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Andy

About Me

I handle the Scottish element of the indie and unsigned bands website The Mag, write for isthismusic? magazine, Disorder Magazine and RoomThirteen music website. On line links are available at the left hand side Home | Browse | Search | Invite | Film | Mail | Blog | Favorites | Forum | Groups | Events | Videos | Music | Comedy | Classifieds

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

People who aren't overly keen on meeting people.
And bands....and bands who want reviewed...and bands who want to talk about other bands.....and just people who like music.

My Blog

The Raconteurs

New album, a progression in sound and another success http://www.roomthirteen.com/cgi-bin/cd_view.cgi?CDID=7996 "Like so many albums of the time, it is perhaps overly long and a more selective select...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:56:00 GMT

Freelancing

Okay, Im way behind the score with this one but who else has gotten into freelance writing? I’m on elance : http://www.elance.com Invite me to bid on your project: Username AndyRe If you can str...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:05:00 GMT

Getting into bands too early

What is it? Am I too snobby and I go off bands when they get more info out there or is it just due to the fact that its too easy to gorge on a new band when tehy first come out but by the time they ni...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:45:00 GMT

That was a week that was

Quite a busy old time. Last Sunday was spent watching :(  (its pronounced colon open bracket, crazy kids) in Tuts and were thoroughly enjoyable - review coming soon in isthismusic? Monday - Union...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:50:00 GMT

Scotlands Newest Hitmakers

In case anyone missed this last week: Reporting Scotland Jack Vettriano Ian Rankin and Saint Judes Infirmary. Great song and a good looking video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIkBfwRpedM  
Posted by on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 10:29:00 GMT

Secret For A Song

Mercury Rev have a new collection coming out soon - it contains all their hits......okay, thats an overstatement...but theres a large bundle of great songs available. I really like Mercury Rev....I th...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:29:00 GMT

Krautrock...space-rock!

....whatever title or genre is going onto this sound of music these days, I just want to say how much I'm enjoying the debut album by The Early Years.Fans of Can, Neu!, Spiritualized and the Beta Band...
Posted by on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:33:00 GMT

The White Stripes / The Simpsons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwJ_dFPX1WY A link to Youtube showing Jack and Meg on the show. I do think The Hardest Button To Button is my favourite White Stripes vid (yes, even beating the Kate Mos...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:11:00 GMT

Updated Pics and musings.

Clearing out my camera, so I've stuck some from Indian Summer up. Whats going on? Nowt much really....quite busy with reviews, cd and gigs. British Sea Power were surprisingly good on Friday night - a...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:05:00 GMT

TDK Cross Central Festival

Phew...that was a day out. In interests of cheapness and deciding how far we can push ourselves, three of us went down to the TDK Cross Central festival in London and flew back up afterwards. The fest...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 14:20:00 GMT