Live in Edinburgh This Week – 5th April 2009
Quite a thin week by recent standards actually, but that’s no bad thing. Homegame is approaching and a weekend that is easy on the liver and easy on the wallet will be a very good thing. Plus we have to spend it all making up copies of the new Meursault EP, Nothing Broke. Yes, you heard me right. Terribly exciting, wot. It will mark the first offical outing for crowd favourite William Henry Miller Pt.1, albeit an acoustic version of the song, the full version of which will be available along with The Furnace, The Dirt & the Roots and William Henry Miller Pt.2 as part of a set of two 7″ vinyl releases in late Spring.
And the Maxwell Panther album is about done. And the Inspector Tapehead album is almost there, although that’s not quite a done deal yet, so I’ll keep that under my hat for a little longer.
The reason this post is so late is because I have been galavanting about going to weddings. It turns out an old friend of mine from uni made that crazy Sony Bravia exploding paint advert. Who knew what a talented bunch my classmates were. Maybe if I’d ever turned up myself I’d have known this kind of thing.
Tuesday 7th April 2009: Danananaetc… & Favours For Sailors at Cabaret Voltaire.
Dananandingdong are, in all honesty, a band about whom I am personally no more than lukewarm. I don’t know them all that well yet though, so that might change, but for now the recommendation is a tentative one. Favours For Sailors are newly signed to one of my favourite labels, Tough Love Records, and are garnering an awful lot of press at the moment, so I may well wander down for this.
Favours For Sailors – Our Name
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Wednesday 8th April 2009: Great Eskimo Hoax, We See Lights & Cancel the Astronauts at Sneaky Pete’s.
Great Eskimo Hoax sound rather interesting at times. It can veer a little close to a kind of haircut-friendly indie pop at times, but there are definitely plenty of interesting things happening in their songs, so this might well be worth trying out.
Great Eskimo Hoax – Camp Beatbox
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Thursday 9th April 2009: Lovers Turn to Monsters & Little Pebble at Henry’s Cellar Bar.
Little Pebble is excellent live and Lovers Turn to Monsters also sound quite promising. The latter plays a tense kind of awkward indie folk, of the sort that seems to be designed for Edinburgh at the moment.
Lovers Turn to Monsters – The Four O’Clock
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Sunday 12th April 2009: State Broadcasters, Benni Hemm Hemm & Jo Foster at the Bowery.
The Gentle Invasion wonderfully (and somewhat inevitably) comes out of retirement to put on some lovely indie folk pop from Glasgow at the Bowery. Edinburgh’s most prominent Icelandic musician (I, er, think) supports, along with Fence lady Jo Foster. I hope her arm has sufficiently recovered from the skiing accident which caused her to miss her last gig at the Bowery.
State Broadcasters – Our Favourite Park
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Adam Fantasy Island, Dan Hand and Jill Sparrow at the Bowery on Saturday.
http://www.myspace.com/yifimusic
Also, Alasdair Roberts playing entirely acoustic in Stills Gallery on Friday – with Wounded Knee and a couple of others.
http://www.stills.org/events/future/experimental-music-downsize-sound-presaging-sonic-slump
And Paul Vickers & the Leg at Limbo on Thursday.
And Oso are playing twice over the weekend – Henry’s on Saturday (I think) and GRV on Sunday. Anyone that can be described as ‘Math-Folk’ is worh a look.
Christ, I update the Bowery site and I still hadn’t heard of that one.
Yeah, I wondered about Oso actually – that did sound like a weird description. Is this the right MySpace page? They don’t mention an Edinburgh gig, but it looks about right otherwise:
http://www.myspace.com/thebandoso
Alasdair Roberts! Stills! Wounded Knee! Chris!
what rock have i been sleeping under?
FUUUCK!!! I’M IN FUCKING BERWICK! COCKS! FANNIES! BUGGER! MINGE! CHRIS!
Yeah, I missed that one altogether. Whoops.
Yes, that’s the right Oso.
They’re from the Americas.
They’re played in Edinburgh quite a few times.
They’re amazing live.
They’re mental.
And yes, the Still show will be rather special, but Alasdair Roberts is also playing Cabaret Voltaire next month, with Rob and the St Johns in support.
YAY!
Take that Berwick!
i’ve got to Berwick sometime to get measured up for suit, cos i’m the best man at my youngest brother’s wedding
just thought i’d share
guess who i am….ba ba ba ba ba ba boo boo boo boo i’m riding in a train, riding in a train whoo whoo whoo, boomba boomba boomba
Is that what you had in mind for the best man’s speech?
Cos I got to say – needs a bit of work.
you’re so funny Barty Bart Bart………but you know the correct answer darling…
btw….i think i’m over-dosing on cold remedies
You’re overdosing on something, clearly.
Is Chris a new swear word now?
There are so many nowadays it’s difficult to keep up.
No it isn’t.
And no it isn’t.
I can fill in your saturday:
Saturday 11th April 7pm
Paper Planes, The Foundling Wheel, and Kung Fu
Sneaky Pete’s
if i’m mr.bear and chris is little bear…surely you can see where this is going?
time to delicate someone an avatar mr.toad
typed chris into urban dictionary…
‘chris-
a douche bag homo that sits in his room all day beating off to cartoon porn and playing video games
Dude, Chris is such a homo.’
i’m saying nothing.
I just took time out to watch the ad, not realising whcih one it is. When you say your mates from Uni made it, what did they do on it? Direct it? Film it? Choreograph it? I only ask because the compressed air cannon that’s used to propel the paint was built & designed by the best special effects/explosives expert in the UK, in conjubction with the company I work for. We loaned a few units to the production company, but we didn’t know what the ad was until it hit our screens (when was it?) a year or so ago?
Incidentally, the compressed air cannon was the reason I was in a Wells quarry (with said expert) a few week’s back & the reason I’ll be in Virginia in May.
The S-FX guy is a fucking madman, but sweet as hell, & is the ‘go to’ fellow for all things what go boom in the movie industry; he’s worked on tons of ‘em, including the new Batmans – the hospital explosion is one of his, as is the truck jack-knifing – & is currently working on a re-make of a children’s classic.
By the by, Favours For Sailors I thought the mini-LP was awful, save for 2 songs, & the DanananananananaBatman album is atrocious.
I do not like the Danananas, and I am not keen on Favours for Sailors either, honestly.
In terms of that ad, it was just one friend from uni and he was part of the six-man team from the production company (not sure about my terminology there) who actually made the thing happen, and worked very closely with the explosives guy. They didn’t design it or anything I don’t think – presumably that was some wankforallyoureworth agency in London or New York or something, I don’t know how these things work – but he was pretty heavily involved as far as I know.
Smaller world by the day…