Limbo

Plastic Animals Plastic Animals build layers of sound. A bass dances. A guitar wails. Distorted howling. It cascades onto everyday pop songs to give them a character all of their own. One intro feels like paragliding over Iceland; the soundscape suggesting huge, abrupt topography while the guitar adds whistles through rocky crags. For all the […]

“A cornucopia of electronic delights” – thus the evening is introduced, very aptly, by Miaoux Miaoux. And it is he who kicks things off. Miaoux Miaoux Just a man with a guitar occupies the stage. Around him are various little boxes of electronic jiggery-pokery. The ‘man with guitar’ shtick points towards a singer-songwriter. And indeed […]

Blank Canvas There’s nothing better than the immediacy of chest-vibrating tom drum beats. Add a beefy bass line and jaggy guitar and you’ve got a potent combination. On top of this, the singer urgently bellows. It all sounds a bit like Interpol, but you know, good. ‘Deadlock’ is a potential anthem. “We lost our heads,” […]

Iona Marshall Iona elegantly dispenses any doubt that just one person can enthrall a room. On stage, she seems utterly relaxed, her banter almost nonchalant. But this belies a polished performance. A voice capable of expressing every emotion is brought to the fore with immaculate mic control. She uses loop pedal on almost every song […]

While support acts The Young Spooks and Snide Rhythms were both Limbo alumni, Her Royal Highness hadn’t played the club before and had only done select gigs around the rest of Edinburgh as well as choosing to launch debut album The First at this gig, so it was quite hotly anticipated.  It didn’t disappoint either […]

The Scotsman’s reviewer, Nick Mitchell, was again in attendance for this Limbo. Read his review here.

The Scotsman sent their man, Nick Mitchell, along to this Limbo and you can read what he made of it right here.

Saturday 5th March was a very special night, as Limbo welcomed back old favourites Withered Hand and Zoey Van Goey alongside Withered Hand friends O’ Messy Life, from Newcastle.  Withered Hand was appearing on the eve of a trip to America, to play the legendary SXSW festival in Austin, Texas and then conduct an inaugural […]

Thursday 3rd March 2011 saw Edinburgh’s mighty FOUND trio push their music to the next level when they launched third album factorycraft to no shortage of critical acclaim and a capacity crowd at The Voodoo Rooms.  Having been operating on the fringes of the live music scenes in Edinburgh and Aberdeen (where the trio met […]

Wednesday 9th February featured a mid-week Limbo special with 6 Day Riot, on a short Scottish tour, plus The Pineapple Chunks and White Heath.  6 Day Riot recently released their second album, On This Island, further developing their gypsy-folk style and making some great videos for the best songs, which you can see here, here […]