I like the fact that there’s a driving beat and some very fast and strange stuff from Alasdair going on over the top. This is going to be fun live
PS. For those of you that are on the edge of your seats with anticipation, I’ll get round to writing a proper update sooner or later.
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My suit isn’t big enough.
It doesn’t have enough flashing lights either:
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And here’s another last minute gig. Calum’s been asked to host Blue Wednesday this month (at the Forest Cafe) and as such will be playing a little set of his own material, and yours truly will be along to to accompany him on bass. His band, Neoviolet are also playing and worth checking out. So come along… as I have the day off work, I might investigate my new box of tricks and see if I can fit it into the set somewhere.
Oh yes, and I handed in my thesis 
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Hi Alasdair,
Can you come and play bass for three songs on Tuesday 6th April (which
is next week)? Paul Gilbody has had a cancellation and offered me a
three song set at Acoustic Edinburgh. So my plan is to go in, play a blinding three
song set (which would require you on bass) and wow them that much that
they feel like tits for treating me like an also ran.
That’s if you’re free. If you’re not, i will turn down the opportunity i think.
Let me know anyway,
it’s 7pm at Medina on Tuesday to do a quick line check if
that’s okay, and i expect we’ll probably be on quite early, probably
first, though he didn’t say.
Calum C…….
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Here are some upcoming gigs. I’ll be accompanying Calum Carlyle on bass, and will be playing ‘cello with Lindsay and the Storm. All gigs are in Edinburgh, unless it says otherwise.
15th April, 9pm – Calum Carlyle – Featured Artist at Out of the Bedroom. The Tron
24th April – ?pm – Calum Carlyle - The Hide @ The Argyle Bar
25th April – 8pm – Lindsay and the Storm – The Listening Room, The Blue Blazer
29th April – 8pm – Lindsay and the Storm - Concrete Campfire, Bar Brel, Glasgow
30th April – 8pm – Lindsay and the Storm – MUSA Arts Cafe, Aberdeen (Note: don’t know if I’m playing this gig or not yet)
22nd May – 2:30pm – Calum Carlyle – Elvis Shakespeare, Leith Walk
2nd June - 7pm – Lindsay and the Storm – Secret CDs – The Poenix Cellar Bar
6th June – 8pm – Lindsay and the Storm - Acoustic – Aragon, Glasgow
7th June – ?pm – Lindsay and the Storm – The Voodoo Rooms
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I try to proof read,
Yet my mind cannot focus,
Bored of my thesis.
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I discovered Starless and Bible Black yesterday. Yes, they share a name with a King Crimson album. Which is why I initially had a listen. But there a whole of Fairport Convention/Pentangle influences kicking around. Great stuff. I’ll have to keep an eye out for any gigs in Scotland
From the band’s website:
2009 sees the release of their second long-player, “Shape Of The Shape” – an album which brings together the sounds of Topanga Canyon country rock, Manchester guitar jangle and outer-space psychedelic drones. Gone are the dulcimers and banjos of the first album, replaced instead by a harder wall of Telecaster and Moog and sitting in the centre of this bold, widescreen sound resides the pure and husky voice of their chanteuse, Helene Gautier.
Recorded at Bryn Derwen in the wilds of the Snowdonian mountains and during all-night sessions in the relative tranquility of their local village hall, “Shape Of The Shape” is an album of contrasting styles, themes and approaches that coheres beautifully into a seamless whole. From sweltering swamp rock to gothic bluesy chanson via unplugged rustic balladry, a jazz-folk tinged instrumental and a sprawling nine-minute psych-choral drone opus the album traverses many different takes on the genre but never loses sight of the importance of a classic tune.
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A fantastic blog from Trey Gunn with a great selection of youtube clips… Still not sure about Wooten though… I think that clip just highlights why I don’t like his playing very much. The Bootsy clip is great though. 1! 1! 1! 1!
Hmmm. You know, maths is a lot harder than it used to be. Or maybe I’m just not as bright. Probably the later
where 
Time to refresh my memory of trig identities.
(Disclaimer: this post mainly exists as wordpress was the most convenient latex editor and I wanted to make a note of my equation so I don’t forget, and if you know me, you’ll know that my hand writing is pretty bad at times. So is my grammer).
In other, more exciting news, I have a gig this week.
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Cantor's Myspace Blog The AlK and AlC Blog I have been recently listening to… Roger’s Blog
