Andy Brown's Victorian Karaoke live at Limbo
Far and away one of the most eccentric, distinctive and unique characters on the Edinburgh scene, Andy Brown’s hulking frame and long beard are to Edinburgh nightlife what garlic is to French cuisine: quite synonymous and utterly indispensable! As lead guitarist with swamp-rocking garage/blues revivalists and Edinburgh-favourites Sara And The Snakes, Andy has been a regular feature on the Limbo stage since the night began. He’s also been a regular face at all of the other nights Limbo has ever been involved in (not to mention just about every other Edinburgh club worth its salt) since they all started, too.
Andy Brown’s Victorian Karaoke consists of the man himself, his electric (and maybe his acoustic) guitar, a suitably ‘seasonal’ set of songs, not forgetting his vintage gramophone. You can expect Andy to play some of his own songs (accompanied by CD of his own tracks), some of someone else’s songs and then a few of his very old shellac records (hence the gramophone). If you’re really lucky, he might even recite some poetry from his little book. It’s about as simple a proposition as you can get for a live act but nonetheless quite enchanting and perfect for an event of this nature.
Oh yeah, the ‘Victorian Karaoke’ stage name has absolutely nothing to do with the content of Andy’s set (bar some of his favourite poems, by Keats or Byron, if they do feature), it’s just a catchy name for a unique talent that some friends of Andy’s thought up for a gig he was doing some time ago and apparently it actually relates to Andy’s singularly 19th Century look….
(Andy doesn’t do myspace or any of that)
