Baby Tiger's Favourite Links
This is a collection of links to the tiger's favourite sites. If you want links to bands' webpages, go to the bands page.
Magazines / Fanzines / Newspapers
Edinburgh's three times weekly free festival newspaper. Baby Tiger's partner in the Tigerfest festival.
Central Scotland's bible of all things musical, film and culture-related. In all good stockists every other Friday.
Scotland's foremost music fanzine, edited by Stuart McHugh and occasionally contributed to by us.
Offbeat Scottish fanzine written in part by Stewart Smith, who did some cool Backpackers articles last Tigerfest. They won an award recently, you know.
Dunfermline-based blog which has topics ranging from the Middle East crisis to reviews of electrical noise. Respect.
Music Websites
Ace website which lists gigs, provides news and also has a great database devoted to the Scottish indie music scene, at all levels. Also the notorious messageboard, which you post on at your peril.
Lanarkshire-based purveyors of unsigned reviews, links, that sort of thing...
A music discussion board which has knowledgeable, witty people. And is therefore a rarity. Run by My Legendary Girlfriend.
Website for the weekly Radio 1 Scottish show, as presented by Vic 'n' Gill.
Scottish resource site with links to major venues, promoters, labels etc. Run by Lyle Christine of Stigma.
Edinburgh's best club night, usually on the last Friday of every second month at the Caves, just off the Cowgate. A mixture of live acts and great DJ's, playing everything from salsa to hip-hop.
Website for the Beat 106 show presented by Dundee DJ Jim Gellatly, the man with the most bizarre hair in Scotland. Plays lots of unsigned bands (Scottish and otherwise) and many other cool tunes.
Not strictly speaking about actual Air, but rather a Radio Scotland weekly show hosted by Vic Galloway, which often plays Baby Tiger-related music. But not Calvin, as he thinks we suck. No taste :)
Club night run by and for dedicated Edinburgh music people. They let Neil DJ once. The fools. Every 2nd Thursday at the Venue.
Just listen to the MP3. Radiohead in a bluegrass stylee. Classic.
A great online toy for the music fan. Enjoy.
Review and articles site on random bits of music. Ch-check it out.
Possibly the most libellous music website on the net. Aside from Popbitch. Maybe they could have a 'Pop-Off' like in Zoolander. That'd be cool.
A random collection of South Queensferry-ites doing various musicy/poetry/word-based performances.
Purveyors of an open mic evening at the Waverly Bar on a Thursday. If the Baby Tiger open mic isn't on, go there!
Website featuring Scottish unsigned music.
For all your music store need.
Edinburgh-based podcasters. Send 'em your tunes and lo, they might be played.
What it says, really - a Baby Tiger myspace page which has links, friends, upcoming gigs and Other Stuff.
One Sharon Macdonald, top photographer, and her showcase. She's got great taste in music and books, too.
One man from Massachussetts and his blog, devoted to Scottish music. Very interesting and insightful, y'know.
Miscellaneous Stuff
Ace novelist and author of 'Quite Ugly One Morning'. Unfortunately supports St Mirren, but nobody's perfect.
Alleged 'local' newspaper with a mixture of scurrilous rumours, lies and second-hand trampoline adverts.
Flash animation.
The best site on the entire internet (after baby tiger, obviously).
They tell you what's happening in Edinburgh. Which is always useful, if Baby Tiger haven't anything planned that night...
Ace Glasgow cartoonist of the 1940's and 1950's, creator of Sheriff Lobey Dosser, Rank Bajin and many others.
They sell all the stuff that you always wanted but never realised it. Including giant robots. That's right - giant robots. Schweet.
American news you don't see on TV. Probably cos it's not true, though that never stopped Bush during the war (ooh, political...)
Spoof TV listings. Inspired.
Left-leaning website covering various American issues du jour. In case you're feeling intellectual.
Ace Edinburgh artist - helps run the Embassy gallery - http://www.embassygallery.co.uk
America's finest living cartoonist.
Learn how to make giant Jaffa Cakes out of gelatinous calf hooves, etc. Prepare to cry with laughter.
Record Labels
Alt-country and indie label run by Francis McDonald of Teenage Fanclub. Includes Schwervon! and BMX Bandits, among others.
Fife alt-folk label run by Kenny Anderson (ex-Skuobhie Dubh Orchestra), includes Lone Pigeon, King Creosote and Pip Dylan.
London-based label who release the likes of Broken Family Band, Saloon and Homescience.
UK label who release the Lucksmiths, Airport Girl, Bearsuit and Aislers Set, to name a few.
Release the likes of Franz Ferdinand, James Yorkston and the Athletes, and many other uber-cool indie acts.
Home to Ballboy, Desc and The Starlets, SL are Edinburgh's foremost label. We love 'em.
Exceptionally eclectic label releasing everything from electronica to white noise. The most out-there label in Edinburgh right now. Also organise gigs at The Subway.
Glasgow label responsible for 'Rock Mess Monsters', also Roddy Hart, Closer and Sucioperro. Run by the man with the scariest beard in Scotland, Peter Rooney.
Ace label with a fantastic back catalogue - check out the shop...
A label-cum-promotions company based in Glasgow, who have very fine musical taste.
Fab Dundee label with mostly rockier acts like the estimable Mercury Tilt Switch, but they're not averse to a bit of something different and have more reflective releases too!
Venues
Baby Tiger's home venue, scene of many a sweaty, euphoric and slightly drunken Saturday night. Has lots of cheap drink and friendly denizens. And a pool table, for the music cynics up the back.
Venue-cum-art space, home to local charity Out Of The Blue. Hosted the inaugural Baby Tiger gig, on 28th April 2002.
City Centre nightclub and live music venue
Does exactly what it says on the tin. And it's in Edinburgh.
Cowgate venue-cum-club, puts on interesting nights and a weird club frequented by students, nurses, goths and trainee teachers. Seriously.
Ace veggie cafe-cum-venue in Edinburgh's uni district. Does a mean vegi-burger, and is very chilled out.
Non-Baby Tiger Artists (for now!)
The best songwriter in America, bar none (if you're Neil). Writes world-weary but ace tunes about life, love and spaceships.
Clearly, you've heard of U2.
Three ladies from the Pacific North-west who play down-homey folk-country with bittersweet lyrics.
Probably Edinburgh's biggest band at present (they were at uni here) playing skyscraping scuzzy pop with a literate bent.
Glasgow's best-known twee-popsters, whose best album is 'If You're Feeling Sinister' (and I'll fight anyone who says otherwise)
From Eire, this band have the funniest band website I've come across. And Tetris.
Remember 'Birdhouse in Your Soul'? Sure you do, you know, "...not to put too fine a point on it, say I'm the only bee in your bonnet...'. Yeah, them. They're great, they are.
Articulate blue-collar spokesman for the people and against the Republicans. Apparently wrote some decent tunes, too.
Technically, AVSH are a Baby Tiger artist, but they're also the band that the organisers play in, so they get an extra link. Deal with it while listening to Hatcheck Girl.
If you want alt.country music with the best lyrics EVER and backing bands featuring the likes of Howe Gelb, Calexico and The Sadies...she's your gal.
