Album: JAMES DEVANE – James Devane (Trans<Parent Radiation TRANS013 2008)

This was reviewed on the excellent Mapsadasical (which you probably read – if you don’t, you should). It sounded too good to miss, so I downloaded a (free) copy to have a listen myself. James Devane is based in San Francisco, and his self-titled album is an impressive beast indeed. The nine tracks are named after [...]

Gig: Oxjam Music Festival (various venues, Ashton Lane, Glasgow, 26/10/08)

I spent six hours of yesterday’s Oxfam organized Oxjam Music Festival spending a semi-nomadic existence, flitting from bar to bar and trying to catch as many of the sixty or so acts on offer as I could. What I did see was a mere fraction – it couldn’t have been anything else. The general standard [...]