Yup, it’s Valentine’s Day (in case you had forgotten) and here are two special things for you.

Flutes take on Haddaway’s 1993 cheese-fest and manage to turn it into something profound and lovely:

Meanwhile, the significance of this track from Viv Albertine to Valentine’s Day is that it one of eight new tracks taken from the vinyl version of The Vermilion Border, to be released in March 2013. It will apparently only be available for one day (this stream, rather than the vinyl), so act quickly:

News just in: Viv Albertine will play Glasgow’s Poetry Club on March 9.

Meanwhile, I have been involved in bringing Flutes to play at Penicuik library on April 20, a free show at 3PM…