Friday 5th March saw Victor Woronowicz, Head Promoter of Innuendub drop in for a chat to talk to The Sound Spektrum about the capital’s newest Dubstep Extraveganza and an exclusive competition where you could win 1 of 5 tickets to the night!

To be in with a chance on winning, answer this question :

What was voted best Dubstep track of 2009 by the Dubstep Forum Awards 2010?

Send your answer via email with the subject headed INNUENDUB to: edinburgh-dubstep@live.com

Winners will be chosen via a raffle at random by Victor and announced Live on The Sound Spektrum on Fresh Air 12th March @ 22.00 UK Time!

Innuendub Part 1

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Reviewed by Ali Quaile. Few bands have been as consistent in the quality of their music as Hot Chip. From their debut album ‘Coming on Strong’ in 2004 they have been giving us their quirky electronic pop which the nation can’t get enough of. Their latest album ‘One Life Stand’ is no exception containing its fair share of blippy synthesizers, drum machines and Alex Taylor’s dulcet falsetto. The epitome of geek chic, Hot Chip manages to combine an array of electronic instruments with heartfelt lyrics giving us their original sound. Read More

Lawrence Mason reviews the show

To kick off their UK mini-tour, Danish pop sensations Alphabeat headed to Glasgow.

On entering the Classic Grand, it felt as though you’d just entered an under 18s club. It almost felt ravey, yet the neon was brand new, not dusted off from the Klaxons era circa 2007.

Headed by the pairing of Stine, and Anders SG, the six-piece band kicked off the set with two songs from their as yet unreleased second album. Despite ignorance of the lyrics, the crowd responded frantically, switching attention between the energetic thrashing of Anders SG, and the sultry, yet goofy charms of Stine. Read More

By Freddie Blackett

My respect for Andrew Strauss, England cricket captain, soared a few years ago when I was told that, from time to time, he turns up for his old school side on a Sunday afternoon. I was shocked that a man whose profession, career and living is cricket can have the interest and desire to ‘go into work’ on the sacred Sunday morning. Since then and especially nowadays as a final year student desperately seeking a career path that can keep me enthused for forty years, I haven’t encountered someone with such overt desire in his or her work, but I certainly met two of them last night in the figures of Dave Lee (a.k.a. Joey Negro) and Gareth Somerville.

I met them at the Ultragroove, held every other Saturday at Cabaret Voltaire, and had the pleasure to chat to two men who between them have over fifty years experience in dance music, coming together, with others to celebrate the tenth anniversary of this club night. Ten years is a hell of a long time in an industry that rids itself of aimless and genre-confused club nights as quickly as it churns them out. Read More

Richard Vause considers the merits of the new Editors album.

First things first for Editors’ 3rd album; the name. There is nothing wrong with In This Light and On This Evening, but I just can’t help thinking it would have much more of a ring to it as ‘On This Night and In This Light’. 4-year-old-esque insistences on rhymes in poems, songs and (apparently) album titles aside, I was curious as what we’d be getting from them Editors boys this time around. After two impressive, platinum albums of epic, guitar tunes, Editors’ change in direction is a surprise. Goodbye guitar-basis and hello a new, synth-driven, electronic style. Think ‘Editors in Space’.

And after my initial listen I was not convinced by this switch at all. As a fan of The Back Room and An End Has A Start I was disappointed to hear an album that sounded as uninteresting as vocalist Tom Michael Henry Smith’s name. Apparently there was just one set sound repeated on all 9 tracks, with no stand out songs to come anywhere near the levels of Munich, Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors or The Racing Rats. However, after a few more listens the industrial, Kraftwerk-inspired sound was starting to grow on me. Read More

Jonathan Hamilton checks out the bands making waves on the scene to see if they could live up to the hype in a live setting.

On Wednesday I headed to Sneaky Pete’s to catch a glimpse at Girls, the widely acclaimed San Francisco band on their first headline tour of Europe, but it was the support band, Swanton Bombs, who deserved the hype .

Taking to the stage to a sold out crowd, Swanton Bombs played a short set, consisting of a few songs off the bands demo album “Smoke over Swanton”, but mostly new material from the upcoming debut album, which is out in January. Opening with a solo piece from guitarist/vocalist Dominic McGuiness, the set quickly erupts into a blisteringly tight performance of the bands unique blend of foot-tapping indie, blues, and punk.

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Dave Dawnay and Jason Hadlow caught up with Sam and Henry of Zero 7 ahead of their Queens Hall concert.

Fresh Air: How’s it going guys?

H: World tour? Yeah it’s alright it’s not bad. It just sounds very grand, doesn’t it? I suppose it is though.
S: I mean so far it’s a UK tour. We deal with one bit at a time. Hopefully, it will be a world tour but we’re not quite there yet.

Fresh Air: In November you’re playing in Tel Aviv aren’t you?

S: That’s right, yeah.

Fresh Air: Is there a big zero 7 following in Israel?

S: No idea. I have never been before. We’re going to Argentina next week, where we’ve never played and then we’ve got the gig in Tel Aviv, where we’ve never played. So it should be quite an interesting few weeks! Read More

Dave Dawnay reviews Zero 7’s controversial new material live.

The comments surrounding Zero 7’s new album, Yeah Ghost, have been far from unanimous in their appraisal. The change in their direction, dynamic and sound was clear to see watching them play at the Queen’s Hall on Monday.

They burst onto the stage with a ripping techno rock sound that instantly dispelled my expectations of seeing the ambient, chilled out Zero 7 that we all know and love. Read More

By Shan Bertelli

On Sunday the 11th, The Corn Exchange opened its doors to a large audience composed of that select age group that actually feels nostalgia for the 90s. As the lights dimmed down, the crowd bristled in anticipation of such classics as ‘Shaking That Ass,’ and ‘By The River’, but they were in for a surprise.

Edinburgh was the second stop on the Black Light tour which Tom Finlay claimed would show ‘…the darker side of Groove Armada… finally coming out after 12 years.’

The band opted to devote more time to new songs as opposed to more recognisable ones, including one song featuring lead singer Ross Duffy, of opening act Fenech-Soler. A sparkly unsigned band, they showed a great deal of potential.
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Dan Moss reports from the most dramatic gig of the year so far…(stay tuned for our exclusive interview with Hugo White!)

I’ve just heard that Bloc Party have announced to a no doubt disappointed army of Welsh fans that they are having to pull out of their Newport gig because of their guitarist’s impending and necessary surgery. Just a couple of days earlier at the other end of the UK, The Maccabees’ Scottish fans are faced with a slightly different proposition.

The whole band is ill. Not quite rush-me-to-hospital ill, but suffice to say the South Londoners are dosed up to the max with Lemsip and Calpol. When a distinctly peaky Orlando Weeks takes to the ABC stage, compensating for his state with a dazzling reflective shirt, it’s not with refreshing pint in hand, but rather an oddly coloured drink that one imagines contains a fair degree of honey and lemon. Read More

Judith Dryden reviews the fabulous Paolo Nutini’s sell out show.

Last night I was welcomed in to Paolo Nutini’s living room to share some red wine. Hang on, that was just a dream. Actually I joined a sell out crowd at the Caird Hall to watch Paolo perform in front of a stage set out to resemble a Paisley living room.

Now, it’s pretty difficult to be subjective about your future husband (oops, sorry, dreaming again) so I have done my research and can confirm that everyone else there loves the boy too. And I say boy, as it would be easy to forget that this “old soul in a handsome young guise” is still only 22 years old. Read More

Oona Haas talks music and literature with James Blackshaw after his show at St. Paul’s Church.

Oona (FA): So how did you think the show went?

James: Great. Yeah, I was really happy with it. I’m pretty tired. I’ve been touring quite a bit for the last 4 or 5 weeks. But, yeah, in a funny kind of way I think my best shows happen when I’m at my breaking point. (laughs)

Oona (FA): The atmosphere of the show was quite intimate with a seated audience. When a show is set up like that, how can you tell if your audience is getting off to your music? Read More

Joshua Angrave reviews Simian Mobile Disco on their current tour promoting new album ‘Temporary Pleasures’.

As far as promoters are concerned it doesn’t get much better than booking SMD. Bursting onto the scene with their highly credited debut, Attack Decay Sustain Release, they are one of many acts, including the likes of Justice, Digitalism and Klaxons, to change popular opinion on the dance genre, and make 2007 the year of Electronica. Read More

**** (FOUR)/5

Vested interest: I had classes with Marcus Mumford when I was a first-year classicist, on the rare occasion that he turned up. He dropped out after first year, so we will never see how great a Hellenist Mumford would have become. Academia’s loss is The Sons’ gain, however, as the debut Mumfs LP hits ears at last, proving that Mumford is a keener student of songcraft than Cicero. Read More

Jason Hadlow caught up with Warner Music’s Animal Kingdom at King Tuts Wah Wah Hut Glasgow about the importance of making music people can feel.

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