Live Review: Glasvegas
Just the briefest glimpse of James Allan’s knocking knees on Later… With Jools Holland last month was proof enough that something was awry in the state of Glasvegas . Allan’s typically belting lungs sounded short on oxygen, and his oddly...
Glasvegas - EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\...
Get James Allan going on the lyrics of his band’s second album, and you’ll find it hard to get him stopped. Ask him to describe its sounds, though, and he’s consistently responded with just one phrase: “like a dream”. That those three...
Glasvegas, Concert Hall, Troon
With recent press stories about singing to a bowl of goldfish and posing for pictures wearing ski goggles, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Glasvegas frontman James Allan has finally gone a bit Jack Torrance. “All work and no play makes...
10 Tracks You Have To Hear This Week -...
1. Glasvegas - 'The World Is Yours' And so, the first fury from Glasvegas’ brilliantly titled second album, ‘EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\’, not so much creeps out of their LA studio doorway as blasts the door off its hinges, making it...
Live Review: Glasvegas
Five American tours in, it’s hard to believe Glasvegas have waited this long to finally visit their half-namesake city. The black-clad Scottish foursome – either still hungover or still drinking after last night’s club bender – have been...
Glasvegas
Forget any preconceived stereotypes you may have about Glasvegas fans all being darkly dressed mopesters still struggling with the emotional after-effects of a fatherless childhood. 2009 is going to be the year their fanbase reaches way beyond...
Glasvegas
When James Allan peered over his shades at the record company-bankrolled lunch and said yes, he would sign their contract, but he didn’t want a chauffeur, a monkey butler or a sponsorship deal with a leading sunglasses manufacturer brokered as...
Glasvegas
First, a question: what is the point of rock’n’roll? There are as many answers as there are people to ask, but surely one essential tenet is that great rock affirms life. Which brings us to ‘Stabbed’, one of the most unsettling moments on...
Glasvegas
Alright, it’s already been TOTW, but ‘Daddy’s Gone’’s power only continues to swell. Essentially Jeremy Kyle imagined by My Bloody Valentine, it’s one of those rare beasts: a tune guaranteed to spend the next 10 years soundtracking the...
Glasvegas
They may look like the lobotomy T-Birds, but not since Arcade Fire has a band been so immensely human. This song is about a woman called Geraldine, a social worker who apparently gave up her job to follow the band about, officially to flog their...
