Record Store Day UK reveals limited edition 15th anniversary Rega turntable!

Posted on April 23, 2022 by MUSIC NEWS Scotland

RSD 2022 on 23 April – find your local shop @ http://www.recordstoreday.co.uk/shop-locator/

After two years of being forced to strip back their plans, record stores from Edinburgh to East Anglia, Belfast to Bristol are set to mark the 15th anniversary of Record Store Day in style with exclusive releases and events to cater for every taste and need on 23 April.

No Record Store Day is complete without the endless live music, performances and events taking place in shops all across the UK, making it one of the biggest simultaneous music parties in the calendar.

Fr 2022 Record Store Day UK is proud to unveil a 500 limited edition 15th anniversary Rega turntable to help celebrate the day in style!

Rega have been a long-time collaborator and official turntable sponsor of Record Store Day, with their exclusive RSD turntables becoming a hugely popular over the years. This year has seen them pull out all the stops to offer record collectors the chance to get their hands on a truly unique set up.

The 15th-anniversary RSD turntable is based on the multi-award-winning Rega Planar 1 and is customised with an exclusive Record Store Day mat, lid badge and silk screen logo.

Made by hand in the UK, the RSD 15th Anniversary Planar 1 uses a high specification low noise 24v motor, handmade RB110 precision tonearm and factory fitted Rega Carbon cartridge. The turntable delivers exceptional audio performance, can be set up in under 30 seconds and is supplied with Rega’s lifetime warranty for total peace of mind.

Rega said: “This is our 9th year as audio and turntable sponsors of RSDUK and we have seen this fantastic event continue to grow and evolve year on year. We are always delighted to play our small part in supporting the independent record stores and we are excited to bring back the RSD special edition turntable to celebrate the 15th anniversary.

These limited editions will retail for £299 and will only be available in store on the day, once they are gone they are gone, so be quick and get down to your participating record store or Rega dealer on the 23 April!”

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Wide Days music convention returns as a physical event in May – and apply now for International Talent Development Programme

Posted on January 16, 2022 by MUSIC NEWS Scotland

Deadline for applications Midnight Sunday 16th January @ http://www.widedays.com/apply-to-play

Wide Days is set to return to Edinburgh as a physical music convention from 19-21 May, with a conference, one-to-one meetings and live performances, as well as a range of informal networking opportunities including guided tours, whisky tasting and exotic soft-drink sampling. And drawing on the experience of hosting numerous online events, organisers are planning to incorporate a range of digital elements.

:: Alex Amor :: photo by Jannica Honey

As part of the convention, Wide Days will also showcase the six emerging Scottish acts, selected for the international talent development programme (presented in partnership with PRS Foundation). Chosen by a global panel of music industry professionals, it is open to musicians, producers and DJs of any genre who apply via a free application process (deadline 16 January).

“Over the past 20 months we have been able to build on our international ties, connecting Scottish artists and industry professionals with their counterparts around the world and initiating some great partnerships,” says Wide Days founder, Olaf Furniss. “We are looking forward to being able to meet in-person next May, while adding online elements such as pre-event meetings to match up delegates and speakers participate remotely.”

PRS Foundation CEO, Joe Frankland adds:

“Wide Days has always been a key moment in the music industry calendar and an important platform for Scotland’s emerging music creators,” he says. “Artists on its talent development programme have a history of developing their careers in the UK and breaking through internationally, and we are looking forward to seeing the impact the showcase will have on the of the six acts selected for 2022.”

The conference programme will include a theme on how music export opportunities can be developed by working with other industries such as tourism and gaming, and in response to audience feedback, the 15 Minutes Of Knowledge strand will be expanded. For the past three years this has provided a essential information on a range of topics including PR, Social Media and Digital Releases.

Individuals who have played a key role in developing Scottish talent will to be honoured in the Local Hero sessions and Wide Days will continue working with charity Attitude Is Everything to explore how the music industry can become more accommodating for disabled music professionals and audiences. Details of the conference programme will follow in the new year.

Tickets for the event go on sale @ http://www.widedays.com/tickets-2022

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Scotland’s Folk Musicians Up Their Game With Post-Pandemic Social Media Support – Apply Now

Posted on October 26, 2021 by MUSIC NEWS Scotland

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Folk musicians in Scotland are being offered specialist support to improve their presence on social media platforms thanks to a new initiative from some of Scotland’s leading music organisations.

SocialFolk, funded by Creative Scotland, offers musicians the chance to sign up to free one-to-one social media training with social media experts. Gill Maxwell, Executive Director of the Scottish Music Centre, one of the SocialFolk partners, said, ‘The covid-19 pandemic has brought about many challenges for the music industry, not least the need for artists to possess a broad range of skills and knowledge across social media platforms. The loss of live work and need to adapt to new and unfamiliar ways of working in the past eighteen months has brought this sharply into focus.’

The SocialFolk website, which launches on Monday October 25, is according to Lisa Whytock of Showcase Scotland Expo, ‘a one-stop shop Scotland-based traditional, folk, acoustic and roots musicians to hone their digital marketing skills.’

It contains free social media and digital marketing advice videos delivered by top folk musicians including Daniel Gillespie of Skerryvore and former BBC Young Trad Musician of the Year, Kristan Harvey. Harvey who plays with the bands, Blazin Fiddles and Fara said, ‘Getting to grips with social media has been a huge learning curve for me. I’ve invested a lot of time figuring out our audience and where our market is, using the demographic material that the platforms make available.’

David Francis, Director of the Traditional Music Forum, commented, ‘We had discovered anecdotally that many artists are not confident about their social media skills: they are unsure about what content to post, how often and where. Those anecdotal impressions were underscored by the formal survey we undertook in last year in which artists were asked about their understanding of social media, their awareness of various channels and how they can benefit artistic careers in an increasingly digital world.’

The organisers plan to make up to 60 one to one sessions available. Applications will be offered through a form on the website (link below).

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Scottish troubadour invited to take part in the Official Johnny Cash Heritage Festival, plus international collaborations, live tour dates and Sinner’s Shrine news

Posted on October 15, 2021 by MUSIC NEWS Scotland

Leith’s Dean Owens is honoured to have been invited to take part in the Official Johnny Cash Heritage Festival (broadcasting from Dyess, Arkansas, USA, 15-16 Oct).

Pictured: From Cash Back in Fife with Dean Owens, Ian Rankin and Rab Noakes :: photo by Marc Marnie

Dean’s contribution includes some specially recorded songs and a talk about the Cash Back in Fife festival he organised in Fife in 2020, which celebrated Cash’s legacy including his family roots in Scotland.  The festival includes a concert by Rosanne Cash from the living room of Johnny’s boyhood home in Dyess, a starry lineup of performers, plus various presentations and the chance to interact online. Passes are valid for 7 days.

An annual event, organised by the Historic Dyess Colony: Johnny Cash Boyhood Home, 2021’s festival is embracing the global potential of being wholly online.

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Despite the global pandemic, award winning Scottish singer songwriter Dean Owens has found various ways to keep creating and releasing new music, finding inspiration from Leith to Tucson via Dyess USA.

He is honoured to have been invited to take part in the Official Johnny Cash Heritage Festival (broadcasting from Dyess, Arkansas, USA, 15-16 Oct). Dean’s contribution includes some specially recorded songs and a talk about the Cash Back in Fife festival he organised in Fife in 2020, which celebrated Cash’s legacy including his family roots in Scotland.  The festival includes a concert by Rosanne Cash from the living room of Johnny’s boyhood home in Dyess, a starry lineup of performers, plus various presentations and the chance to interact online. Passes are valid for 7 days. An annual event, organised by the Historic Dyess Colony: Johnny Cash Boyhood Home, 2021’s festival is embracing the global potential of being wholly online.

Dean is also delighted to finally see some light on the road back to live gigs, with dates booked for a short south of England tour with guitarist Jim Maving (including London, Brighton and Winchester) in November, before finishing 2021 with pre Christmas shows in Glasgow and Edinburgh, with his Southerners band and special guest Amy Geddes.

2021 started with a virtual live concert, with Calexico musicians Joey Burns and Martin Wenk, specially recorded long distance for Glasgow’s Celtic Connections, described by festival director Donald Shaw as ‘a hands across the water meeting of great songs and minds’

Sinner’s Shrine, the full album he recorded in Tucson just before lockdown, which got the full widescreen, Panavision, desert noir Calexico treatment, will finally be released mid Feb 2022 (a joint release by London’s Eel Pie Records and Netherlands’ CRS). In addition to members of Calexico, special guests include Grant-Lee Phillips and Gaby Moreno. While still rooted in Dean’s signature sound, each song sees him pushing the boundaries, adding some desert noir and Latin notes to his musical palette. 

The prelude to Sinner’s Shrine – a triple EP release – The Desert Trilogy – has been released throughout 2021, attracted glowing reviews across genres, and whetted appetites for the full album release.

These recordings are the latest stop on a lifetime’s journey – from the post industrial heartlands of Scotland to the untrammelled wide-open vistas of the American Southwest – as Dean  surrenders to the intoxicating sounds of the US desert states, with themes of love and lust, sinners and saints, the displaced, the wanderers and the border ghosts.

2021 also saw Dean collaborating with Edinburgh author Ian Rankin on a new track (Edinburgh Winter Blues) for the recently released The Wanderer album, tribute to the late, great Jackie Leven.  The album was compiled by Michael Weston King (My Darling Clementine) and includes contributions from Ralph McTell, Rab Noakes, Eliza Carthy, Boo Hewerdine and many more.

Dean has most recently been working with Kirsten Adamson (daughter of Big Country’s Stuart Adamson) helping her develop the songs for her new album, and they will shortly head into the studio for the recording, with Dean producing.

15-16 OCT – OFFICIAL JOHNNY CASH HERITAGE FESTIVAL (online)

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TOUR DATES …..

26 Oct – Leith Folk Club (solo show), Edinburgh

With guitarist Jim Maving

31 Oct – Kingsmead House Concerts, High Wycombe

1 Nov – The Greys, Brighton

2 Nov – Hyde Tavern, Winchester

4 Nov – CTZN Brewhouse, Twickenham

5 Nov – Sound Lounge, Sutton

6 Nov – Village Hall, Great Easton, Market Harborough

10 Dec – Village Hall, Pathhead (with Amy Geddes)

11 Dec – Hemelvaart, Ayton

Dean Owens & The Southerners

12 Dec – Glad Café, Glasgow

13 Dec – Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh (with Amy Geddes)

Feb  2022 – Sinner’s Shrine   Full vinyl, CD, digital release (joint release by Eel Pie Records (UK) and Continental Record Services (Netherlands))

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Glasgow Americana returns with yet another strong and varied line up between the 29 September- 3 October

Posted on September 29, 2021 by MUSIC NEWS Scotland

Glasgow Americana will have nine shows this year at six different venues over its 5-day period, bringing some of the best talent from home and abroad to Glasgow.

The opening night will feature UK-based Australian singer-songwriter Emily Barker who will perform in Cottiers Theatre in the West End. Kicking off the night and declaring GA officially open up will be Scottish singer-songwriter, Kirsten Adamson.

Thursday 30 September sees a choice of shows from local favourite and hugely talented Jill Jackson, who will play a headline show in Saint Lukes.

Organisers are so happy to see Nathan Bell making the trip to Glasgow in these troubled times for his Thursday show in The Admiral. Nathan has been steadily building an audience in Glasgow since his debut here at Celtic Connections 2017.

Long Ryders front man Sid Griffin plays The Admiral on Friday 1 October, meanwhile over in the South-Side Nashville-based singer Diana Jones plays a sold out show in The Glad Cafe.

The very talented Scottish singer-songwriter Roseanne Reid will headline the matinee show back in The Glad Cafe on Saturday 2 October, with the equally talented David Latto opening up the show.

Roseanne is doing a double shift on the Saturday and will be performing as part of a ‘Song Writers In The Round’, with Jill Jackson and multi-instrumentalist and hugely talented Cahalen Morrison.

Moving on to our final day, Sunday the 3 October, we are delighted to have the Seven Song Club back at the festival. This year, we will be showcasing Scottish talent, with Man Of The Minch, The Coaltown Daisies and Kirsteen Harvey taking the stage in Room 2.

We are thrilled to welcome My Darling Clementine back to Glasgow Americana as they continue to tour in support of their most recent, critically acclaimed album ‘Country Darkness – the songs of Elvis Costello’. The husband and wife duo of Michael Weston King and Lou Dalgleish play The CCA at 8pm.

Festival director Kevin Morris said: “I am so proud of this line up, which was put together at short notice and glad to be given the opportunity for the 15th Glasgow Americana festival to actually happen. The fact that a festival like Glasgow Americana can still exist, in what has been such a strange time for musicians, venues and promoters alike makes me happy. I would also like to thank Creative Scotland for their continued support in allowing the festival to go ahead.”

Full Line Up At A Glance

Opening Night Wednesday 29th September – Emily Barker Kirsten Adamson
Cottiers Theatre, 93-95 Hyndland St, Glasgow G11 5PU
Tickets £16, doors 7.30pm, 8pm start

Thursday 30th September – Nathan Bell plus Kirsteen Harvey
The Admiral Bar 72a Waterloo St, Glasgow G2 7DA
Tickets £13, doors 7.30pm, 8pm start

Thursday 30th September – Jill Jackson plus Chris Andreucci
Saint Lukes 17 Bain St, Glasgow G40 2JZ
Tickets £18.50, doors 7pm, 8pm start
Please read additional COVID measure in place for this show

Friday 1st October – Diana Jones plus support
The Glad Café 1006A Pollokshaws Rd, Glasgow G41 2HG
SOLD OUT
Doors 7.30pm, 8pm start

Friday 1st October – Sid Griffin plus Scott Ashworth
The Admiral Bar 72a Waterloo St, Glasgow G2 7DA
Tickets £13, doors 7.30pm, 8pm start
(In association with Sounds In The Suburbs)

Saturday 2nd October – Roseanne Reid plus David Latto
The Glad Café 1006A Pollokshaws Rd, Glasgow G41 2HG
Tickets £12, doors 3.30pm, 4pm start

Saturday 2nd October – Song Writers In The Round
Featuring Jill Jackson, Cahalen Morrison & Roseanne Reid
The Glad Café 1006A Pollokshaws Rd, Glasgow G41 2HG
Tickets £16, doors 7.30pm, 8pm start

Sunday 7th October – The Seven Song-Featuring Man Of The Minch, The Coaltown Daisies, and Kirsteen Harvey
Room 2 69 Nelson Mandela Pl, Glasgow G2 1QY
Tickets £12, doors 3.30pm, 4pm start

Sunday 7th October – Finale Night- My Darling Clementine plus Arksong
The CCA 350 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3JD
Tickets £15, doors 7.30pm, 8pm start

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