Live in Edinburgh This Week – 24th August 2008
I am not leaving the house this week. Instead I am going to be locked in my sweaty little internet den (or the ‘editing suite’, if you want it to sound a bit less grotty) beavering away at session videos. I couldn’t resist a little leak of one of the Meursault recordings here though, but that’s because the whole thing is coming together really nicely and I am just plain excited.
And the Festival ends this week as well. Would you believe I haven’t done a single show this year, not one. I mean, I’ve been to see Eagleowl and Broken Records, but then I’d do that anyway. Mind you, the whole fucking lot is getting so bloody expensive these days that this is hardly a disaster.
Monday 25th August 2008: Alex Cornish at The Village, Leith.
Alex is a a good friend, and a DIY champion in this era of record industry panic. He’s actually turned down the advances of proper labels in order to carry on making things happen on his own. Given that he’s an Edinburgh lad doing things his own way, so you’d bloody well all better show him some support when the new single comes out in September. More on that later in the week.
Alex Cornish – Scotland the Brave
Monday 25th August 2008: Clare & the Reasons at Cabaret Voltaire.
I know nothing about these guys at all, apart from the fact that they come highly, highly recommended by a good friend of mine. So highly recommended, in fact, that she’s emailed me about this particular gig three or four times already. Mad old bag.
Clare & the Reasons – Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Yes, that one.)
Tuesday 26th August 2008: The Raconteurs at the Corn Exchange.
I was so disappointed by their last album that I won’t be going to this, but the Raconteurs were blistering the last time I saw them, so if you liked their recent stuff and are in any doubts, just go. Jack White, in particular, is a virtuoso live performer.
The Raconteurs – Steady as She Goes (Acoustic)
Thursday 28th August 2008: Meursault, Sparrow & the Workshop & The Red Well play Limbo at the Voodoo Rooms.
Continuing their consistently excellent lineups, this one has to trump the lot, I think. Will I be there? Mwah ha ha ha, will fucking bells on I will. And to celebrate, here’s a little sneak preview from the forthcoming Meursault Toad Session, which will be posted this weekend. Why? Because I just couldn’t restrain myself, that’s why.
Meursault – Pissing on Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues (Toad Session)
Thursday 28th August 2008: Punch & the Apostles play Henry’s Cellar Bar, along with Super Adventure Club, Rodent Emporium and Terra Surfa.
I would interested to see these guys actually, as their single on Lucky Number Nine Records, an excellent little DIY Glasgow label, was really rather good. I’d like to see them live, just to get a better understanding of their sound. Their gypsy blunderbuss sound might have slightly missed its window in terms of its fashionable status, but they still sound like a very good band to me irrespective of all that sort of calculating commercial bobbins.
Punch & the Apostles – The Engineers of Salammbo
Saw Clare & The Reasons play support for St Vincent at the Bush Hall late last year on a foul wet evening. They are indeed well worth seeing, a really well balanced sound and felt to me more like equal billing with St Vincent than anything. That cover of Everybody Wants To Rule The World is really sweet.
Well I’m not going to see them tonight, because if I go to anything it will be Alex Cornish. They are on the bill at the End of the Road Festival though, so I’ll probably catch them there.
I’ll get you for that one Matthew!
Sounds like a good few gigs this week. Thanks for posting some more Meursault – really love this track. If I was living in Edinburgh, I’d definitely check them out live. However, as I’m living so far away, I’ll need to give it a miss.
Well the videos from the session will be up this weekend – does that count?
Wendy – what makes you think I was talking about you?
*innocent whistling*
I’m upset I can’t go to Limbo. I have to look after my flatmate who’ll just be out of back surgery and off his chops on medication and the after effects of anaesthesia.
I’m terribly sorry for drunkenly rambling at you last Thursday, Matthew.
If I took the huff at people drunkenly rambling I’d have no friends at all. That’s what my entire social life is based upon.
that Limbo line-up does indeed look good, but you’ll have to get on the Super Adventure Club bus soon Matthew. Chalk Horror! is fandabidozy, don’t miss it!
Hello Ally. I have seen them actually, and really didn’t like it. I’ve heard enough good things that I’m open to giving it another try, but the time I was there it wasn’t really doing it for me. You know what a conservative old fart I am most of the time…
Can I say that I like Alex Cornish’s song a lot. I do note though that the man’s voice is almost identical to Chris Martins – but unlike most people I know, I wouldn’t class this as a bad thing. I for one still love Parachutes by that band and won’t diss them just cause they got massive – Snow Patrol I will diss til the cows come home for being intersting to begin with then becoming massive and bland – but that’s for another day. Anyways, my point is that the song is excellent and his voice is Chris Martins voice – which again, is not a criticism.