Limbo

Tirelessly creative Falkirk soul Adam Stafford returns to Limbo after a lengthy hiatus from the club (last seen fronting Limbo favourites Y’all Is Fantasy Island some four and a half years ago), promoting his excellent solo album, Imaginary Walls Collapse (Song, by Toad). This sees him harness the simple, but devastatingly powerful, combination of his gravelly voice […]

An Edinburgh ‘super-group’ featuring Limbo alumni Grant Campbell (St Jude’s Infirmary, Edinburgh School for The Deaf, Young Spooks, Naked), Dan Mutch (The Leg, Khaya/Desc), Alun Thomas (The Leg, Withered Hand) and Andy Brown (Sara And The Snakes) – restless creative souls one and all.  This review by The List’s Neil Cooper and this interview by […]

Battery Face Industrial growls, groans and howls fill the air. Battery Face start as they mean to on. They mix riffing so heavy it sounds like two bulldozers wrestling, synth with a ferocious bite, Paganini level virtuoso guitar playing, and punk yelling Rotten would be proud of. Brutal and uncompromising. The songs crackle and fizz […]

Scuzzy Edinburgh rockers Edinburgh School For The Deaf return to Limbo for the third time, headlining this special showcase night for fledgling Scottish label Strange Fish with support from fellow Limbo alumni Plastic Animals, now expanded to a five-piece and gathering momentum as an alt. rock combo, and Glasgow-based newcomers Battery Face, who have been […]

The Limbo review of this event slipped through the net as chief Limbo scribe/reviewer Rob was away.  Nonetheless, it was a great gig.  ESFTD wowed again, Blank Canvas showed that they’re fast becoming an Edinburgh force to be reckoned with and Chris Devotion and his band comfortably provided a very finely-tuned, Ramones-style filling in the […]

It’s the return of the awe-inspiring Edinburgh School For The Deaf, who blew Limbo away with an incredible set in October. Support comes from riotous Glasgow newcomers Chris Devotion & The Expectations (‘Scotland’s most exciting new band’, The Daily Record) plus sizzling Edinburgh newcomers Blank Canvas, who return to Limbo for the second time in seven […]

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 […]

  Edinburgh School For The Deaf were formed in 2010.  Huddled amongst their are ranks are a cadre of Scottish, English and Polish acolytes of the transformative power of distortion and noise.  Their debut album `New Youth Bible` was recorded with Jamie Grier at the legendary Green Door studios in Glasgow and was released in early 2011 on Bubblegum records. […]

Limbo was so impressed by Birdhead‘s club debut supporting Isa And The Filthy Tongues in June, they’ve been invited back as headliners!  They return with Edinburgh School For The Deaf (formerly Deserters Deserve Death) and newcomers Plastic Animals in support, guaranteeing a proper riot of guitar squall, feedback and electronic anger for all noiseniks. It’s another belter of […]