Dave Hughes releases an album, Seven Songs, which includes a total of (yes) 7 tunes – 6 originals, and a cover of a tune by his contemporary, Roscoe Vacant, entitled ‘Help Save The Youth of Cumnock and Doon Valley’.
You can hear ‘Backwards We Play’ at
http://www.amazingtunes.com/users/davehughes/tunes/36941

The album has its launch gig at MacSoreleys on Wednesday 8th of September.

Edinburgh rockers Salute Mary release their debut EP ‘Lonely Escapades’ digitally on September 6th.

www.myspace.com/salutemary / salutemary.com

The Zephyrs come out of hibernation to release their fifth album , entitled Fool Of Regrets, on September 6th; on the Club AC30 label.

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Reformed 80s act The Hardy Boys release EP Under The Piccadilly Clock on September 3rd. It follows album Songs from the Lenin and McCarthy Songbook which recently appeared more that 20 years after the band originally split.

Spectorbullets release their first single, ‘Mayakovsky it Ain’t (Chaos It Is)’, to give it its full title, on Monday September 6th on the Scottish-based Mayakovsky Produkts label. An album is scheduled for later in the autumn.

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80s popsters The Bluebells are to re-release their second album. Aptly entitled Second, it is the follow-up to Sisters, which appeared in 1985.

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Paolo Nutini has been announced as headliner for the Loopallu festival, which takes place in the palindromic highland town of Ullapool. Nutini joins other big-name acts on the weekend of 17th-18th September including The Magic Numbers, Idlewild, Turin Brakes and Aberfeldy.

Come On Gang! release a single, ‘Fortune Favours The Brave’, on September 10th. They launch it with a show at Edinburgh’s Caves the same night, with Found and Jesus H Foxx) also on the bill. The single is the first to be taken from their forthcoming album and will be released as a free download with a remix by HaHaHa.
http://comeongang.co.uk

Back to Glasgow this week for an appealing 4-band bill at Stereo on Friday 10th. Local newbies Turning Plates, ‘indie stalwarts’ How To Swim, the Scots-Swedish combo Social Services, and the whole hog, Scandanavian-wise, touring Danes Slaraffenland.
Sounds like a lineup which you could hardly go wrong with…

Gareth Dickson releases an album, The Dance, on his own Sleeping Man label.
Instrumental, and described as “a minimal solo guitar album”, it can be obtained via www.garethdickson.comand you can hear more at www.myspace.com/garethdickson