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The stuff that isn’t about wrestling.

Inside Llewyn Davis

Image courtesy of Llewyn Davis

Inside Llewyn Davis is the latest release from the Cohen brothers and tells the story of a struggling Greenwich village folk musician.  Llewyn Davis’s life is an endless circle of small gigs, crashing on friends floors and disappointment.  His previous musical relationship was cut short when his partner, Mike, committed suicide.  While the people he calls friends are not really his friends and more suffer him because without them he’d be dead.  Reading that back it all sounds rather depressing doesn’t it?

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Against Me – Transgender Dysphoria Blues

“No more troubled sleep, there’s a brave new world raging inside of me.”  Sometimes music transcends it’s genre.  It becomes a hell of a lot more important than words on a lyric sheet or notes in a song.  I think it’s fair to say that the latest Against Me album Transgender Dysphoria Blues could be placed into that category.  Telling the story of a women trapped inside the body of a man it follows lead singer Laura Jane Grace’s decision to come out as a transgender woman, it is a piece of music that tells much more than just the story hidden away within the songs.

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Skindred w/ SOiL and Viza. 27th January 2014 at Glasgow O2 ABC.

Skindred
I thought this picture looked a lot better when I first took it.

The fact that Skindred aren’t the biggest band in the world right now is a tragedy.  However, it is reassuring to look out over the Glasgow ABC and see that while it isn’t sold out, they have pulled one of the biggest crowds I’ve seen them play to outside of festival bills.  Maybe the message is finally getting out there about these incredible performers.

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Image courtesy of All is lost
Image courtesy of All is Lost

There have been very few films released in the last year that are as brave as All is Lost.  Which could easily have been called Robert Redford On A Boat.  If there are fifty words said in this film I would be surprised and apparently the script was only 32 pages long.  There is also only one actor in the entire film, the aforementioned Robert Redford.  If you can find me another film like that then it will be a rare one.

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Victorian Trout Conspiracy Interview

This article originally appeared in today’s Daily Record (22/1/2014) however was slightly cut so I figured I’d post the whole thing up here for anyone who was interested.  Enjoy!

The Breadalbane Arms in Aberfeldy has probably not played home to too many great musical moments.  However, for Edinburgh based ska band Victorian Trout Conspiracy it will live in their memories as the place they were joined on stage by Brit award winning singer songwriter Ed Sheeran.

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Bruce Springsteen – High Hopes

Bruce Springsteen is a man who should need no introduction, back with his eighteenth studio album High Hopes The Boss has taken the unusual decision of forgoing the normal writing process and instead releasing a selection of reworked tracks and some covers.  He’s joined, as usual, by The E Street Band but also be a few new additions including one Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine) who has been playing with the great man live.

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12 Years a Slave

Image courtesy of 12 years a slave
Image courtesy of 12 years a slave

So as we enter Oscar season it becomes clear that a certain kind of film begins to dominate our cinema screens.  Movies that are aiming for one of those nice shiny statues are out in force in the UK and one of the pack leaders stands in the form of Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave.  It’s a movie that tells the remarkable true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the early 1800’s.  It was nominated for 9 awards by the Academy and has so far appeared to receive universal acclaim.

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Bastions – Bedfellows: The Bastard Son

British hardcore gang Bastions are two albums into their career and appear to provide something different from the gang of Gallows inspired bands currently on the market.  Rather than being obsessed with being fast and brutal, this is a group that infuse their hardcore with emotion, in a style that is very similar to the likes of Touche Amore (although featuring less melody) and Converge.  Their latest release is an EP by the name of Bedfellows: The Bastard Son.

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