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Tall, avuncular and with the reassuringly tweedy air of a financially insecure Kelsey Grammar, James Yorkston is the quietly rising future of folk-tinged British songwriters. While still a member of East Neuk’s Fence Collective, a loose conglomeration of songwriterly souls that also spawned KT Tunstall, King Creosote and The Beta Band, Yorkston’s forthcoming album, When [...]
Cellardyke in the East Neuk of Fife is not notable for many things. Home to influential musicians, the Fence Collective and Britain's first case of bird flu it's an otherwise unremarkable place, almost imperceptible from Anstruther, its bigger brasher...
“Last week Tennent's Lager launched Tennent's Mutual, a new music venture that will ultimately result in a live music festival this fall, in which fans select artists, debate locations for gigs and call the shots on ticket prices. To kick off the effort, Tennent's created a start-up fund of GBP 150,000. Fans who sign up [...]
The hitherto unexplored link between Manchester and Croatia is about to get a lot stronger as Manchester’s long-established and legendary club Electric Chair launches a three-day mini-festival in the gorgeous Croatian coastal village of Petrcane. Electric Chair issued a final jolt in its former home, Manchester’s Music Box, in January 2008. Much missed in the city, this festival sees Electric Chair...
I’ve always had a slightly ambivalent attitude to múm. This was partly due to Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir’s kindergarten vocals, but also the band's forays into cloying toyshop tweeness. At their best, though, the sweetness carried just enough of an undercurrent of darkness to work. With Kristín off in search of fame and fortune as a solo [...]
We've already written about a number of efforts to crowdfund and crowdmanage music bands, and now in Scotland a crowdmanaged music festival is in the works that was prefunded by a local brand. Last week Tennent's Lager launched Tennent's...
The 28th Toadcast is all about the Fence Collective. People who read this site regularly must know them, I assume, but I’ve been intending to do this post for a while as they might be my favourite label in music at the moment. After Kenny Anderson’s last band fell apart about ten years ago or [...]
My weekly appearance on The Waiting Room included a very scant intro to The Fence Collective this week, and was entirely overshadowed by DC’s lovely missus, and also his interview and live recordings with Peter & the Wolf. In fact, my bit on Fence was by necessity so cursory and superficial that I may actually [...]
The Glimmers: The Glimmers grace Radio Magnetic with a mix to coincide with their European tour and current album "Ghee Ghee Fazzi". Bulleit Sessions: Prankster pop people Found (Latest Fence Collective Signing) present the first episode of the Bulleit Sessions podcast series featuring Ray Charles guitarist Guitar Shorty, The Aliens and Found as well as how to make a Bulleit cocktail. Mochipet Mix:...
Did I mention that my head hurt on the Saturday? Would you be surprised to know that it hurt on the Sunday as well? Didn’t think so. I skipped Beefball, to my shame, and only managed to pootle along to music-related shenanigans by about two in the afternoon. It was like [...]
The reason the truly excellent Campfires & Battlefields took over all things Toad this weekend is that I was away with Mrs. Toad, and he very kindly volunteered to keep things ticking over in our absence. You will surely all join me in thanking him for his excellent job, and I guess you may [...]
THE Fence Collective's annual Anstruther hometown gathering – Homegame – can only exist, it seems, in spite of the odds. In previous years festival organisers have had to
