Showing posts with label dream pop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dream pop. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

WILD AGAIN, LEITH DEPOT, EDINBURGH, JUNE 21 2025

 Typically wonky selection from FUZZBAT in the sweatbox that is Leith Depot. 

Line-up:

ERRANT BOY: Not exactly in the first flush of youth, these jangly indie types have been away for a while, but are back with new material. Sitting somewhere in the space between the Smiths and Talking Heads, but sounding like neither of them, the songs have a whiff of wistful nostalgia about them.



VIDEO:   https://youtu.be/0E2-bVMiSv8    https://errantmedia.bandcamp.com/album/memory-fractures

PORTABLE HEADS: Insanely skilful lads from Dundee. A rousing blend of prog, psych, noise, and post-punk, and very, very sweaty, despite some interesting trouser choices. Drummer appeared about to spontaneously combust at any moment. Caught them a few times now, and this was probably the best set I've seen them play.




VIDEO:   https://youtu.be/61DZRNMqfkI   https://www.facebook.com/portableheads

WILD AGAIN:  Hard to classify, these folks. Formed from the remains of DEAD WHITE MALES, they're not quite post-rock, not quite prog, not quite folk, not quite dream-pop, not quite shoegaze, not quite a lot of things. Mostly, but not entirely, floaty and ethereal, they retain the use of Just Intonation which so characterised the sound of DWM, but now with added violin and no drums.






VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/5bqh7M9BH7Q    https://wildagain.bandcamp.com/album/wild-again


Saturday, September 9, 2023

HALF FORMED THINGS, LA BELLE ANGELE,, EDINBURGH, NOVEMBER 10 2018

There's no photographs for this one, for some reason. I have no idea why. It was a long time ago. 

Line-up:

LOUISE McCRAW: Edinburgh singer/songwriter, sometime member of dream-pop band, SKJØR.  (SKJØR is Norwegian for 'fragile', which seems appropriate)

VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/MfPwiu-NS94   https://www.facebook.com/louisiana.mccraw

HALF FORMED THINGS: Experimental dream-pop sort of thing, for which the term 'cinematic' may have been invented. Sadly no longer together, but drummer Stewart (or maybe Edwin) now hits things for Young Fathers, amongst others, and guitarist Matthew is working on new stuff with singer/songwriter Tony Wright, ex of ASIWYFA.

VIDEO:   https://youtu.be/QjSNHM2YLBI   https://www.facebook.com/halfformedthings

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

HALF FORMED THINGS, WEE RED BAR, EDINBURGH, MAY 25 2019

 Venue: WEE RED BAR, EDINBURGH

Line-up:

GAZE IS GHOST: Blissful alt-folk loveliness from Laura McGarrigle and drummer Casey Miller.




HALF FORMED THINGS: 'Cinematic, experimental pop' from Matthew and Stewart(or maybe Edwin) ex of A FIGHT YOU CAN'T WIN, with gorgeous vocals by Morgan Hosking and percussion by the other Hosking sister, Nici(now sadly departed home to Australia)









GAZE IS GHOST  https://www.facebook.com/GazeisGhost

HALF FORMED THINGS   https://youtu.be/smsViAPNbNQ  https://www.facebook.com/halfformedthings

GASGIANT, SNEAKY PETE'S, EDINBURGH, NOVEMBER 1 2026

 Back from the dead! Line-up: STUART HONEYMAN : A very nice young man with a guitar. Songs about relationships, good and bad. Nice to see a ...