This was going to be great when it was just Broken Records and The Little Kicks playing, but we’ve just got wind of the fact that superb Edinburgh twisted country merchant Withered Hand has been added to the bill too.  Bonus.

Anyway, for those who don’t know, Broken Records (who also hail from the Capital) are signed to 4AD, use lots of strings and horns, have a little hint of East European folk about them (but remain unmistakably Scottish) and are probably pissed off that people keep comparing them to The Arcade Fire.  They’re also bloody good.

The other support comes in the shape of local indie-popsters The Little Kicks, whom you’ve probably heard of by now if you’ve been paying any attention whatsoever to this site.  For the slow ones up the back, you can hear them on our podcast…

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One thing we absolutely want to do here on The Kiosque is increase our coverage of local bands and DJs.  With our new format and a podcast up and running now, it’s going to be far easier to highlight some of the great music that’s being made around the North-East at the moment, which in turn will hopefully have a knock-on effect on gig attendances, CD/record sales, downloads etc.

However, this raises a few questions:  Are we going to  big things up  just because they’re local?  Are we in danger of falling into a trap that means we’ll look at everything through Granite-tinted spectacles? (an unlikely product I know but hey, any entrepreneurs are welcome to the patent).  Most importantly, how can we avoid this?  We’d like to think that the stuff we’ll point you towards will be featured for the sole reason that it’s good,  in our opinion of course,  however, we don’t expect for a moment that you’ll agree with everything,  it would be totally naive to do so.

Anyway, what prompted this bout of hand-wringing is a post on the Scotsman’s excellent Under The Radar blog in which another (equally worthy) Scottish music site, The Pop Cop accuses them of a scatter-gun approach to the bands they cover, claiming there are only twelve new acts in Scotland worth listening to each year.  Now, I’m pretty sure I could rattle off at least 6 bands (probably more) in Aberdeen alone that are worth some ear-time, all of whom could cut it on far bigger stages than the local/Scottish scene if given the chance. So, what do you think?

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So, here we are with our first ever podcast…

This one’s solely music (and a couple of jingles/idents) but we hope to have speech, interviews and a whole lot more in future episodes.

Anyway, all the music here is local and the podcast features some exclusive tracks from Bedford Milne, AKA Steven Milne of The Little Kicks and Iain Macpherson (who produced most of the stuff you’re about to hear, cheers Iain!),  singer-songwriter JJ Bull (of 10 Easy Wishes) and a brand new disco-funk monster from Funky Transport and Giles Walker which is forthcoming on Brazil’s Lunatic Jazz Records…

Indian Red Lopez (creating a bit of a buzz at the moment and pictured below), Stanley, aforementioned indiepop mainstays The Little Kicks, exiled Aberdonians (doing rather well for themselves these days thank you very much)  The Xcerts and the sweet-of-voice Amber Wilson also feature, as does a remix of the Lopez boys by Fence Records types OnTheFly…

Enjoy.

Tracklisting:

1. Duck Soup / JJ Bull 3:30

2. Sleep / Amber Wilson (feat. Gavin McGinty) 4:05

3. Leave It Up To You / Stanley 4:01

4. Nightschool / The Xcerts 2:53

5. Join Hands / Stanley 4:17

6. Best Of times / Bedford Milne 4:05

7. 121 Miles / JJ Bull 4:03

8. Know It’s Over / The Little Kicks 4:08

9. An Iron Fist / Indian Red Lopez 3:52

10. Ropes(Onthefly Remix) / Indian Red Lopez 5:12

11. I’m a Man / Funky Transport & Giles Walker 7:27

(If you’ve any ideas for future podcasts, don’t hesitate to get in touch )

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