Posts Tagged “Withered Hand”
After a slow start I’ve finally, slightly reluctantly, got into the Edinburgh Festival spirit. Although I enjoyed covering shows as a reviewer for the Edinburgh Evening News many moons ago, I have to admit I also have mixed feelings about it – after all the huge influx of tourists and increased pedestrian and road traffic [...]
I talked about the latest Fencezine on this month’s podcast and included King Creosote’s lovely version of Withered Hand’s No Cigarettes from the accompanying CD ‘On Behalf of My Wife and I’. Unfortunately it seems this issue has now sold out, so it seems rather cruel to be writing more about it, but at least [...]
It has all of WH’s favourite themes, dysfunctional relationships, lapsed religion, and self-deprecation, not to mention beautiful banjos, harmonies and other such gorgeousness. Christmas starts here! Get ‘It’s a Wonderful Lie’ Here.
Clearly I have gone wrong with my writing style. From now on I will be including a bizarre mixture of praise and personal abuse in each review. Or maybe you have to be arch-drude/nutjob Julian Cope to get away with that kind of thing. This review of Withered Hand by Cope is probably the strangest [...]