After a bit of a long break, due to the Mogwai lads touring the globe, the Mogcast returns stronger than ever. This month we welcome Steev and Simon from Errors into the Radio Magnetic studio to present the new episode. It doesn’t disappoint. Music from Brian Eno, Wooden Shjips, Conrad Scnitzler, Chris and Cosey, Geneva Jacuzzi and Errors themselves in amongst the many belters. Enjoy!

Errors released their new album, Have Some Faith In Magic on Rock Action on Monday 30 January. Go buy it.

Tracklist

1. Obsidian Pond – Freedom Falling
2. Brian Eno – Silver Morning
3. Benoit Wildemann – Etre Les Lignes
4. Michael Hoenig – Sun and Moon
5. Conrad Schnitzler – Ballet Statique
6. Forma – 2.35
7. Amen Dunes – Christopher
8. Wooden Shjips – Lazy Bones
9. Psychic Ills – I’ll Follow You Through The Floor
10. White Fold – End of Now
11. Chris & Cosey – Chiron
12. Errors – Pleasure Places
13. In Afternam Vale – Give Me Your Money George
14. Robert Schroeder – Galactic Floor
15. d’Eon – Transparency
16. Andy Clark – Funk-U-Like
17. Computer Jay – Vice
18. Geneva Jacuzzi – Do I Sad?
19. Maria Minerva – These Days
20. Sun Araw – Impluvium
21. Errors – Blank Media

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It’s that time of the year again, and as February comes around in the city of Glasgow once again so does the Glasgow Film Festival (GFF). Running from Thursday 16 February till Sunday 26 February and spanning across 16 different venues across the city, including a swimming pool and The Tall Ship, the GFF always offers many unique and exciting experiences for locals and visitors to Glasgow.

As well as some of the best of global cinema, both new and old, this year will transcend the big screen to include many enticing special events in addition to various live and interactive happenings. With so much going on to choose from Radio Magnetic has done a bit of research and pulled together some of the things we are most looking forward to seeing for your browsing pleasure.

Naturally the first thing that jumps out at us on the programme is the Music and Film festival section. Called a festival within the festival there is some truly enough great stuff happening, and enough to immerse yourself in that you could quite easily dedicate your whole festival experience to this one part of the GFF. Cry Parrot presents: Umberto looks a particular highlight. Umberto is a true master of the horror soundtrack, think John Carpenter’s dark and unsettling synth-work crossed with the disturbing prog-rock of Goblin. He will be flying over from Kansas for this special performance on Saturday 25 February at SWG3, the film he will be providing the soundtrack for remains a secret, but whatever he chooses we are sure it will be a terrifying night’s entertainment. We are also excited by the performance of space and electro rock pioneers Silver Apples appearance on Sunday 26 February at Mono. Formed in the New York in 1968, Silver Apples were well ahead of their time, ignoring the psychedelic rock going on around them in 60’s New York they instead opted to create a minimalist experimental electro sound that influenced countless musicians, including Suicide and Kraftwerk. We really can’t recommend getting a ticket to this enough.

There is also a retrospective of the work of revered Scottish filmmaker Douglas Hart, perhaps best known for his cutting edge promo videos for the likes of My Bloody Valentine, Stone Roses, Primal Scream and Paul Weller. And, in 2009 Glasgow indie-pop outfit, Butcher Boy performed a live soundtrack to Scottish director Enrico Cocozza’s film Chick’s Day at Glasgow Film Theatre. Glasgow Short Film festival is delighted to invite the band to perform to film again, in a special event for this year’s Festival at the Berkeley Suite. Both these music related events at the film festival should be worth checking out. And, a film sure to have a fantastic a soundtrack is the Scottish screen debut of Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy. A must-see.

Filmaticly, GFF has been offering a diverse variety of cinematic genres, styles and experiences since its inception and this year is no different. One of the best cinematic experiences you can have at the GFF is the Frightfest’s frightpass, which offers you the chance to see 11 horror films over two days. It is a truly great and unsettling happening and in our opinion there really is no better way to watch horror films than one after the other with minimal rest bite. Beginning on Friday 24 February and running right through till the following evening, it’s always a unique experience to submerge yourself in film after film in the GFT’s large cinema, breaking only to get snacks, go to the bathroom and get a quick kip before returning the following morning for further frights. Some of the creepiest highlights include the ‘found footage’ shockumentary Evidence, apocalyptic dystopian adventure, The Day and the UK premiere of chilling slasher flick Rites of Spring. The brand new strand, Crossing The Line series of experimental films also has some wonderfully bizarre looking events and films including 85A Present: Jan Svankmajer, Finisterrae and The Forgotten Space.

When a festival can lurch from the depths of horror goodness to a celebration of Weimar Republic Germany’s cabaret tradition then it’s quite obvious that it’s got some variety about it, and so it is as GFF presents Weimarvellous. Adding some glamour to the cold winter months Weimarvellous kicks off with a screening of Blue Angel in the CCA on Friday 17 February. Featuring the queen of Cabaret, Marlene Dietrich as Lola-Lola, a Cabaret performer and femme fatal who is the downfall of besotted high school tutor Immanual Rath, The Blue Angel is a true classic. With Cabaret performances in the CCA bar after the film and a chance for you to to perform in Cabaroke (Cabaret themed Karaoke) it should be a cracking night to glam yourself up and strut your stuff.

There is so much really credible and exciting stuff to see at this year’s GFF we couldn’t possibly cover it all but suffice to say that whatever you’re into, you will find something that suits you at Glasgow Film Festival 2012. The above are our top picks.

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Breda Doherty from Radio Magnetic and Dead Sound caught up with RM Hubbert, the much revered Glasgow guitarist on the eve of his second solo album release, Thirteen Lost & Found. They discuss the collaborative writing process the album was built around, why Hubbert felt the recording studio was the most comfortable environment to reconnect with old friends, the personal experiences behind his music and his understandable love for The Minutemen.

Thirteen Lost & Found is available now through Chemikal Underground. Produced by Alex Kapronos and featuring collaborations with Aidan Moffat, Emma Pollock and Luke Sutherland as well as solo compositions from Hubbert Thirteen Lost & Found looks set to be one of the most critically acclaimed and truly unique albums of 2012.

Watch the video for new single, Sunbeam Melts The Hour featuring Marion Kenny & Hanna Tuulikki below.

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In association with the Hyphae festival, an innovative music platform which provides insight into the nowadays exploding digital and web-based music culture, and presented by Josh Hill (Wavy Graves) & Joe Howe (Ben Butler & Mousepad), A Global Video Party at the Old Hairdressers on Saturday 25 February from 8 – 12pm should be a terrific night of international musical goodness for only £5.

Sets will be beamed in downstairs from Jimmy Pe, Oknai, Mux Mool, Pazes and more, from locations such as Berlin, Lisbon and Brussels, with live sets from Stefan Bloemeier, Silk Cut and Ben Butler and Mousepad beamed out upstairs.

More info on the Facebook Event page.

Jim Gellatly selects 10 new tracks, including music from The Mixups, Hey Enemy, Eras, Aerials Up, Raymond Meade… and Hue And Cry?

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Tracklist

1. Hue And Cry ‘Little Man’ web
2. The Mixups ‘Your Side’ web
3. The Vespas ‘Satisfied’ web
4. Raymond Meade ‘Radio-Anna’ web
5. Hey Enemy ‘Snowy, Best Dog In The World’ web
6. James Mackenzie ‘Cap To Wear’ web
7. Eras ‘East Coast’ web
8. Aerials Up ‘The Old And The Innocent’ web
9. Whigs & Rakes ‘Swim’ web
10. Betatone Distraction ‘In The Loop’ web

Jim Gellatly presents 10 more slices of breaking music from Scotland… including tracks from Tango In The Attic, Happy Particles, Chris Devotion & The Expectations, My Tiny Robots & Anderson, McGinty, Webster, Ward and Fisher.

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Tracklist

1. Uniform ‘Is This Just What It Takes?’ web
2. Alice and the Rampant Trio ‘Take Somebody Home’ web
3. Chris Devotion & The Expectations ‘Tell The Girl’ web
4. Captain and the Kings ‘Can’t Go Back’ web
5. People, Places, Maps ‘Veins’ web
6. Anderson, McGinty, Webster, Ward and Fisher ‘How Long’ web
7. My Tiny Robots ‘Zut Alors’ web
8. Tango In The Attic ‘Easy Bones’ web
9. Happy Particles ‘Empty Circle’ web
10. The Machine Room ‘Your Head On The Floor Next Door’ web

*Apology from Jim “In this episode I mention that My Tiny Robots are originally from Fife. They are in fact, and always have been, from Edinburgh. I stupidly, not for the first time I’m sure, confused them with Tiny Little Robots (who are worth checking out as well). I’ve resisted the temptation to go back and edit it!”

In:Demand Uncut presenter Jim Gellatly selects 10 more songs… including the return of some Dundee favourites… the Edinburgh band fresh from opening for Primal Scream… and a healthy dose of tracks from Aberdeen and the North-east.

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Tracklist

1. The Cundeez ‘This Is Britain’ web
2. Matt Norris And The Moon ‘Shadow From The Sun’ web
3. : ( Colonopenbracket ‘Square Eyes’ web
4. Forest Fires ‘Best Intentions’ web
5. Hip Parade ‘Talk To Me’ web
6. RM Hubbert with Aidan Moffat & Alex Kapranos ‘Car Song’ web
7. Blue Sky Archives ‘Cosplay The Hard Way’ web
8. Burning Café ‘Put Me Under’ web
9. The Law ‘Holiday’ web
10. IndianRedLopez ‘Prometheus’ web

Platform in association with Celtic Connections presents two great and eclectic nights of music on Friday 20 and Saturday 21 January. We can’t wait for this.

The first sees the fantastic cult British Indian/indie-pop outift, Cornershop headlinine. Cornershop‘s latest album, Cornershop and the Double ‘O’ Groove Of  was released to critical acclaim back in March 2011. The LP was six years in the making and is a collaboration with Bubbley Kaur, a previously unrecorded Punjabi singer. Throughout their 20 year career Cornershop have managed to successfully combine their psychedelic sound of guitar and sitar within pop songs that as well as bringing mainstream success didn’t lose any of their cultural significance.

The biggest and most popular example of this heard on their 1997 album, When I Was Born for the 7th Time and the iconic and timeless Brimful of Asha, the unique sound of which lead to praise not only from John Peel but lead them to completing sold-out tours in the UK and supporting the likes of Oasis and Beck in the United States. Watch the video for new tune, United Provinces of India, taken from Cornershop and the Double ‘O’ Groove Of below.

In keeping with Celtic Connections‘ ethos of using the festival to bring together both local and global artistic talent, supporting Cornershop will be Glasgow’s own indie-pop group, 1990s.

Tickets cost £12.50/£10 and are available from the Platform box-office as well as Monorail, Tickets Scotland and Celtic Connections.

The following night it’s the turn of Laetitia Sadier, Jo Mango and Dan Haywood’s New Hawks to take to the Platform stage.

The amazing Laetitia Sadier is best known as the lead singer of Stereolab. When the band announced an indefinite hiatus in 2009 Laetitia set to work on what would be her first ‘official’ solo album The Trip. The record was well received by critics for it’s intensely emotive look at the sometimes unexpected personal kicks life can bring. Sadier is renowned for her beautiful and sometimes unexpected live performances which you can get a preview of below.

Jo Mango is an alternative folk and acoustic band from Glasgow and also the adopted name of the group’s front-woman and primary songwriter. Mango has collaborated with musicians such as David Byrne, Devandra Banhart, Vashti Bunyan and Teenage Fanclub. During the gig Jo Mango will premiere a brand new work created especially for Celtic Connections, There Was and There was Not… a collection of songs inspired by Angela Carter’s wild and dark, Book of Fairy Tales.

Dan Haywood’s New Hawks are a new literate voice on the British musical landscape. Their epic scope marries transatlantic cosmic roots music with a poetic and soulful British folk. A rambling, rolling band whose crazed stage presence, with various players swapping instruments and psychic powers amongst themselves, has already assured them cult status.

Tickets cost £10/£7.50 and can be purchased from the Platform box-office, Monorail, Tickets Scotland and Celtic Connections.

Both events include bus transport to and from Mono to Platform, costing £4 and leaving promptly at 6.30pm!

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New music guru Jim Gellatly presents more emerging music from Scotland… including musicians formally based in Sweden… a young singer from Edinburgh who shone at the One To Watch final… and an act tipped for big things by a leading blogger.

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Tracklist

1. The Little Kicks ‘Do Something New’ web
2. Tom Vevers ‘Sirens’ web
3. Mechanical Smile ‘Close Your Eyes’ web
4. People, Places, Maps ‘Sarah’s Song’ web
5. Capitals ‘Sinking Ships’ web
6. Pareto ‘The Antidote’ web
7. Holy Esque ‘Rose’ web
8. Galleries ‘Young Wounds’ web
9. There Will Be Fireworks ‘Harmonium Song’ web
10. Tall Tales ‘Windows 98′ web

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The Window, from Seattle-based duo Lux comes from their debut LP, We Are Not The Same out in April. Inspired by some of the most essential artists of the era of indie and underground music (Pavement, The Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, The Magnetic Fields, The Jesus & Mary Chain, New Order, Blondie), the band, Leah Rosen and David Chandler trade off vocals, guitars, synths and drum programming on the record which they also wrote, recorded and mixed themselves.

We love it. And, hope you do too!

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