Musician and Producer in Edinburgh
Bought tickets for this ages ago and was unfortunately re-arranged … worth waiting for though to see the brilliant Rosalie and her spectacular band again. Could write more, but the great review by John Scott on HiFi Pig below goes into super detail!
Attended by George, Jan & Andy
I’ve missed out on all the Skids and Big Country re-union tours of recent years, but succumbed to this one, and really glad I did. Richard Jobson is the only original member on show of the Skids and his support band The Armoury Show. But the bands are great and he carries it off perfectly with great energy, passion and humour. I sang along at the top of my voice, amazed I could still remember most of the words to my favourite Skids classics from 40 years ago!
Attended by George
We had a blast playing at Bothwell Scarecrow Festival yesterday. Our first outdoor show as part of a community fun day. Ta to everyone that came along and also to Stevie for looking after us. No soundcheck and a last minute set change! Pro as!
I absolutely loved Kagoule, Cai Burn’s previous band. Since they sadly split he has changed direction slightly with his new project Blood Wizard. He has a very distinct songwriting style though so the songs and playing were fine by me and this show was very good. Will watch his developments with great interest.
Attended by George & Andy
Such a fantastic audience in fine singing voice at THE LIQUID ROOMS (Official) on Sunday! We had a blast playing for you. Thanks to the brilliant Dirty Harry Edinburgh for being so kind to us and to all of you who helped and supported us. See you again soon. xx The Postcards
(Thanks so much to Mark of Waysted Photography and Steve (shotbyagunn photography) for pics. Much appreciated.)
I’ve enjoyed a bit of James music but not followed closely until I noticed this show with a stellar band including Phil Selway from Radiohead and especially Nina Persson from The Cardigans … just had to go, and very glad I did! Didn’t know many of the songs but that didn’t matter when the performances were so excellent. Would have liked more of Nina’s singing, but not really her show, so fair enough. Well done James, enjoyed that!
Attended by George
Our annual Edinburgh Festival treat is an evening of fantastic Bowie at the gorgeous Merchant’s Hall with the sensational John and the gang. Two brilliant sets of all the hits by the best Bowie tribute band around (and we have seen many!). Such fun. Love on ya!
Attended by George & Karen
A long but enjoyable day in Glasgow started with a special Q&A session with Hooky at guitarguitar just down the road from Barrowlands. Entertaining as always and heard some new funny anecdotes prompted by some interesting questions! A great character and a guy pretty influential in the lives of all his fans like me. Just along the road is the amazing Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre that I just had to visit after the beautiful music it inspired in Maeve Gilchrist (will see and say more in future).
Then … see him again shortly after with quite a few more people in a packed Barrowlands Ballroom. This time also for a bit longer … 3 hours start to finish! :- firstly a 45 minute starter set of New Order songs; then the 2 main courses being the 2 Joy Division albums, ’Unknown Pleasures’ and ’Closer’ end to end in their entirety; finished off by an encore dessert of 4 non album track Joy Division songs, obviously with ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ to close.
Great band and really good delivery just like the last time I saw him, but this time with all the Joy Division songs I love instead of the New Order stuff that never moved me much in the past. Such a long time on my feet though, don’t know where he gets the energy from. I’ll never be allowed to complain about playing 26 songs a night again!
Attended by – George, Chris, Louis, Neil and Trish
A great couple of sets at Whistlebinkies in Edinburgh on Sunday. Thanks to everyone that came down. And danced! And sang! Definitely our favourite Binkies gig so far.
