Paisley’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...
Read MoreAs moral panic around punk reached a fever pitch, Paisley found itself at the vanguard of a watershed moment in culture. Constructed in collaboration with Paisley.Is, we get the real story from those who immersed themselves in rebellion. In a way that mirrors our modern world, the mid-‘70s was propelled forward by two unmistakable...
Read MorePaisley’s own The Vegan Leather are back and with an added helping of ferocity on their new single “Who’s Knocking On My Door?” Although their music has always been deceptively heavy in its composition, the four piece’s latest offering see them at their most untethered to date. Delving headlong into uncharted territory with a...
Read MoreAlthough it flew under our radar at time of release, the past few weeks have allowed us to acquaint ourselves with Settle by Paisley-based producer Arbo. A purveyor of hypnotic soundscapes that encapsulate everything from the visionary work of Steve Reich through to Moby‘s creative height and contemporary forces of innovation such as Floating...
Read MoreWith some help from friends of the magazine, we delve into the halcyon days of Paisley’s spell as an epicentre for nightlife while keeping one eye on its future. For many years, saying that you were heading to Paisley for a night out would be met with scrutinising looks. Seen as an area that’d...
Read MoreConfined to their sitting rooms rather than their second home of the stage, a crop of Scotland’s finest musical talent told us what iconic tracks they love to put their own spin on. Mill’s Top 10 Cover Versions Compiled by Robert Blair This feature was published in Mill issue 10 September/October 2020.
Read MoreVeterans of the scene, we spoke to The Deep Shining Sea’s Stevie Hillcoat about influences, physical copies and Paisley’s musical rebirth. How did the band come together? “Jamie (McLachlan, drums) and I were in a band called Lemonhaze that split in 2017, but we stuck together. I had an album’s worth of demos recorded...
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