Live in Edinburgh This Week – 16th March 2008
A couple of big, but not massive, names are slinking around the capital city this week. The Long Blondes have sold out Cabaret Voltaire on Wednesday, and the really not very good Young Knives are at The Liquid Room. I am going along to see The Long Blondes, but as regular commenter and Edinburgh gig fiend Bart quite rightly says, what on earth is the point of plugging a sold-out gig? So that’s enough about them, then. What else is knocking around?
Monday 17th March: Cut Off Your Hands at the Cabaret Voltaire.
Cut Off Your Hands sound very, erm, current. But for all I make that sound like an insult, they definitely have some decent tunes on their MySpace page, so for those of you looking for a little something to do tonight they might be worth investigating.
Cut Off Your Hands – Fond
Thursday 20th March: Eagleowl, Make Model & Twilight Sad at The Liquid Room.
Another superb lineup put together by I Fly Spitfires, and I am really looking forward to this gig. Eagleowl are dark, gothic folk, from what I know of them so far, Make Model are radio-friendly indiepop and the Twilight Sad are epic guitar-botherers. It’s a very mixed bill in terms of styles, but I rather like that. There will be beer. O Yes, there will be beer.
The Twilight Sad – Walking For Two Hours
Friday 21st March: Rob St. John & Tisso Lake at The Collective Gallery.
You all know how highly I rate local folk charmer Rob St. John, and he’s playing with Tisso Lake as part of their nationwide tour taking place over the next few weeks. If it’s the loveliest of fragile folk music you’re after, then you can’t possibly go wrong with popping down to this one.
Tisso Lake – The House by the River
Saturday 22nd March: Simon Breed at the Voodoo Rooms.
He’s an acoustic sort with plenty of darkness to his music and was much championed by a certain Mr. John Peel, apparently. Closer to home, Billy from Spins ‘n’ Needles recently wrote a long and rather interesting article about him for Drowned in Sound.
Simon Breed – Low Blood Sugar
Saturday 22nd March: Damn Shames at Henry’s Cellar Bar.
This is Music presents the Damn Shames. Their recent Spins ‘n’ Needles review wasn’t too complimentary, but there’s enough going on in their dancey, punky indie-pop that I think I might give them a chance. It’s definitely music for The Kidz (TM) rather than old duffers like myself, but there’s something there that I’m quite liking the sound of, so I may give this a go.
Damn Shames – Last Things
Nothing to add.
Apart from that the Darlings, or at least their singer, is opening for Rob and Tisso Lake at the collective gallery on Friday, with a solo set.
http://www.myspace.com/thedarlingslondon
She does a rather pretty cover of ‘push the button’ by the sugababes.
On ukulele.
Probably worth heading down early, then.
Shit, shit, shit. Sorry Bart, completely forgot to mention that. That’s me being a fuckwit, not me deliberately ignoring it, sorry.
Woah – you don’t have to apologise!
Otherwise I would really have had nothing to add.
And then my reputation as a self agrandising know-it-all gig fiend would have been in jeopardy.
you know you’re wrong about The Young Knives……
Would join you on Thursday, but we’ve a splendid gig of our own at Glasgow Barfly in the shpe of Ida Maria..
Cheers for the plug!
I’m covering the Long Blonde gig, it would seem. Gie’s a shout beforehand and we can hook up for a pre-gig pint if you’re free.
B
Aye most definitely. Sounds excellent. I’ll have been determinedly pintless for a few days up to that point as well – it’s been a heavy weekend.
e.a.g.l.e.o.w.l – I love that cunning, ginger, know it alls band. thursday should be great though I do hope twilight sad use more instruments and not just the one guitar sound all night. might just drink at the bar during make model – *yawns* – “don’t believe the hype” I believe public enemy once said….so appropriate.
eagleowl? schiesters….im gonna kick barts backside.
Thank you all.
You’re too kind.
Imagine typing ‘d to the a to the…’ etc.. every time you want to leave a comment.
Maybe that’s why he has such a ‘withered hand’.
Named and shamed.
Dan, at homegame this year, I want you to bring it on.
And prepare for an unholy smackdown.
“wrestling chat”…”an indie/folk festival”…rare to find those in the same sentence bart…you truely are a genre spanner.
also tonight is keiran hebden and steve reid at the voodoo rooms…
Yeah, I’m not that keen on the little Fourtet stuff I’ve heard, so I’ve shied away from Hebden’s stuff since. Is this a mistake?
i don’t think so – saw explosions in the sky support him at liquid rooms and found him quite disappointing – our drummer grant is the man to talk to about four tet though – feel a little out of my depth to really comment on his stuff other than to say that live I just didn’t like it.
i’ve never seen him live, but am a fan on record. have heard mixed reports about him playing with steve reid (an improv jazz drummer), i would be going if funds weren’t short.
as for d to the a to the zzzz? i have my browser form filler set to stun.
and bart yr dead. im gonna shave off yr beard while yr asleep.
