Live in Edinburgh This Week – 26th October 2008
Well there’s virtually nothing going on in the city this week, nothing at all. Almost. There is the Fence Collective Halloween bash in Fife (no, I know, Fife is not Edinburgh) this weekend and then, on Saturday…
*drum roll please*
…Broken Records launch their new single, Lies, at the Bongo Club with support from Sparrow & the Workshop and Eagleowl. Broken Records are on the verge of sorting out the release of their debut album, but it’s all Very Top Secret at the moment. I haven’t seen Broken Records for a while actually, and I’m really looking forward to it. And personally, I think it’s very good news that there’s not all that much on, because I have a busy week ahead of me.
Wednesday is an excellent little gig I am helping to arrange, on Thursday we send out all the promo material for Meursault, Eagleowl, Nightjar and a new Rob St. John EP, which will be a long, tedious evening no doubt. Well, apart from the beer that is.
Then my little brother and his missus turn up on Monday, and we all get to watch the US elections and get plastered. I don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing, but I am likely to be useless at work on the day after.
Broken Records – Kathy
Broken Records – The All Fell Into the Sea (Toad Session)
Shit almost forgot – Bart’ll kill me. On Friday at the Wee Red Bar there is the latest (and final, really honestly this time) Gentle Invasion gig. So for those not going to Fence Halloween, here’s an alternative. If You Lived Here… sound particularly good, if you ask me.
Our Ladies of Sorrow, If You Lived Here You’d be Home By Now & Russ Abatoir at the Wee Red Bar.
If You Lived Here You’d be Home By Now – Dead Boyfriend
you have happened to forget to mention that the poptastic Cancel The Astronauts are playing Limbo this Thursday.
Check them out….there are class http://www.myspace.com/canceltheastronauts
….and you’ve also forgotten another gig that is happening on Friday….but i’ll let you sort that out….
oh that’s better…..good boy….
Hmm…one of the Broken Records links is down.
They haven’t signed to Columbia have they?
On a more serious note, well done for the active support you’ve given to Ed and Steve over the last couple of days. And it has been pretty active hasn’t it? I see you popping up everywhere it seems.
Oh, and I promise not to download without leaving a thank-you note ever again.
Good on you mate
Sunday 2nd November
Major Matt Mason USA/Enfant Bastard/Withered Hand
Bristo Hall (above forest cafe)
7.30pm
Free
BYOB (cheap corkage)
Major Matt Mason USA is a pivotal figure in the New York underground music scene sometimes referred to as ‘antifolk’. He has recorded and performed with Jeffrey Lewis, Turner Cody, Herman Dune, the list goes on…..
This is Matt’s last date on his european tour for this year. And amazingly, thanks to the Forest and the uber mysterious, erudite and sexy edinburgh promoter known only as….wh666, this gig will be absolutely free!!!! Come and support Matt, the forest and edinburgh’s DIY music scene. and bring either a woolly jumper or a close friend cos it gets pretty fricking cold up there sometimes!
p.s. this gig also marks the first live performance from local legend and brillaint contrarian Enfant Bastard in a considerable while and really shouldnt be missed.
fuck, a typo.
i hate my life.
brilliant.
Crap, I forgot that was this week. I just bought his album actually, and it arrived today. And bloody excellent it was, too. I’ll be there on Sunday, I’m pretty certain.
Live in Baltimore Monday night…Morgan and Rick send their best.
And I’ve officially ceased lurking.
Cheers from Charm City.
So what is this excellent little gig you’re helping organise on Wednesday?
Or is that also top secret?
(note: it normally helps if the secret is revealed before the event, rather than afterwards.)
Also, I am going to kill you.
No amount of back-peddling can save you now.
It’s a Fence pre-Halloween warm up show. Fancy coming along? You know where it is – first band on at 8. Art Pedro, Animal Magic Tricks, Little Pebble and Love.Stop.Repeat.
define excellent……he he
It will be a highly enjoyable evening, you plonker. Coming along? It’s BYOB.
I should be there.
Yes, my little ginger friend, you most definitely should.
where ’s it at?
btw just listening to the new Ryan Adams cd…..kinda good, might even be great after a few more listens.