Spend all morning sorting out Benicassim passes and the line up for itm?'s Musicworks show on August 31st. I manage to confirm FMM, Satellite Dub and the Aphrodisiacs in the space of 30 minutes which wasn’t bad. (Calvin confirm next day, sadly too late to go in the conference programme). Errors can’t play but they have already confirmed with our Dunfermline arm for the show there on the 5th

Despite a good run of top Edinburgh bands emerging, I still expect the worst, which is probably the best way to avoid disappointment. So with Private Jackson I was expecting the usual laddish plod (apologies, guys/gal) but was pleasantly surprised at their angular and slightly noisy indie guitar rock (more apologies for the lacklustre description). X-vectors – I'd had described to me and was

Being unable to be in more than one place at once has meant my having to choose between a Half Man Half Biscuit gig and T in the Park (it seems that a press pass for one day is just too complicated to organise). Following DF's continued refusal to book the Biscuits for the main stage at "the new Glastonbury", I am consigned to catching up on the highlights on telly. Well, in fact, there's a live