It's good to care about something. Having live music and club nights back is something I'll not take for granted ever again.The news doesn’t make for pleasant reading. New COVID variants abound. The government lies – no shit. COP26 hasn’t halted the climate crisis. And yet, as 2021 draws to a close, those final days of increasingly limited daylight playing out, many will … [Read more...] about 2021: cause for celebration the year live music came back
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We will dance, oh how we will dance!
It’s now been over a year since I played a gig and it’ll soon be a full year before I’ve been to one. That's a long time and the yearning continues, gets stronger with every passing day. There’s nothing that can quite live up to the thrill of live performance. I realise now that it was something I took for granted. The support bands, the expensive pints, the impassioned … [Read more...] about We will dance, oh how we will dance!
What’s the future for Scotland’s live music?
The Seed Ensemble were the last band I saw live, back on a Sunday evening in March at Glasgow’s Glad Café. Led by alto-saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi, the ten-strong group of young Londoners are a shining example of why the UK’s thriving jazz community is attracting so much attention: fusing musical traditions from Africa and the Caribbean, celebrating black British culture, and … [Read more...] about What’s the future for Scotland’s live music?