HANNEY FESTIVAL 4TH JULY LINE UP!
AMAZINGLY THERE'S STILL TICKETS LEFT! GET YOURS AT THE DOGHOUSE NOW! PRICED £10
FULL LINE UP SO FAR

AFTER PARTY @ SOUL NIGHTCLUB
FREE ENTRY WITH GUEST PASS ONLY

Toadtastic 02.00-03.30
The Electrolites(live set) 01.30-02.00
Baxter Park Sunbather 12.00-01.30

EVENING(indoors)DOGHOUSE

S.I.R.&Drumtrap of Big Big Sound(dj set) DJ Set 22.30-00.00
Hanney 21.30-22.30
R.B.R.B.R. 20.30-21.15
Yoshi 19.45-20.15
Arkanna 18.30-19.15


DAYTIME(outdoor)DOGHOUSE

Zone(live art) all day
Marked Vinyl(turntablism) 17.30-18.25
Pro Styles Crew(breakdancing) 17.20-17.30
Kemikal(human beatbox) 17.00-17.20
The Vetacore(acousic) 16.20-17.00
Mark Thomson(poetry) 16.00-16.20
Peg and the Bouffants(acoustic) 15.30-16.00
Wobble(acoustic) 15.00-15.30
OPEN MIC and possibly more tbc 13.00-15.00

Absolutely full of talent and diversity you'd be a fool to miss this event.
There will also be a BBQ and "SOULARIZED", a stall selling chakra healing stones and insence for your souls!!

PEACE LOVE UNITY HANNEY AND THE AWAKENING OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE MASSES!!

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My Latest Novel interview: Rewrite stuff

Published Date: 16 May 2009
By DOUG JOHNSTONE
BAND NAMES DON'T ALWAYS TELL you much. In the case of My Latest Novel, though, you at least get a glimpse of where the Greenock five-piece outfit are coming from. Aspirational, confident and happy to throw literary references about in their songs, the band might not be actual novelists, but they certainly have the ambition to create a body of work that would stand alongside other art forms, and transcend the often narrow mindset of your average indie band.
And My Latest Novel are far from your average indie band. They first popped their heads above the parapets with their delightfully strange debut album, Wolves, in 2006. Released on Bella Union, the well-respected indie label run by former Cocteau Twins members Simon Raymonde and Robin Guthrie, the album was a brash and complex affair, mixing sprawling indie noise with folk tendencies, throwing violin, xylophones and oddball percussion into the usual guitar-bass-drums equation with an abandon that was impressive, even if their obvious potential remained a little unfulfilled.

Most noticeable about the racket they made were the vocals. Not only were they lacing four-part harmonies together, they were also tripping the ear up with overlapping melodies and vocal lines, and everyone was singing in an unabashed Scottish brogue, something still relatively unusual at the time.

Favourable comparisons were made with the leftfield epic rock of Canada's Arcade Fire, and rightly so, although My Latest Novel had enough of their own personality to ensure that their sound is utterly distinctive.

Since Wolves came out, a whole raft of similar-sounding bands have emerged on the Scottish indie scene, from Frightened Rabbit to the ramshackle folk-pop of Edinburgh's Broken Records, and from the flights of Beefheartian fantasy of The Phantom Band to the rampaging noise of The Twilight Sad. (You could, if you wanted to, call it a movement – see below). My Latest Novel, though, don't hold much truck with comparisons between themselves and their contemporaries.

"It's really hard to see similarities between your own band and someone else's," says violinist and vocalist Laura McFarlane.

"Just because we've got this perception of what we are, which is probably nothing like what anybody else thinks."

"The only thing we all have in common is singing in Scottish accents," says singer and bassist Chris Deveney. "Loads of bands recently have embraced the way they naturally sound – nobody's hiding behind an American accent anymore, and that can only be a good thing."

We're sitting in Mono in Glasgow with McFarlane, Deveney and his brother Gary, who also sings and plays guitar, the band line-up being completed by Ryan King (drums) and Paul McGeachy (vocals and guitar). The three band members present are visibly excited.

After a three-year absence, they're set to release their second album, Deaths and Entrances, and they have good reason to be enthusiastic about it. The new album is a big step up in ambition, musicianship and songwriting compared to Wolves, a more cohesive piece of music and an altogether bigger, fuller-sounding beast.

Much of that coherency, the band say, is down to the way the new songs were written. Secreted away for almost two years in a crumbling derelict pub in Greenock with no windows and a hole in the roof, My Latest Novel started again from scratch, completely reinventing how they went about things.

"We did it a weird way," says Chris. "We never just wrote one song, finished it and moved onto the next one, we actually wrote 11 or 12 songs at the same time, dipping into each one as we went along." "Because of that process, it would be hard for the new album to sound like just a disjointed collection of songs," agrees Laura.

"When we got the band together, the first thing

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FatCat
We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls


Cards on the table: We Were Promised Jetpacks' signing to FatCat was a surprise to many music fans watching the Scottish unsigned music scene. It was thought by a fair few of us that there were better undiscovered gems out there, and that Jetpacks would struggle to follow-up the preceding FatCat releases from north of the border: The Twilight Sad's awesomely powerful debut album and Frightened Rabbit's widely acclaimed ‘The Midnight Organ Fight’.

Hands up: Jetpacks have proved us doubters wrong – ‘These Four Walls’ can stand proudly alongside both those brilliant records. The Edinburgh four-piece were actually brought to FatCat's attention by Frightened Rabbit, and have made good on their early promise with new, improved recordings of previously heard tracks; even better new tracks; and an attitude to constructing an album-as-whole that makes ‘These Four Walls’ greater than the sum of its parts. In fact, it's one of the best Scottish debuts for years.

It's mostly all about the rhythms. Like early Echo & The Bunnymen and U2, Jetpacks know that propulsive drums can be hugely effective without any concessions to funk or swing. It seems an obvious tactic, but by building everything on top of rollicking percussion from drummer Darren Lackie, Jetpacks ramp up tension for singer Adam Thompson to powerfully unleash. It's demonstrated best on ‘Short Bursts’, the fast-rolling drums on which sound huge, and in a hurry to get somewhere. A sombre, ominous opening is ripped up by scratching guitars and splaying hi-hats, Thompson yells, guitars fall away and tease themselves back in, the bass pokes a head round the door; "We'll teach you to die!" prompts an almighty squalling racket and, then, everyone leaves, steps out… and just the huge drums remain.

If it seems kinda simple on paper, it's exhilarating in practice, and the way they use driving 4/4 rhythms throughout gives ‘These Four Walls’ an undeniable energy. Check out the catalytic beats of ‘Quiet Little Voices’, which support a repeating three-chord riff and Thompson's anthemic chorus - it's sure to be a festival favourite this year.

Thompson's a romantic young guy, whose lyrics are repeated regularly so they become more like mantras. You won't forget his protective advice to "stay calm" or to "keep warm" or to "make time for us", because he says it again and again. But lyrics aren't really important here - too-clever wordplay would be implausible for a vocalist who hollers like Thompson, on a record that's more about sweaty youthful urgency than thoughtful rumination.

And such incessant rhythms could get formulaic, but Jetpacks have thought of that, too. The fifth track is a percussion-less instrumental interlude, an atmospheric drift and swell that sets the scene for the second half; and the tenth and final track is a beautiful acoustic-only lament, which eases us home with a sigh. Again, that's a standard album closer tactic, and yes, Jetpacks' debut album follows a big bunch of unwritten rules about how to meticulously construct an epic song, or an anthemic chorus, or whatever. But they've just taken good advice about how to get the most out of their songs, and most importantly, how to not be just another pedestrian indie-rock band.

The secret? Don't walk, run.

8/10

Words: Ally Brown

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See them tonight (Wednesday) @ The Doghouse