Live in Edinburgh This Week – 15th November 2009
Having made such an almighty pig’s ear of last week’s listings, I find myself wondering if the gigmosphere really is as thin as it looks this week, or whether I’ve just managed to make another spectacular arse of spotting the good ‘uns again.
There’s something a little different happening, actually, because Joey Comeau and the Loose Teeth Press are going to be at the Bowery as part of their reading tour tonight, which sounds rather interesting. Also, the Charity Baw at the Roxy on Saturday looks like a bit of a spectacular, so it’s not actually as quiet a week as it looks.
Tuesday 17th November 2009: King Charles play the first Fresh Air Tuesday at the GRV.
Fresh Air student radio are taking over the GRV on Tuesdays this year, putting on something a little different each week, and kicking things off this week with King Charles. I don’t know them at all, but I have dug up a few songs and they sound really rather good. Definitely worth checking out.
King Charles – Beating Hearts
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Friday 20th November 2009: Otters Sing Lullabies present Conquering Animal Sound, Molly Wagger and Aurora Stands in Snow at the Bowery.
This will be a quirky night of music, all quite gentle in most senses, but nevertheless a little disturbing in others. There will be a lot of acoustic loveliness and quite a bit of slightly eccentric electronic trickery as well.
Saturday 21st November 2009: Charity Baw at the Roxy Art House.
Pretty much every bastard is playing this one. There are local heroes such as Withered Hand, Aberfeldy, Benni Hemm Hemm and Come On Gang but, somewhat more intriguingly from my perspective, there will also be the amazing (The Real) Tuesday Weld. That sounds a bit hard on the local contingent, but I don’t mean it that way, simply that I have been a Tuesday Weld fan for bloody ages and never once had the chance to sample their visually sumptuous live show. Yes, yes I did just use the word sumptuous. Sorry. What I basically mean is that they use their rather excellent videos as a backdrop to the live performance, which sound brilliant. And at least a little sumptuous.
(The Real) Tuesday Weld – Kix
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Sunday 22nd November 2009: Debutant, Rasied by Wolves, The Last Battle at the Bowery.
This is my gig of the week, I think. I’ve not properly seen any of these bands live and I have been twitching to see all three for a while. Debutant’s atmospheric guitar layering will probably be quite distinct from the more traditional songwriting of the other two bands, but it looks like this should be a good ‘un.
Good Shoes, Copy Haho, and the Foxx is on the 26th no?
Copy Haho/Good Shoes/JhF is next Thursday.
Also, Sunday sees the recently reformed/not-concentrating-on-other-projects-any-more Field Music play Sneaky Pete’s.
Not a complete arse, then, but could try harder.
Also, The Stormy Seas are playing at the Wee Red Bar on Friday with Stagger Rats and The Valkarys.
That’s my tuppence.
Isn’t Stagger Rats a great band name?
Duly amended – I think I got that date from my Facebook event updates somehow. Ah well, never mind.
I saw the Fieldmusic one actually. What are they like, decent? I don’t really know anything about them.
Field Music are fucking brilliant.
Intelligent, literate pop music.
It’s two brothers – they took time off to work on other projects – School of Language and the Week That Was. Though, strangely, both of them played in both of those bands.
I managed to talk myself out of going to that gig this morning, but may have just talked myself back into it.
I dunno Bart, your first paragraph was kinda ambivalent.
i’ve just fwd’d Bart’s comment to our respective girlfriends!
Tim – Shoes/Haho/Foxx gig is the 26th, yeah
Bart – when you say “next Thursday” it confuses me. That, to me, means the next Thursday to happen….which is the Thursday this week. You know? I think it’s just me being weird though. Its even worse at work when people say “next again day” meaning tomorrow. But to me that means the day AFTER tomorrow (not the super freezing shit film). It drives me nuts. English language is filled with such frustrating local anomalies.
I also hate it when you ask someone if they want a cup of tea and they reply “no”. You say…”are you sure?” and they reply….”no”. They are repeating the original answer but fail to understand there is a new question!!! So you say “so you’re NOT sure that you dont want a cup of tea?”. They say “What?” and you conclude by leaping on them and gouging out their eyes with a spoon.
next Thursday to me means the named day of the following week
this Thursday is the correct manner to address a day of the current week.
everyone knows that MC!
hold on, which screaming weirdo’s use the term next again day, instead of using tomorrow?
They should be shot with shit
Next again day? No wonder you get so vexed at work, Madcow, they sound like total loonies.
When I first moved to Scotland, “the back of…” really confused the hell out of me.
I’d ask someone when they want to meet you, and they’d say “the back of 2?”
And I’d say, “okay”, and not have a fucking clue what they meant. Is that just after 2? Just before 2? Half 2?
So I’d just turn up at 1, to be safe.
RMC – Ah, so I am a fool. Damn. I thought as much! Bah.
Bart – the “back of” also annoys the tits right out of me. To me, after much deliberation, it means AFTER the hour but thats no guarantee that the muppet who used it to organise an important meeting is using the same criteria! In fact, is there any accepted standard on this one at all? What a ridiculous situation.
“I’ll see you next again day at the back of three”. No…..you probably won’t. *GOUGE!*
“Going through to Glasgow..” used to get me.
Going through what? There isn’t a great long tunnel between here and Glasgow!
But now I’ve started saying it myself.
Madcow are you sure you don’t have Asperger’s?
Sounds sore….
I am sure I don’t. It’s everyone else that is mental.
Arse burgers?
“Precious hamburgers?”
who’s RMC?
is that like someone shouting Dave at me?
sumptuous indeed. the baw i mean.
sumptuous baw.
did i really just type that?
lawks.
Dylan, I think the use of the word ‘through’ is only really there to emphasise the supposed trek of a distance there is between us and Glasgow. Even though the distance is relatively small it seems that that very fact could incur such an annoyance to cause a self presumptive ignorance to the whole thing entirely.
Oh, and the train to Glasgow does go through a shit load of tunnels.
I don’t think I use that phrase myself. Not sure why I’m defending it…
“the back of” is an excellent phrase, perfectly ambiguous in a lets not commit to any particular time and see what happens kind of manner. you are all very wrong, haters.
i’m amazed that lothian haven’t rolled it out as part of their bus timetables yet actually. “there’ll probably be a couple of buses around the back of three. they’ll take you through to glasgow.”
oh, if only bus stops talked.
RCC – i have arse burgers. Sorry!
I like ‘the back of…’ as a time signifier, probably because I am absolutely always at least a little bit late.
I really like arse burgers.
I like a prime cutlet of arse burger every now and again too. My prime cut of choice would be Jessica Biels arse burgers. Followed by Jessica Alba’s smaller but probably equally as enjoyable arse burgers. With a side of tits.
Now now gentlemen.