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LIVE<br />
July<br />
Paul Simon<br />
Wednesday 11th July 6.30pm<br />
SSE Hydro, thessehydro.com<br />
Where do you start when previewing<br />
a Paul Simon gig? His seven decade<br />
career, over 100 million albums<br />
sold, the sixteen Grammys, his 1987<br />
ground breaking album 'Graceland'?<br />
Quite a legacy to leave behind and<br />
by all accounts this is his final ever<br />
tour (He’s 77 years old now), so if<br />
he’s on your bucket list then you kind<br />
of have to go to this one.<br />
I’ve always had a soft spot for<br />
Paul Simon, his sense of melody/<br />
rhythm and guitar playing are just<br />
so compelling to me. As a 20 year<br />
old in the mid 80s I found myself<br />
working in the same recording studio<br />
in New York where they were piecing<br />
together his album 'Graceland'. Every<br />
morning I would turn up at the studio<br />
and hear all these incredible African<br />
rhythms, harmonies and melodies<br />
emanating from the other side of the<br />
door at Studio One at Sigma Sound on<br />
Broadway. Made quite an impression<br />
on me. His standards have never<br />
slipped either with his 2016 album<br />
'Stranger To Stranger' regularly<br />
playing in my kitchen. I’ll be going.<br />
Choice Tracks:<br />
Paul Simon 'Wristband'<br />
Fazerdaze<br />
Sunday 22nd July 7.30pm<br />
The Hug & Pint, thehugandpint.com<br />
If you like your Indie pop soft and<br />
dreamy then Fazerdaze is definitely<br />
for you. Cure and Pixies fans<br />
will also find something here to<br />
like. Fazerdaze is the project of<br />
Amelia Murray, a 25 year old indie<br />
songwriter from Wellington, New<br />
Zealand who mostly sings about<br />
young life’s transitional moments.<br />
She released her debut self-titled<br />
EP in October 2014, recording it<br />
entirely in her bedroom studio in<br />
Auckland for the legendary Kiwi pop<br />
label Flying Nun Records.<br />
She’s out with her four piece band<br />
on a world tour promoting her 2017<br />
album 'Morningside'. Go see her if<br />
you dare to dream.<br />
Choice track: Fazerdaze ‘Lucky Girl’<br />
Doghouse Roses<br />
Wednesday 25th July 8pm<br />
The Doublet, @thedoubletbar<br />
I really like Doghouse Roses. This<br />
alt-folk duo from Glasgow are Paul<br />
Tasker and Iona MacDonald who both<br />
sing and play guitar. They formed in<br />
2006 through a shared love of all<br />
things Gillian Welch, Pentangle &<br />
Airport Convention with smatterings<br />
of Trad and Americana thrown in for<br />
good measure too. Iona MacDonald<br />
takes on the roll of lead vocalist<br />
with Tasker singing the lower<br />
harmony when required. She really<br />
has such an engagingly beautiful<br />
voice and coupled with Tasker’s skill<br />
and dexterity on guitar they fully<br />
deserve the tag '… Glasgow’s version<br />
of Gillian Welch & David Rawlings …'<br />
(I personally think MacDonald has a<br />
much nicer voice than Welch)<br />
They’re playing upstairs at The<br />
Doublet, a little gem of a place<br />
hidden between GWR and Kelvingrove<br />
Park. You’ll need to make sure you go<br />
early though if you want a seat.<br />
Choice Track: Doghouse Roses<br />
'To Decide'
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