THE SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT

I've some important visitors to look after this weekend, and dont expect I'll have time for a lengthy Sunday posting rounding up the week's activities.

In a nutshell - there were two free gigs in Glasgow, both of which turned out to be pretty special. The first of these was last Monday with the launch of Midnight Organ Fight, the magnificent new LP from Frightened Rabbit. The band played almost all of the songs, including live premieres of a couple of the slower numbers, one of which - Poke - had almost everyone in tears at the end.

If you haven't yet bought a copy of Midnight Organ Fight, well you're missing out on something special. And if you have already bought it, why not do what I did yesterday and buy a second copy to pass onto a friend who is still in ignornace of this amazing bunch of boys and their equally amazing bunch of songs....

Then on Thursday afternoon, I met up with a couple of friends (including Comrade Colin) for a catch-up over a tea/coffee/hot chocolate at a place called Tinderbox in the city centre. What none of us knew was that Stevie Jackson from Belle & Sebastian was playing a small inimate gig in ana adjacent art gallery/shop as as part of a local fectival. So in we went....and the added pleasure came from seeing his sound engineer was none other than Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub....while we also spotted Gerry Love of TFC, Stephen Pastel and Duglas T Stewart in the small and exclusive audience. There may well have been other legends of the Glasgow scene there as well...

All that remains is to put up a couple songs to mark these two never to be repeated 'concerts':-

mp3 : Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper (live)
mp3 : Belle & Sebastian - To Be Myself Completely

The first is from a live recording at the recent SXSW festival in Austin, Texas (and thanks to The Pop Cop for his help with this), while the latter is from the LP The Life Pursuit.

This week's song from the vaults of TVV is one that has featured a couple of times, but was requested by a new reader who wished to remain anonymous:-

mp3 : The Bible - Mahalia (extended version)

An exciting week lies ahead - gigs by Edwyn Collins on Monday & Tuesday, and according to reports, the guitarist in his band is going to be none other than Roddy Frame.

But before then, I'll be posting #25 in the 45 45s at 45 rundown.....it's from a rather popular beat-combo who are not from Scotland.....