2020 was a weird year in so many ways. But one definite outcome was that I bought fewer albums than I’ve done in previous years, albeit my spend on EPs (and live albums) probably went up significantly. Partly that was down to a lack of visits to record shops. Whilst my pre-order shopping would be…
2020 Singles/ EPs
2020 is the first year that I’ve not concentrated on singles that I’ve bought but have included songs from streaming to compile this list. To qualify a streaming track has had to be released as a single AND received a number of plays as a single in the MPT household . Taking Bob Mould’s singles…
2020 Live
Despite 2020’s gigging being necessarily curtailed, we still squeezed in 8 different shows in to the restricted calendar, 7 before lockdown and an unexpected open air encore in September. Show of the year was undoubtedly Sleater-Kinney at the Barrowlands (above) (even more so if I can count STOOR at Mono the same evening as their…
The World Is Not Perfect – Rick Redbeard live
Rick Redbeard – Hospitalfield, Arbroath – Saturday 12th September 2020 (2020 Gig #8) I confess that I felt that my gigging year was over when the pandemic hit . There was a brief hope when *that* series of drive-in gigs were announced a few weeks ago (including Ash at Ingliston for which we secured good…
Greatest That Petrol Emotion Song?
Some of you may recall me running a Twitter event last year to find the Greatest Bunnymen song. Well, from Friday 2nd October, I’m doing something similar with That Petrol Emotion. The event will follow a similar (but tweaked) structure to the Bunnymen version last year. As far as possible it will be dealt with…
Song of the Week #18 (2020) – Big Joanie
Can’t let this one pass without comment. The new single from Big Joanie is going to be a cover of Solange’s ‘Cranes In The Sky’. If you’ve seen Big Joanie in the last 18 months, you’ll recognise one of the highlights of the live set. The single is coming out on 7″ through Third Man…
