It's a rather varied week of gigging this week, with Richard Hawley at the Queen's Hall at one end of the spectrum and the Japanese War Effort at the Traverse Bar tonight at the other. There are a few side-notes worth mentioning as well - like the vanishing Whispertown 2000 gig at Sneaky's on Saturday which I would have liked to go to, but which I assume was cancelled and the appearance, for free, of 4AD's Big Pink at Sick Note , late at Cabaret Voltaire on Thursday. I think I can manage maybe a couple of [...]
Well the truly mental Edinburgh August schedule is nearly past and I have to confess that, for the purpose of writing this post anyway, that is something of a relief. This week I am involved in a couple of things - firstly, Thursday's Born to be Wide in the Speakeasy at Cabaret Voltaire, Olaf Furniss's regular night of chat and help and networking and stuff like that. This week I have been asked to put together a playlist of unsigned Edinburgh bands for the Wheel of Fortune. There's something of a grey area in that signed/unsigned stuff, so I might [...]
Hello everyone - sorry for the lateness of this post, but unfortunately sometimes actual jobs with wages and things have to take precedence over things Toad, just for a little while. I have spent the day at a meeting in Inverness, and I am desperate for a really good sleep. There's not a lot on in Edinburgh this week as far as I can tell. The brilliant Animal Magic Tricks is playing pretty much as I write this, and I am gutted that I won't get the chance to see her. Well, not until Saturday, anyway, which is [...]
I am not leaving the house this week. Instead I am going to be locked in my sweaty little internet den (or the 'editing suite', if you want it to sound a bit less grotty) beavering away at session videos. I couldn't resist a little leak of one of the Meursault recordings here though, but that's because the whole thing is coming together really nicely and I am just plain excited. And the Festival ends this week as well. Would you believe I haven't done a single show this year, not one. I mean, [...]
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