Limbo 052 - Thursday 27th November 2008
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Having staged over 100 of the best acts on the circuit over the course of the last twelve months, Limbo reaches its first major milestone with a first birthday party to rival anything happening anywhere on the UK live music and club scene right now.
Callel are a conventional, young Edinburgh quartet with a very bright future, who sing beautifully crafted songs, often in equally beautiful close harmony, while playing their instruments with the greatest of ease. All the musicians in this band really are something to behold, so neatly do they fit together, making it all look like child's play. We'll be watching Callel mature with keen interest and expect to see them playing bigger stages (not to mention our own, again) very soon.
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Limbo goes FOLK, with another twist of Americana, as the soon-to-be-gargantuan Sparrow And The Workshop return, supporting Perth's best-kept secret, Pumajaw (recent discoveries for us but no novices to live music and performance by any stretch), alongside the wondrous Eagleowl - all very original, very special and very good. It's another incredible Limbo line-up and all in a beautifully harmonious folky/acoustic/lyrical vein.
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Also coming up at Limbo:
Pumajaw,
Sparrow & The Workshop,
Eaglewowl,
Come on Gang!,
Kid Canaveral,
Super Adventure Club
plus loads of other buzzing brand new acts.
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DEAD BOY ROBOTICS are one of the most exciting acts to have emerged in Edinburgh in the last twelve months. Undoubtedly bound for a bright, sparkly future, they mix the electronic/dance style of acts such as Nathan Fake and James Holden (Border Community) with the avant-punk aesthetic of Liars and sound like no one else in Scotland, let alone the UK, right now. Alongside Micachu, A-lix and Ex Lion Tamer, they will bring an undeniable ENERGY to the Limbo first birthday party and ensure the people in the room don't stop spinning until the records do, at the very end of the night.
EX LION TAMER is fresh, polished and more pop than almost anything else in Edinburgh right now. He sounds a bit like Vector Lovers and Daft Punk plus (early) Eighties electro pop such as Gina X, Dominatrix, Chris And Cosey* etc, what with all the synthetic vocals/vocoders and child-like synth melodies. And then he actually hails bands such as Yazoo and Erasure, Madonna, Whitney Houston and Cyndi Lauper on his myspace. At last, an Edinburgh act unashamed to wear his gay pop influences on his sleeve! And Ex Lion Tamer really is that POP too. He also likes odd-looking pedigree dogs. We can't wait.
Over The Wall are Glaswegian duo Gav and Ben, who trash just about everything that is formulaic and dull about being in a band and look like they are having the time of their lives in the process. Using a laptop, some classic synths, a trumpet and their voices to great effect, they sing original lyrics that belie a child-like naivety (keyboards that 'go to keyboard heaven'?!) with a huge sense of fun and bucket-loads of character pervading the performance. There's nothing artificial or jaded about these guys. Both exhibit a rare sparkle, joie de vivre and all-round great sense of humour, on stage as well as off, Ben at one moment pointing out to all the more obsessive collectors and completists in the room that 'Kim from Zoey van Goey also plays viola on an Over The Wall track (which is available from the merch stall at the back of the room on the band's new EP, by the way)' and Gav later joking that they're looking forward to embarking on their tour ('it's only three dates, but it's still a tour, ok?!'). We enjoyed their set so much we asked them to come back again for our birthday celebrations this week. Then we realised that that (namely five bands in hardly as many hours) would be just silly. Good luck to them with their new EP.
Considering that they actually individually hail from Canada, Ireland and England, it sounds like Zoey van Goey's Matt, Michael and Kim have been in Glasgow for some time, as their sound fits quite snugly into the Glaswegian indie-pop tradition, with their gentle, lovable songs, (more) close harmonies and jingly jangly, plinky plonky, synth laced music. And very accomplished song-smiths they are too, recalling Edinburgh's own Aberfeldy, not to mention other cute, instantly lovable indie-pop outfits such as Architecture In Helsinki (albeit with a much smaller cast). And what composite professionals they are, it really is hard to fault Zoey van Goey at all this evening (and who/why ever would want to do such a thing?), as they hastily and spontaneously re-structure their set to fit into an unexpectedly tight schedule. Playing for barely thirty minutes, with previous single Foxtrot Vandals an early highlight, and finishing with a quiet number, the loudest thing in the room at the end of their set is the unanimous reaction of the crowd. Good luck to Zoey van Goey with their new single, Sweethearts In Disguise, and we look forward to their next appearance at Limbo.
Pinkie Maclure and John Wills met in a recording studio in London in the late 90s. John was signed to Beggars Banquet in art noise outfit,’ Loop’ and was also making a name as a producer. Beggars asked John to record and jointly produce their new signing Pinkie Maclure for her solo album, ‘Favourite’. Having many musical ideas in common they became a songwriting team, producing five critically-acclaimed albums. ‘Curiosity Box’ is their second under the acronym ‘Pumajaw’. Combining Pinkie’s extraordinary voice with John’s looped and treated guitar, samples, concertina and hypnotic rhythms they have a unique and seductive sound which stretches from psychedelic pop through sultry folk songs to impassioned, spiritual laments. New album ‘Curiosity Box’ is released on Fire Records on September 21st and features Alasdair Roberts (Drag City) and James Yorkston (Domino). Pumajaw are known for their fiery, mesmerising live presence.
Sparrow and the Workshop are three people and have been going since about January 2008. Singer Jill O'Sullivan is from somewhere in the midwest of America, drummer Gregor Donaldson from somewhere in the midwest of Scotland and Nicholas Packer (bass/guitar) from southwest Wales. They are a bit like a cross between Holly Golightly and Bonnie Prince Billy, what with the mid-western US accent of Jill, the very fetching, large moustache and accompanying hillbilly style of Gregor, plus Nick's occasional slide 'geetar'. What a captivating front-woman, though. Last time they played Limbo, Jill faced Nick rather than the crowd, addressing the latter between songs without turning to face the audience head on, instead hiding coyly behind her fringe with occasional sideways glances at the screen. And what great banter, too. The band turned up with amazing visuals that they'd rapidly put together, 'I hope y'all like the visuals,' she drawled. 'I can assure you the boys spent an awful lot of time making them.' Later, a ballerina pirouetted mid-frame and Jill claimed, 'I can dance like that too, you know, I just don't feel like doing so right now...' Everyone in the room fell under her spell and the band's songs and music were no less affecting.
'Eagleowl are a lo-fi post folk ensemble from Edinburgh, Scotland. eagleowl believe in doing things right, rather than doing things fast. A ragbag of influences and instruments (violin, ukulele, double bass, guitar, glockenspiel) — blending the traditional with the experimental — create a lush, emotional soundscape. They formed in 2005 and quickly became an integral part of the loose music collective ‘Fife Kills:’. Previous live shows have garnered rave reviews from the List (“the room was wrapped in a spine tingling cocoon, helped along by sweet and understated vocals”), Is This Music (“music of simple, yet wonderous beauty) and the Skinny (“so delicate… almost hypnotising”), as well as earning them a place in the List’s ‘Your New Favorite Bands’ article in Autumn 2006. The unusual sound has led to support slots with artists as varied as Chris Corsano, a Hawk and a Hacksaw, Field Music, James Blackshaw, the Low Lows, Adrian Crowley, Woodpigeon, Broken Records, De Rosa, Zoey Van Goey and the Twilight Sad — as well as playing Fence Records’ Homegame two years in a row. Eagleowl’s debut 5-track EP ‘For The Thoughts You Never Had’ is out now on fife kills: records and is available to order direct from the Eagleowl website. ' (band's biog)