Author: Calum Murray

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Live

Bill Ryder-Jones at The Mash House

“These ones all sound pretty much the same”, Bill Ryder-Jones confesses mid-set to the half empty crowd of Edinburgh’s Mash House; the band has left the stage. There’s just Bill, his guitar and a mic as he begins to play another one of the melancholic emotional same ‘Put It Down Before YouBreak It’, a song about love and regret. At age 32 Bill […]

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Music

Slow Club

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Settling into my seat at the Pleasance theatre I was aware that Valentine’s day, in all its brash consumerist glory, would never be the most suitable time for the heart-trampled ballads of Slow Club. An irony that singer Rebecca Taylor later indulges in with the announcement of “Dependable People”, a song about “a shit boyfriend […]