Live in Edinburgh This Week – 8th February 2009
It’s all going to be underground this week, with most happeny things happening at the Bowery, aided and abetted by Sneaky Pete’s on the Cowgate.
Ben Folds Five – Underground (Live at Ziggy’s)
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This weekend has been nice, actually. Getting the Samamidon session posted took me all the way through Friday night without any sleep, and all I managed was a couple of hours’ nap before the Meursault in-store at Avalanche, and then then off to have a couple of bevvies with Broken Records to celebrate their signing to 4AD.
After all this, though, Sunday was a real treat. I did no work whatsoever, Mrs. Toad and I tidied the house, albeit at a rather leisurely pace, and I played vinyl all afternoon. A gin was poured at about five in the afternoon, I read through the latest National Geographic and we cooked a great big meal for some friends. Fucking marvellous. I have to confess that I hogged the record player all night, but then, recently that hasn’t always been the case. I’ve been so busy that Mrs. Toad has done all the playing of records, while I beaver away at the computer, so it was nice to shelve all that for a couple of days and really just relax and indulge for a bit.
And let’s face it, there’s can’t be much better than a Sunday afternoon playing vinyl with a nice, strong G&T.
Thursday 12th February 2009: Share & The Second Hand Marching Band at the Bowery.
I know nothing at all about Share, but the Second Hand Marching Band’s recent EP is superb, so I am really looking forward to seeing them live again. With 22 of them fitting everyone on stage will be a challenge, as will the mic setup. Nevertheless, their ramshackle, folky gentleness promises to provide a memorable evening.
The Second Hand Marching Band – Don’t!
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Thursday 12th February 2009: The Endrick Brothers & Broken Records at the Caves.
The Endrick Brothers are a plain vanilla alt-country band who I nevertheless enjoyed enormously on the only occasion I’ve seen them live – they just had a sort of warm charm to them. Broken Records are likely to be playing out of their skins as they celebrate the recording of their album. Tickets from here.
The Endrick Brothers – Star of the Silver Screen
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Friday 13th February 2009: Meursault & How to Swim play This is Music at Sneaky Pete’s.
I’ve shamefully never been to This is Music. Probably because I fear the late closing and the dancing students – what a dismally pathetic excuse. I’ve done a lot of drinking this last week with people with no jobs to go to in the morning, and believe me, it takes some doing. Anyhow, with the carnval mayhem of How to Swim and the demented howl of Meursault, this should be fucking superb.
How to Swim – A Little Orgasm of Disappointment
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Saturday 14th February 2009: My Kappa Roots, eagleowl & Rob St. John at the Bowery.
This is a collaborative effort between the Bowery, the bands, Ten Tracks, the Collective Gallery and The Skinny. Irrespective of all that, of course, it’s just a fucking splendid lineup of the capital’s finest alternative folksters. And balls to Valentine’s Day – to quote Billy Bragg “Those glossy catalogues of couples are cashing in on happiness again and again.” And never mind the unhappiness it fucking generates. Pointless fucking whore of an occasion.
Billy Bragg – Valentine’s Day is Over
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Meursault play Sneaky Pete’s Friday 13th I think (as Rory and Gill are doing a DJ set there as well). Broken Records play the Mill (caves) on Thursday 12th.
I think Broken Records are playing the caves on thursday as well.
damn, a wee tad too late.
damned sloppy mr toad…..damned sloppy!
Fucking hell. I’ll just start again shall I. Give me a moment…
Syd Barrett could be playing Sneaky Pete’s this week and i wouldn’t give a flying fuck….i’m off to New York…..cheers and love
The Pineapple Chunks are playing a free show at the Wee Red on Frisay 13th. Finishes at 10pm,so enough time to get to Meursault..
Do you think in Jesus’ time they had a sermon on the mount information service (that generally missed out things like the day of Jesus’ Bless’d Cheese Maker speech) & was called Pslam, by Jobe?
If you want a directory, go to The List.
that would have been a lot funnier/clevererer if I had bothered to spellcheck before I dashed it off.
love the valentine vitriol matthew, you’ll make me ashamed for being happy this coming saturday
see you at share – they’re something like
boo to putting on shows the same night that broken records play for free.
weep.
but yay to paying for gigs!!!
otters otters otters.
I SAW YOU
playing very slow ‘post-folk’ music. in edinburgh.
i was sitting down, wearing a mesh hat, trying to look up your trouserlegs
i coughed in a quiet bit, you looked at your feet. please say you remember me?
i didn’t get a chance to heckle, but yr damn hot
maybe we could meet, maybe you could sing on my album?
Mr. 666 has clearly been on the orange M&Ms.
I do remember you.
Cute, in a socially awkward kind of way.
I’m willing to give it a go, but I warn you that I do have trouble committing, and even if we get on – it won’t stop me from playing on other people’s albums at the same time.
It’s best we’re up front about this.
Maybe we could discuss it over a can of rockstar?
xxx
Hello 666,
I remember you from the crowd,
I’m glad you noticed me, I noticed you too.
You were the one with the sun shining out of his arse, right?
If there’s much more of this then this comment thread is going to be closed. Good grief, you creepy bunch of fucking alt-folk weirdos. Can’t you just throw tellies out of windows like normal rock stars?
je suis d’accord.
and also slightly terrified.
They’ll be standing at the back of your gig on Thursday, too. How nervous d’you feel now?
even more confusing, there are several members of SHMB that look like bart. good for him to escape, but bad for the world as there enought for EVERY band to have a bart
this would be ok, but some songs are supposed to be fast and happy.
I KNEW there was more than one of him!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBXyB7niEc0
Bart. Just occasionally you can be really quite weird, were you aware of this?
no.
I am very sorry Barticles. I consider you a good friend, but for your own good someone had to tell you.
Thats a clip of China Buffet King on Sauchiehall Street on a friday night.