attended by George

We had a blast playing in Glasgow tonight ! Thanks to Bowie Blinders for asking us along, and for the very lovely audience as well. Slay is a great venue and we hope to be back soon.

I’m such a massive fan! After that magnificent evening at Barrowlands last time in Glasgow, SWG3 seemed a bit low key, but so many super fans made a big atmosphere in a relatively small room for such an important band. Last time was just before Covid struck and the world is a different place now. But Sleater Kinney were back with the same line-up and though songs from new album ‘Little Rope’ were out in force, they didn’t let us down with a storming set of their very best.

I got talking with random people down front from USA and London, instant best pals with so much in common in our love for SK! And Corin just about came into the front row to join us with her walkabout section to sing ‘Untidy Creature’ to us from inches away … magical! What a great occasion again from just about my favourite band in the whole wide world! xx

Attended by George

Never miss Natasha Khan when she comes to town so this special Edinburgh Festival event was a must. Got great seats down the front too. Arriving on stage she started with some solo interpretive dance, and with some poetry reading later this made the show a bit different though that’s not really my cup of tea! Joined by Laura Groves on keys it was also great to see Charlotte Hatherley on guitars and bass.

Her latest album ‘The Dream of Delphi’, inspired by her daughter comprised much of the set, but we did get a smattering of old favourites including ‘Tahiti’, ‘Sarah’, ‘Daniel’ and final song ‘Laura’. New songs not really doing that much for me but, much as I said last time, nice person, nice music and a nice evening appreciated greatly by nice, loyal fans.

Attended by George & Karen