Liverpool Sound City 2012
Writer Profile: Aidan Rivett
Aidan Rivett
Location: Glasgow
Beard: No
Tattoos: Yes
Favourite Tipple: White Russian
1st Music Purchase: Limp Bizkit- Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavoured Water *Facepalm*
Best Famous Beard: Neil Fallon (Clutch)
Guilty Pleasure: Kanye West
My recent activity
Gig
I first became aware of Daniel Lopatin (AKA Oneohtrix Point Never) at All Tomorrow’s Parties last year. He appeared as one of Animal Collective’s choices and I recall lying on the floor in a drunken haze, absorbing the strange fuzz...
Album Review
Sleep Party People / We Were Drifting on a Sad Song
A gentle piano melody drifts into life, an eerie melancholy singing voice joins in, strings enter to accompany the keys. They toy with each other before the strings and plucked chords take over and that peculiar vocal can be heard again. As it moves...
Album Review
The Trapped Tigers / Numbers 1-13
Three Trapped Tigers delivered their debut album Route One or Die last year to the delight of most of us here at Beardrock. It showcased a band with incredible technical prowess and a focus that a lot of their contemporaries could only dream of....
Album Stubble - Unsigned
Good Weather for an Airstrike / Underneath the Stars
2011 was a great year for ambient music. A great year. With sure-fire cult classics coming out in the form of Tim Hecker’s Ravedeath 1972, A Winged Victory for the Sullen’s debut, Oneothrix Point Never’s incredible electronic opus...
Album Review
The Caretaker / Patience (After Sebald)
Last year’s album An Empty Bliss Beyond this world was an album critically applauded for its use of carefully selected samples and the experimental inspiration for the project: Alzheimer’s patients’ ability to recall better with...
Gig
Tonight is a sellout and it’s getting quite difficult to move around. The Arches in Glasgow is a repossessed set of subway tunnels that have become a venue which hosts everything from clubs and gigs to business conferences and, apparently at...
Interview
I walk into the venue on a Sunday evening to find Dustin O’Halloran and Adam Wiltzie still sound checking with their trio of strings players and surprisingly, still teaching them how to get their parts just right. Their attention to detail on...
Gig
It’s a chilly night in Glasgow outside as you breathe in it’s the kind of cold that stings your nose and even has the potential to make you a bit lightheaded. Fortunately downstairs in the venue it’s....bloody freezing as well. The...
Album Review
Smashing Pumpkins / Gish / Siamese Dream 2011 Reissue
I remember when I was younger, around about the time MTV shifted away from actually playing music videos and started preoccupying itself with how many vintage throw rugs and motorcycles the band members own. In amongst the increasingly rare music...
Gig
What can you say about Arab Strap? A rather odd-sounding Scottish group driven by two equally odd Scottish chaps in Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton, known for their melancholy tunes of drunken mishaps, failed relationships and the trials and...
