Limbo

Limbo’s Seventh Birthday (yes, you read that right) sees two of our favourite up-and-coming Edinburgh bands play an exclusive double-headline bill, with support from one our favourite new bands on the local live scene.  The headline acts both share equal billing and stage time, with the exact running order to be decided by a coin-toss on the night! […]

Following the tearing success of our January Sale on the 25th, we’re extending the goodwill and pocket-friendly good times for another month at Limbo and thus very warmly invite you to partake in the LIMBO FEBRUARY SALE (TM) on Saturday 8th February!  Scroll down for more info. The second Limbo of 2014 sees a bill […]

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 […]

Intense dentist-drill synths and sharp, cyclical guitar patterns make out with perky motorik drums and probing bass to produce a prog/post-punk metronomic groove thing with plenty of intensity. They are reminiscent of Nought, Public Service Broadcasting or Plank! With some unhinged sparse, yelpy vocals; Krautrock reborn with balls. Birdhead are Stephen Donkin and David Nicklen, […]

Last seen at Limbo in 2008, and also boasting members of Goodbye Mr Mackenzie / Angelfish (i.e. Scottish indie royalty from the late Eighties/early Nineties and Shirley Manson’s original band before she went off to become the lead singer of Garbage in 1994), ISA AND THE FILTHY TONGUES are back with an exciting new live […]