For the final night if the Glasgow Westend Festival 2012 The Oran Mor staged an event featuring several new bands and artists across their 3 venues.
The event featured headliners We Were Promised Jetpacks and more…in the Auditorium. Also in this Auditorium were – Monoganon (surely shades of the Low Anthem here), Miaoux Miaoux (one man electronic band recently album of the week on Radio Scotland’s Tom Morton show), Three Blind Wolves and Remember Remember.
Performing in the Whisky Bar were The Dirty Beggars, a bluegrass band who performed also at Celtic this year; plus Apples of Energy and Wounded Knee.
In the basement Venue were Aidan Moffat and Bill Wells whose 2011 album “Everything's Getting Older” recently won the “Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award 2012". Moffat’s sound has a rough edged voice with a deep oak timbre and he surely is a fan of Dundee’s treasure - humorous and quirky singer songwriter Michael Marra! While Well’s piano provided the perfect backdrop. Also in the Venue - Gav Prentice, Olympic Swimmers, John Knox Sex Club, guitarist R M Hubbert and singer songwriter Withered Hand.
There were strong folk and singer songwriter elements to the event with many of the artists on the line-up and with WWPJ providing more of a rock band finale to the evening.
Worth
checking out Withered Hand, Dirty Beggars, Monoganon and Aiden Moffat and Bill
Wells. Sorry no photos for this event. I
have covered many events at the Oran Mor over the past years with the venue being my
closest and probably my favourite Glasgow
music venue. I always thoroughly review
the musicians I shoot and take a lot of care over the reviews I post.
Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat's “Everything's
Getting Older” has been named the “Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award 2012. The duo won £20,000
for their work, which was eight years in the making, beating acts such as
Mogwai and Conquering Animal Sound. The
Scottish Album of the Year (Say) prize is a new award billed as the equivalent
of the Mercury Music Prize. The winning album was awarded by the Scottish Music
Industry Association at a ceremony in Glasgow Film
City .