It started off as a fairly straightforward plan really – Edinburgh-based music-related gibberish to clog up the internet a bit further, except with the occasional session, plus some other nonsense.

I started this little blog a few years ago just to keep track of which bands were playing at SXSW – it’s a bit sad (for me), but SXSW has become such a behemoth – and is such an obviously good time – that tons of proper media outlets now cover it in greater depth than before. It’s less fun, but the deepest coverage now comes from the pros, although the bloggers out there still do an awesome job of it. So, anyway, the point is I no longer really get into the band lists in the way I used to.

I was based in Edinburgh for nearly nine years (although I’m only a tiny bit Scottish), and spent a fair amount of time listening to and occasionally writing about local bands there. I’ve moved to Sydney now, so I’d guess this site will start to slowly fill up with excitable gibberish about local Australian bands instead. Scotland’s still one of the most fertile musical fields in the world though, so I’d guess I’ll still rabbit on about bands from back home, even though it’ll be a bit weird writing about Scottish bands in eighty degree sunshine. Weird, but not entirely unpleasant.

I also co-run Off The Beaten Tracks, where we take bands into the odd little nooks and crannies in and around Edinburgh and record acoustic sessions, and various other bits and pieces across the internet. I’m kind of hoping I get round to doing some in Oz, too.

Anyway, that’s me – if you’d like to say hello, or even if you want to contribute to the site, please do, I’m pretty friendly.

Cheers,

Alex