Limbo 055 - Thursday 15th January 2009
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Happy new year from Limbo! We hope you had as refreshing and rejuvenating a break at Christmas and Hogmanay as we did. It's been a whole month since the last Limbo and now we're back and absolutely raring to get stuck into 2009. We start the year with a pop pop POP flavoured double bill from Glasgow: the fantastically titled MY COUSIN I BID YOU FAREWELL are one of the most promising acts we've come across on myspace in a long time. Their debut single has got industry A&Rs salivating for more recordings and they have only played three gigs so far but this already includes a sold-out show at salubrious Glasgow night-spot Nice N Sleaazy's. THE BOYCOTTS are an equally energetic bunch, whose demo has been igniting our headphones like lightning over the last two weeks. This will be MCIBYF's Edinburgh debut but they're both gonna be ace so you've gotta come and see the both of them!
myspace.com/superadventuremusic
myspace.com/kidcanaveral
We get a dose of the blues, invested with the spirit of a screaming banshee, some filthy, sexy garage rock n roll and a curious, new fruit-loving outfit, all of whom are guaranteed to strike a chord with anyone either tired of or uninterested in mainstream sounds. F*** the mainstream! (The Kings Of Leon are the new Eagles!) Let's rock!!
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My Cousin I Bid You Farewell are from Glasgow in Scotland and the invention of 24 year old Jonathan Sellar. Their debut live performance was at the BBC on the 5th of November 2008. Their second was a sold out show at Nice N Sleazy on November the 14th to launch their first single, Neverland. Their third appearance live was on the Big Stage in Glasgow's George Square as part of the Christmas Winterfest entertainment on Thursday the 11th of December. The band are currently recording in order to further the interest of various labels and they plan to start work on their debut LP sometime in 2009.
My Cousin I Bid You Farewell have a strange, magnetic charm that makes us extremely excited indeed. Singer Jonathan Sellar has a voice that is unmistakably and uniquely his own, while his band's music sounds like a restrained Arcade Fire with some satisfying use of piano.' (The Pop Cop)
The Boycotts formed in the early months of 2008, played their first gig at the end of June and recorded their first demo at the beginning of September. Since then they have played Glasgow’s King Tuts, supported New York’s The Pains of Being Light at Heart and attracted scouts from Sony and Warner Brothers to recent gigs. 2009 promises to be an even better year with a mini tour and recording session at Chem19 currently in the pipeline.
Super Adventure Club are first on and there's no shortage of fans out in force to support them. They get a healthy response for the crowd that's gathered. Theirs is a weird and wonderful mix of prog and math rock, jazz and unusual lyrics delivered by singers Bruce and Mandy. There's a strong cabaret element to their myspace which isn't as pronounced when they perform live but they do bring a lot of energy to the stage as well as quite a lot of humour and they're a tight unit, all of which becomes particularly clear when they're caught in the throes of one of their custom-made, 'spazz-jazz' freakouts. It's impossible to categorise or pigeon-hole Super Adventure Club and this is definitely part of their charm but they're without a doubt one of the weirdest and most experimental acts we've had on the Limbo stage and more likely to divide the crowd than unite, which is always healthy in our book, but we're pretty contrary like that.
Come On Gang! are next on stage. This is the third time they've played Limbo this year and what a year it's been for them, having started 2008 as an unknown art school outfit, albeit with a rapidly swelling fanbase among critics and public alike, and finished it in the List Mazgazine's Hot 100. Start The Sound is the second recording Come On Gang! have released - their first single came out through Euphonios in the summer and was also launched at Limbo (check the website for the video we made) - and we're not expecting it to be their last by any stretch. Clealry enjoying the ride, they turn the heat all the way up once again this evening and get a resoudning cheer from the crowd, not to mention everyone dancing down the front. Between the elfin looks and angelic voice of Sarah (vox/drums), the cheeky Irish humour of Trev (bass) and equally mischievous, fun-loving attitude of Mikey (guitar), they've got a lot of character and charm by the bucket-load, which begets a killer dynamic when the trio is on stage. There really is nothing to dislike about Come On Gang!, so infectious is their pop-punk energy and affecting their bittersweet songs.
And so to Kid Canaveral, the architects of the DIY Straight To Video label releasing the new split 7" single. On a sad note, tonight's performance is drummer Dan's final gig after three years with the band. He's stepping aside to let them move on into 2009 with a new as yet unannounced band member. KC are one of the best live acts kicking around the Scottish indie music scene right now. Similar to Come On Gang!, they have a bittersweet quality, singing simple songs about simple things which are immediately affecting and lifted from the quagmire of mediocrity that besets so many indie bands keen to emulate some Eighties indie staple by Kid Canaveral's ear for a cracking melody. 'Are yous having a good night?' enquires singer David mid-set. 'This is brilliant.' And then they tear through (Couldn't Dance B-side) Teenage Fanclub. The rest of the set is just as immediate and brings to mind John Peel's classic Radio 1 live session of the Eighties. With three killer singles, Smash Hits, Couldn't Dance and Second Time Around, already behind them and a debut LP around the next corner, there's little stopping Kid Canaveral now and, fresh back from their UK tour to promote the latest one, they're clearly loving the experience too.
A blues-rock three-piece who have been electrifying the Edinburgh swamp for some time, with unlikely front-woman Sara Sidewinder unleashing the devil in her (guitar/vox), backed by Andy Anaconda (lead guitar) and Mike Mamba (drums). It's all about their glorious live shows, as any one of their many fans will tell you.
A friend recommended Conflict Diamonds to us again recently. We'd heard about the duo before as they've gigged quite a bit in Edinburgh in the past, but when we listened to their myspace we thought they sounded like a lot of fun and, oh look, there's a great interview with them in this month's Skinny, so we're clearly not the only ones who think they've got something vital going on. Theirs is basically a garage rock sound (think Iggy And the Stooges, The Sonics, MC5 etc), but they give it a twist with some speedy, metal riffs and do it all so very well they sound as tight as a nun's chastity belt. There's an unmistakably dirty, sexy rock n roll energy coming off Conflict Diamonds which is guaranteed to heat up the room.
The Pineapple Chunks cite The Fall, Huey Lewis And The News, Stephen Malkmus, Deerhoof and The Beta Band as influences. Interesting mix. They forget to mention Syd Barrett, which is surprising as, lyrically at the very least, there seems to be something of a debt owed - perhaps it's a subconscious one - with their stream-of-counsciousness, surrealist flow. They're not that far away from early Floyd musically either. Anyway, it's an interesting sound and not without humour, as the hilariously miserable and quite epic I Left My Mojo In London Town exhibits on the chorus: 'Oh, and i lost my soul, I spent nine fucking years in that stinking hole.' Sure to strike a chord with a number of Limbo regulars, not to mention a lot of other folk who have little time for the Big Smoke, the Pineapple Chunks sound very British and refreshingly different from the mass. We look forward to seeing them debut at Limbo.