Thanks to all at The Ferry, The Spiders on Mars for the support slot and all the dancers and singers who came see us. We love The Ferry and hope to be back there soon. Special thanks to Alan Borland for the great pics
Author: georgeglen
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The Postcards – Whistlebinkies, Edinburgh – 14 May 2023
Our first public gig of the year at @whistlebinkies on Sunday. Why did we leave it so long?
8 new songs including tunes by bands we’ve never played before like New Order, House of Love, Magazine and The Lotus Eaters. Always great fun to play there and thanks to the many folk that came down to see us!
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Hanley & The Baird – O2 Academy, Baron Suite, Edinburgh – 5 May 2023
Great fun at the Sing In The City Awards party 2023. We do nights out like no others! 350 members, our biggest award party yet, 14 awards, Hanley and the Baird band, what a night!
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Quasi – Broadcast, Glasgow – 3 May 2023
Being such a massive fan of Sleater-Kinney it’s inexplicable that I never managed to see them until after drummer Janet Weiss left the band. She is my drums hero and I thought I might never get to see her play … until now. So excited to be right at the front to experience her and Sam Coombes deliver a powerhouse set to a packed and enthusiastic Glasgow crowd.
I managed to climb down off Cloud 9 just in time for a quick chat, selfie and poster purchase afterwards. What a night. Life (almost) complete. Wonderful!
Attended by George & Ian
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His Lordship – The Caves, Edinburgh – 2 April 2023
His Lordship play pure, unadulterated Rock’n’Roll. Straightforward but skilful, raucous but intelligent, cool but hot and sweaty. Always brilliant! Guitarist James Walbourne and drummer Kristoffer Sonne, joined by bassist Dave Page. What a glorious reminder of how much I love the 3 piece rock band! Awesome.
Attended by George, Andy & Douglas
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Hanley & The Baird – Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh – 24 March 2023
Really enjoyed our set and the whole night at our Voodoo Rooms show, brilliantly supported by Paul Gilbody and Ewan Patrick. Can’t wait to return!
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Lust For Life – Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh – 5 March 2023
What a strange but cool experience! This show was originally billed as Tony Fox Sales and friends touring the classic Iggy Pop album ’Lust For Life’ on it’s 45 years anniversary. Tony and brother Hunt Sales played on the album. Tony became unavailable and at the last minute Glen Matlock took over on bass, which made me happy to see a real live Sex Pistol join a stellar band including drums hero Clem Burke and guitar hero Kevin Armstrong. And with Katie Puckrick singing no-one really knew what to expect!
Honourable mention first to supports Walker And The Brotherhood of the Grape and Ladies … most enjoyable. A packed crowd were now excited for the star attractions, and especially Kerry eagerly awaiting her drums hero Clem! And peering at the setlist I saw 24 songs … gonna be a long night.
But the first part of the set flew past with a track by track rendition of the classic ‘Lust For Life’ album. Band and Katie sounding great and even the less well known songs felt familiar and done justice to. Then followed a selection of songs from Iggy and the band’s various careers. All good and the crowd really enjoying. Karen was suffering from standing so long so we stuck it out to see Clem playing ‘Rip Her To Shreds’ by Blondie then said our goodbyes. I’m told we saw much of the best but diehards certainly got their moneys worth! Kerry of course was over the moon to get a drumstick and selfie with Clem. Magic!
Attended by George, Karen, Andy, Jude, Kerry & Douglas
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The Postcards – The Counting House, Edinburgh – 18 Feb 2023
Our first performance of 2023 on Saturday night saw us play an extra special show for ‘Pretty In Pink’ Donna’s birthday. Such a lovely crowd and Donna got to play air guitar for the encore. We played some old favourites, some of which will be heading to the subs bench as we’ve got plenty of new songs on the way.
We’ve got 3 extra special gigs booked already for 2023, Mums the word on those for now but you won’t want to miss them….!!
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Dry Cleaning – Barrowlands, Glasgow – 17 Feb 2023
My third time seeing Dry Cleaning and one of my favourite bands just get better and better. I’ve not listened to new album ‘Stumpwork’ that much yet, but it’s growing on me and the wonderful ‘Gary Ashby’ might have been my top song of 2022!
And what a brilliant set with the best new songs and the best of my favourite bangers from the past. Their confidence and different personalities really shine now. Superb playing and contrasting bouncing about from Tom and Lewis v Florence statue like with telling facial expressions only. I was right at the front so got the whole experience. Cool support acts in Dehd and Thus Love too. Magic!
Attended by George, Andy & Stu
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Young Fathers – La Belle Angele, Edinburgh – 10 Feb 2023
Young Fathers are a significant force in modern music and I’m really proud of the international impact of three guys from Edinburgh. But I have always manged to just miss going to see them, ’til now. And to be honest their music has never been quite my cup of tea though I had heard they were amazing live. I can confirm that’s absolutely correct!
This event was the album launch show for their new album ‘Heavy Heavy’ and though I enjoyed my sneak preview listens they didn’t major on those songs only and included plenty of past favourites. Much appreciated by me since I enjoyed hearing all their best songs.
Like the packed enthusiastic crowd I was well impressed by their performance. So intense and arresting, great singing and moving interplay between the three and supporting musician Callum Easter. They have serious messages and matching demeanours, no smiles were cracked, well only once! I smiled all the way through though. Superb, must catch them again soon.
Attended by George
