Live in Edinburgh This Week – 7th June 2010
There is only one thing I care about happening in Edinburgh this week, and that is sweet, sweet sleep. After the Scottish Showcase at the Old Queen’s Head last night (brilliantly put together by Anthony and Alice from God Don’t Like It, God bless their odd-couply socks) we stuffed everyone back in the van and I drove the eight hours back from Lahndan just in time to drop everyone off for a sleep and come straight to work. So my brain is now in a puddle in the bottom of my shoes, and bollocks to gigs this week.
And you know what? There’s fuck all happening in Edinburgh this week. Yes, genuinely fuck all. Unless I miss my guess which, let’s face it, wouldn’t surprise anyone there really isn’t a single gig that I would personally be heading to this week. And you know, that might be the first time since I started writing this weekly listings post that this has happened.
Anyhow, in the absence of my anyone else’s shit to pimp, I suppose I should just pimp some of my own shit, because on Thursday night Jesus H. Foxx and Meursault are playing at the Go North music industry booze-a-thon in Inverness, before Meursault head on to play at the Rockness Festival on Sunday. The Foxx have just released a teaser from their debut album, a track called Jeff & Josephine, which you can find on their blog, here.
As well as musicky things, you’ll find Derick and Olaf from Born to Be Wide up in Inverness, hosting four seminars over two days at the Ramada Jarvis Hotel on the subjects of bands who do everything themselves*, band management, alternative ways to making money out of music and getting your music synched to TV or film. The full details are on their MySpace page, and I recommend getting along if you can, because these seminars can be very useful.
Even if the chat itself can get a little derailed into amusing anecdotes at times which, whilst highly enjoyable, are not of all that much practical use, you can generally spot the people you want to have an extended chat with later on and then collar them in the bar when they’re vulnerable – so there are several ways to get a bit of extra value out of these things.
And, of course, it will be a monumental piss up.
Jesus H. Foxx – Jeff and Josephine
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*Rather hilariously including our own Neil Pennycook as a representative of a band who, and I quote from the flyer: “book their own tours, organise their own festivals, release their own records, and manage to make money”.  Money? Money? Where the fuck is my yacht in the fucking Bahamas then?
Belladrum Festival on Sunday?????? Are you in a Time Warp Matthew??
Surely you mean RockNess?
Anyways…See you around at the Booze up on Thursday
Oh yeah. That’s the one. Duly changed.
Poor, tired Toad. All he wants is a nice damp pond to flop into.
More or less anything would do. I’d settle for a broom cupboard at this point.
Also – the foxx blog link is not, well, linked.
Yes it is, look up there, what’s wrong with you man?
Wow – I must have hallucinated it!
Yep. I think you must be over-tired.
As there really isn’t owt on this week I have decided to tell you how good Glissando and John Knox Sex Club were at the Roxy on thursday and friday nights. Damn good.
Glissando were down to a duo but still very haunting and as good as ever. Friday was a relevation as I hadn’t seen JKSC before although I had listned to there very well packaged CD. They were very good indeed for a young band still learning their trade. Ones to watch out for
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GoNorth is going to be a complete write off!
Wilf, John Knox Sex club are definitley ones to watch. What are the bets they sign for FatCat?
That doesn’t make them sound very inspiring.
I know. It was me making fun of fun of FatCat as they find bands through Frightened Rabbit and Twilight Sad MySpace friends and they are part of that Frabbit, Three Blind Wolves Glasgow bunch.
They are actually a dead good band. So pipe down you!
Limbo is on Thursday 10th June, Quinn, North Atlantic Oscillation & The Machine Room at Voodoo rooms.
The Leith Festival also starts this Friday with lots going on around and about.
Fuck, I forgot about the Leith Festival.
Chris Bradley is playing at the Leith Festival on Sunday…with support from Tam Trainer and Austen George.
Glissando are shite fact!
There is life!
This Saturday is the Electric Circus’ first birthday party with live sets from White Heath and Withered Hand – £3 if you’re in circus themed garb, £5 before midnight, £6 after. Doors at 8.
Oh brilliant, thank goodness for that. I knew that was on, but I hadn’t seen the lineup anywhere. Thanks!
the j. & j. audio file doesn’t work. sads. “file not found”, it says.
That’s because the file’s not FOUND, it’s Jesus H Foxx!
(Sorry, Edinburgh band name comedy. It’s a very specific sub-genre. It basically only has that joke in it, and maybe some of the funnier mis-spellings of Meursault.)
Does this make us sub-editors? Thats not a reference to a band called Editors. Who I havent heard. Because they are not Crosby, Stills and Nash. Or Pavement.
If anyone is DESPERATE to download it NOW – its on http://jesushfoxx.com if you just click the picture of the lovely box there that Mew made. Must have taken him aaaages.
Should work now.
I can’t think of anymore Edinburgh specific band jokes, I can only think of one generic band joke that applies to every band in the world.
Scene: A man enters a shop and walks up to the counter where he is greeted by the shopkeeper
Shopkeeper: Hello, sir. What would you like?
Customer: I’d like a pack of guitar strings, please.
Shopkeeper: Hmmm.. Let me guess. You’re in a band, and you’re the drummer, right?
Customer: Yes I am! How did you know?
Shopkeeper: This is a Fish & Chip shop.
Q: Why did Neil Pancakes Pennycook have a heart attack?
A: Because he always adds “meur salt”.
Fucking hell.