> Chris Queen, Author at SNACK: Music, film, arts and culture magazine for Scotland
… …

ZERRIN ‘Talking to myself ‘ (EP Review)

SNACK reviewed ‘Maintenance Phase’, the lead single that opens this EP, in April – ...

PICTISH TRAIL ‘Follow Footsteps’ (EP Review)

Reimagining songs from his 2022 album Island Family, the Small Isles polymath Johnny Lynch ...

Scotland’s Best Grassroots Music Venues SNACK Student Guide 2024

When you look at the moments in music that kickstart a movement, it’s striking ...

Elf Lyons on horror as a solution & bringing new show, Horses, to Edinburgh Fringe 2024

Stand-up comedian, director, and classically trained clown – Elf Lyons has a list of ...

Cassandra Jenkins ‘My Light, My Destroyer’ (Album Review)

There are little details scattered through My Light, My Destroyer, the third album from ...

Dark Fidelity Hi-Fi ‘Formations ‘ (Album Review)

A new release on Bricolage is always going to be worth our attention – ...

Ari Tsugi on musical chemistry, spirituality, and gifts of the universe.

The latest signing to Rebecca Vasmant’s label, Rebecca’s Records, Ari Tsugi are a psychedelic ...

OUTBLINKER ‘OUTBLINKER’ (Album Review)

Intensity is the word that characterises the long- awaited debut album from ‘self-facilitating media ...

Guests ‘I wish I was special’ (Album Review)

There’s an intimacy to this debut album from Jessica Higgins and Matthew Walkerdine; the ...

Esther Swift ‘Expectations of a Lifetime’ (Album Review)

Multi-hyphenate composer-singer-harpist-arranger Esther Swift came to prominence with her 2021 piece ‘The Call’, a ...

Bikini Kill: Fiercely Feminist Punk – Kathi Wilcox on what has changed and what hasn’t

It’s hard to overstate the importance of Bikini Kill: their fiercely feminist punk redefined ...

Album: Origami Future by Xoom Xoom

In Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ 1986 graphic novel Watchmen, a character purported to ...