A Band Called Quinn live at Limbo
Glasgow’s much vaunted A BAND CALLED QUINN have played Limbo once, in June 2010. It was their first Edinburgh date in some, to showcase tracks from forthcoming album score for the highly acclaimed Vanishing Point Theatre production of John Gay’s 18th Century masterpiece, THE BEGGAR’S OPERA, which earned the band a devoted new fan in celebrated author IAN RANKIN. (And There’s a very good story about Rankin himself phoning in to daytime radio stations personally to harangue music programmers for not playing more music by Quinn!)
QUINN have worked with JARVIS COCKER, THE PASTELS, ALEX KAPRANOS, KID LOCO and BILL WELLS, among others, and, with chanteuse Louise Quinn fronting the band, are the closest thing in Glasgow to a 21ST CENTURY BLONDIE.
‘I left the theatre stunned and wanting to experience it all again….. and then someone had the idea of capturing A Band Called Quinn’s performance for posterity, which is why I’m writing this and you’re reading it. In fact, stop reading and get listening. Close your eyes and you could almost be there… Meantime, I’ll give it five stars’ (Ian Rankin)
‘A pop-art treat’ (Q)
‘One of the best albums to come out of Scotland in donkeys’ (Daily Record)
‘brilliant new album… packed with beautifully crafted alternative pop’ (News of the World)
‘excellent electro stompers’ (Guardian Guide)
