Limbo

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 [...]

Delta Mainline are a band who have been quietly going about making a name for themselves in Edinburgh over the last few years and are currently in the process of recording their debut album.  Their performance at Limbo took everyone to a very special, psychedelic place, while newcomers Pet and The Machine Room provided note-worthy [...]

Friday 28th January 2011 saw The Oates Field, Eagleowl and Gummi Bako play the first Limbo of 2011. Everybody stuck around until kicking out time, loads more people turned up to get down after the bands had finished and it was generally a great night! Gummi Bako go on first and the room is already [...]

The last one saw an incendiary Limbo debut by The Oates Field, another Limbo debut by brassy, west-coast outfit How To Swim and, of course, headliners Over The Wall brandishing new album Treacherous to a very warm welcome indeed. First on, The Oates Field’s lead singer/guitarist and brains Alan Oates open with an acoustic cover [...]