Music-lovers across Renfrewshire are set to enjoy a bumper line-up of great gigs in October with the announcement of this year’s Spree for All programme. Established in recent years as a ‘fringe festival’ to Paisley’s annual The Spree festival, the Spree for All will see events take place in towns and villages throughout Renfrewshire...
Read MoreWhen live music was placed on pause, The Bungalow underwent a quiet but immensely valuable transformation. Now, Paisley’s preeminent venue is ready to reclaim its prominent place in our cultural landscape. Although it has taken on many different forms over the years, the moniker of “The Bungalow” is ubiquitous with music in Paisley. First...
Read MoreFor some people, performing live is one of the most exhilarating – or petrifying – things that you can do. But for Kathy Sledge of the legendary sibling outfit Sister Sledge, it is hardwired into her very DNA. First acquainted with the stage when she was still in her mid-teens, entertaining lively throngs of people...
Read MoreFresh from her appearance in the most recent print edition of Mill Magazine, Empress is back and asserting her dominance over Scottish hip-hop once more with The Raw, The Rugged. Ever since the release of her phenomenal, Steg-G produced debut album Love Wins last year, the Paisley-based MC has been unyielding in her quest to...
Read MoreBy this point, it’s safe to say that our admiration for the musical stylings of Linzi Clark is clear for all to see. Pairing a remarkable vocal range with a lyrical brevity that allows her to make incisions into your heart and soul with ease, her debut album is undoubtedly one of our most...
Read MoreJust days away from her headline show at the fabled King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Cara Rose has released her enrapturing new single Let Go. Glasgow-based but with Lochwinnoch roots, Cara’s songwriting leads with an inviting candidness that feels as though it’s providing a window into the most turbulent – or sometimes serene and self-assured...
Read MorePaisley’s popular music, comedy and arts festival The Spree will return in 2021 with The Twilight Sad, Arab Strap and Nadine Shah among the bumper line-up coming to town this October. This year’s festival will take place from 7 – 16 October with shows being staged in the iconic Salon Perdu Spiegeltent, which will...
Read MoreAt a time when optimism isn’t exactly a well-stocked commodity, the latest single from the ever-exhilarating Tom McGuire & The Brassholes sees the group looking to reaffirm that not all is lost through a bombastic blend of funk, pop and a glass half full outlook. Very much cut from their own kaledioscopic cloth, Better...
Read MoreHailing from right here in Paisley, Evelyn Laurie is a chanteuse with a keen sense of her identity as an artist. Keenly intermingling the worlds of jazz and traditional Scottish music that’s normally rendered in a more folk-based palette, Evelyn is by no means short on ambition and was resoundingly rewarded for it on...
Read MoreFrom growing up Lewis to making a new home in Renfrewshire, Graham MacIver has a wealth of life experience to divulge. Now, as the frontman of Bensider, he’s channelling it through intimate folk and Americana. You came to songwriting in your 40s. What inspired you to take the leap? I’ve played music since I...
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