A glimpse into the recording of the Folk Songs bonus disc, to be released by Domino Records on August 10th 2009 as part of the James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players 'Folk Songs' special edition CD. Recorded and filmed at Analogue Catalogue over a warm weekend at the end of May 2009.

While in the U.S. on a recent tour Frances McKee and Eugene Kelly found time to drop by Rolling Stone magazines 'Smoking Section' and play three of their classics.

Have a gander at their suntanned Scottish faces here

Bridget Storm play their second gig in as many months alongside the Vaselines, Norman Blake, Malcolm Middleton and Aidan Moffat at the Oran Mor in Glasgow on 24th April. Bridget Storm will be performing as a duo with Julie joined by the heavily bearded Reuben Taylor. The evening is compered by the legendary Pat Nevin and all proceeds from the show go towards the Zomba Orphan Project, Malawi.

The Vaselines have long been celebrated by musicians and music enthusiasts across genres and across the globe, including super-fan Kurt Cobain. Sub Pop’s May 5 release of Enter The Vaselines is an opportunity for those already familiar with the Scottish band’s brief career to delve deeper into their body of work, while those new to their music can experience firsthand why so many hold them in such high regard. This new collection is effectively a deluxe-edition reissue of the 1992 Sub Pop release The Way of The Vaselines with a new title and new cover art from the band, and a whole lot of new material (the entirety of the 17-song second CD/third LP has been added). Originally mastered from a cassette tape, The Way of The Vaselines compiled the band’s two EPs (Son of a Gun and Dying for It) and their sole LP release (Dum Dum). Enter The Vaselines is the definitive triple LP/double CD Vaselines collection. It includes new mixes and re-mastered versions of everything by The Vaselines, plus never-before-heard demos, and live recordings from 1986 in Bristol and 1988 in London.

Released: 2009-05-05 (2xCD), 2009-05-05 (3xLP)

Though they have only 19 official recordings to their credit and broke up just after their lone full-length was released, the Vaselines have etched a special place in the hearts of many. Chief among these is a certain Kurt Cobain, whose popular grunge rock outfit Nirvana famously covered no less than three of those 19 Vaselines jams, including one (in slightly modified form) before a sizable television audience on "MTV Unplugged".

But enough boring backstory: the Vaselines are reuniting! The Scottish act, helmed by Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee, will reconvene for at least two festival performances in 2008. Hooray!

The first goes down May 16 at Dunfermline, Scotland's Carnegie Hall as part of Tigerfest. A bona fide Scottish lovefest, this gig will find the Vaselines sharing the bill with Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake and the Pearlfishers' David Scott, all while backed by members of Belle & Sebastian!

And hey, the second appearance ain't too shabby either. The Vaselines will help celebrate the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's onetime label home Sub Pop at Redmond, Washington's Marymoor Park on July 12. Sub Pop also, of course, helped keep the Vaselines on the map by releasing The Way of the Vaselines: A Complete History back in 1992.

We at Analogue Catalogue like to think that we helped things along in some small way as after we released Frances McKee's album 'Sunny Moon' in 2006 we organised a wee tour in June of the same year which saw Frances and Eugene share a stage for the first time in, ooh ages when they co-headlined shows in Glasgow, London, Manchester and Paris. God bless the Vaslines.

We've just taken delivery of an EMT 240 Gold Foil Plate Reverb for the studio. This, along with some other recent acquisitions will appear on the all new updated studio pages very soon.

SVC is heading off around the country on tour in March - dates below...

6 March - Vibe Bar Brick Lane, London
7 March - The Cube, Bristol
8 March - 22 Green Street, Birmingham
9 March - Pheonix Bar, Exeter
14 March - Callaghan’s, Cardiff
20 March - The Cluny, Newcastle
21 March - SWG3, Glasgow
22 March - Bar Abbey, Sheffield
23 March - Dulcimer, Manchester
24 March - The Social, Nottingham

James Yorkston's heartfelt rendition of 'At First She Starts' appears on 'Migrating Bird' - a tribute album to the late, great Lal Waterson which has just been released on Honest Jon's. James recorded this track at Analogue Catalogue just before Christmas last year and it can be heard here. The album features new versions of Lal's songs by a whole host of artists including King Creosote, Vashti Bunyan and Willard Grant Conspiracy.

'Keeps alive the thoughtful, rebellious, radical Englishness found in the best folk music... Nineteen different voices from different decades, countries, traditions and concerns, but the solitary, alienated quality of Waterson's bleak, fearless songs ensures a mesmerising consistency. Buy this as your folk album of the year, not least because the music seems so contemporary and timeless that it could easily get away with not being called folk' - The Observer

Supreme Vagabond Craftsman 'Just You, Me & The Baby' album released Monday 25th June 2007