Beldina Odenyo Onassis got the attention of this reviewer when she was alive, but this album will hopefully bring her extraordinary art to an even wider audience. The incredible documentary ‘Bel’ is ...

Officially sold oot, the Doublet was actually quite comfortable (BM as usual stood at the bar) and sound tech Kenny worked his usual magic to get the levels just right for this somewhat usual gig ...

St. Patrick’s Day may be six months away, but it seems that the UK music scene is gaining a bit of a green tinge. There’s a spate of indie acts like Sprints and Gurriers making inroads while CMAT, ...

So here’s a thing. This reviewer loves music but hates musicals. Ok, maybe not hate all of them actively, but if they don’t annoy then they tend to bore… So here was a two hour musical which delivered ...

Leaving aside a support act that are best glossed over, the warm-up music had just been fantastic, classic 1990s shoegaze that still holds up well all these decades later. Then there was a change of ...

Scottish all-female four-piece The Marches have been on BM’s radar for a while but this is the first actual review. This is evocative, slightly Southern Gothic and very melodious, while also packing ...

There’s an organisational elegance to Big City Festival: ten acts, two tents (five acts a piece) with each band starting on one stage as another finishes a short walk across the field. This means it’s ...

‘Everything’s Getting Older’, Aidan Moffat once noted in the title of his award-wining album with Bill Wells. As one half of Arab Strap, the Falkirk-born songwriter has a reputation as a dour ...

This gig took place within the hallowed Debating Chamber of GUU, enemy territory for some but on this occasion let bygones be… it is a great place, with a professional level sound system, so let us ...

The third album release of the “Strap 2.0” period sees the original duo, who never really went their separate ways, continue their reanimated musical partnership after a lengthy period of solo ...

This rather great collaboration is between Scottish dreampop and experimental pioneer futurists Post Coal Prom Queen and the (unknown to BM until this) rapper Tickle – it covers dystopian areas but ...

Ooft – Hens Bens have upped the ante in their engagement with the culture wars with a full-on takedown of “controversial” TV writer/”comedian” Graham Linehan. In BM’s humble opinion it’s a complex ...