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Errant Media
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DIY label in Edinburgh, Scotland. Home of Errant Boy, Stephen McLaren, Locked Hands and Blue Tiles
https://errantmedia.bandcamp.com/music
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Out TODAY! New from us. It's Errant Boy's 3rd album. FFO The Go-Betweens, Lloyd Cole, The Smiths
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A Little Distortion, by Errant Boy
9 track album
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Edinburgh heads! Our own Stephen McLaren plays next weekend's mighty Fuzzfest at Leith Depot on Friday. Tickets/line-ups 👇
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Fuzz Fest Episode IV
Fuzz Fest returns for a fourth outing. This time occurring on three evenings and one afternoon at three venues (Home Bar, Leith Depot and Leith Cricket Club). A bunch of fantastic acts will perform. ...
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January 4, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Very much into this Corsican crime family flick. Taut in all the right places. Worth checking out (cheers to bfi player)
January 4, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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1st To Here Knows When - Great Irish Albums Revisited episode of 2026 will be an archive interview with the late Nigel Grainge of Ensign Records, chatting about #ThinLizzy #SineadOConnor #TheBoomtownRats #TheWaterboys #IntoParadise #Stump + a whole lot more. Coming soon. www.paulmcdermott.ie/podcast
January 3, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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A lot of people freaked out when Bob Dylan went electric and they were CORRECT to do so. Who do you think has to pay for that electricity? That’s right, normal taxpayers like you and me!
January 2, 2026 at 12:10 PM
One I often revisit as some of the less accessible tracks continue to yield surprises
January 2, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Watched The Wages of Fear which is incredible. Full of impactful shots and touches with a dim but strangely admiring view of humanity (cheers to bfi player)
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January 1, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Ushering in the 2026 winter sunlight with Public Image Limited. Bass Heavy. Accept No Substitute.
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January 1, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Finally read Huxley's Brave New World. Unsettling. Very little humanity to love within. Must have scared the living bejayzus out of folk when first published
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December 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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New on The Noise of Art…

The Noise of Art Annual 2025 - That was the Year that Was

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From DJ Kulu to Creeping Bent, with Band of Holy Joy, The Sexual Objects, Irvine Welsh, The Kinks and Cabaret Voltaire between.

This is where I came in.
December 29, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Sorry but I’m not going to be impressed by a book named “Animal Farm”. That’s like calling your allegory “People City” or “Refrigerator of Food”. Just put a little bit more effort into it please.
December 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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We released this Locked Hands album 6 months ago. Now up on YouTube. Think Beck, Young Fathers, experimental DIY pop
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Locked Hands - Safety Is Our Focus (full album)
YouTube video by Errant Media
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October 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Occasionally I get that urge to experience Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica and this Christmas Eve is one of those times
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December 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Caught up with Todd Haynes' Carol. A melancholy treat with potent performances from the leads. Moving
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December 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Bandcamp is pretty good for connecting with fans who want to support musicians. But if you want your tracks to reach people who actively dislike musicians, then you need to get your music on Spotify as well.
December 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Revisiting Lou and John's sumptuous, raw Songs for Drella
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December 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Look, the dude didn’t say that everybody who listened to the Velvet Underground record started a GOOD band
December 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Dear Hearts can you help us get up to 2,000 subscribers? Spread the word, gift a sub, let your insanely rich mate who owns a private island that he could do with taking out 20 subscriptions... It's what will secure our future for the following year. Bless up.
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December 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Luxuriating in the glorious experimental pop of Associates' Fourth Drawer Down
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December 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Digging the timeless celestial goodness of Kamasi Washington's The Epic
December 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Impressed by @michaelmagee.bsky.social's Close to Home which beautifully catches that graduate crossroads. Where what feels like an identity crisis is, in retrospect, an opening out. An evolution
December 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Gloomy Sunday Miles Davis A Tribute to Jack Johnson sesh. Prefer this one to Bitches Brew #jazzsky
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December 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Already sick of the end-of-year list hype. We have an antidote with … another list.

It’s our most overrated albums of 2025. Did your favourite make it?

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2025 in Review: The Most Overrated Albums
Kicking off list season, with our annual rundown of the year’s most overrated albums. Find out who made our unlucky thirteen.
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December 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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New on The Noise of Art…

Tom Stoppard - Travesties

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From the archive, Tom Stoppard talks in 2018 about his play, Travesties, which looks at literary, artistic & political revolution by putting James Joyce, Tristan Tzara and V.I. Lenin in the same city in 1917
December 5, 2025 at 10:38 AM