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It’s the weekend so grab your tent and sunglasses and head to Kelburn Castle (home of the Graffiti Project) for Scotland’s newest and best value music festival! We’re on the Village Stage at 8.15pm on Saturday night so get there good and early. Tickets available at the gates!
Also we’re playing tonight in Dunfermline at Monty’s. See you soon! We’ve just had our appearance at this year’s Knockengorroch World Ceilidh confirmed for the Saturday (May 23rd) so clearly we’re pretty excited about that. You can get more details and buy tickets from www.knockengorroch.org.uk When we know our stage time we’ll pass it on here.
Just a quick update: as predicited, the official website is now functioning: http://www.kelburngardenparty.com It’s the only place you can get yourself one of the limited number of early bird tickets. It has a great line up, and the icing on the castle-shaped cake is that we will be playing at 3.30pm on Saturday afternoon, just ahead of James Yorkston and the Athletes. Lazy June afternoon and a little groove to go with your beer…? Ah, the summer, even the thought makes you forget the months of darkness and cold and wind and misery and… okay, maybe not forget, but certainly set to one side for a moment. We’re excited to announce that we’re playing the Kelburn Garden Party this June (19th-21st). This is a new festival but we’ve played over there on many occasions in the past and always had a blast. Last year’s festival had to be cancelled due to a last minute policing demand but this year looks set to go ahead. The Kelburn Garden Party has a fantastic line up and with such a brilliant venue looks set to be a great weekend. No doubt the formal website will be up and running soon, but in the meantime, you can secure early bird tickets at: http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/kelburngardenparty/2009/ We are also really hopeful of sorting out a spot at the Knockengorroch World Ceilidh www.knockengorroch.org.uk but we’re a little tight for time that weekend (May 22-25)due to other commitments so we’ll keep you posted. In other news the Moose is nearly home after his jaunt round Australia so we hope to get cracking on that elusive album for the summer. We are also currently organising a tour in Northern France for mid September, but more on that when we have confirmations. Happy New Year! Thanks to everyone who brought in the New Year with us at the Departure Lounge – it was a great night. I particularly enjoyed the hundreds of people bawling out the words and jumping around manically to the ska choruses at the end of Auld Lang Syne. It was a great way to start off the year of Rabbie Burn’s 250th birthday. It’s almost as if everyone had been drinking heavily… Another year comes to a close and what better way to celebrate the New Year than partying with Gecko 3?  Departure Lounge This will be an incredible line-up – click the flyer for more details. Orkestra Del Sol There may still be tickets if you run! Have a great Hogmanay whereever you end up! If you want to milk the last drops of the weekend, join us at The Scottish Hobo Society tonight in The Bongo Club. Doors at 11pm, £3 entry. Regular club night presented by Gamma Ray and DJ Set from Vic Galloway. 2 Bands on stage after midnight! (we’re on second)  Gamma Ray - photo by www.johnneed.co.uk I realise that the heading alone is sufficient, really, but as I always say, why use four words when fifty will do? The concept of this has disturbed me since I was forced to buy some because that was all that the shop had left. In what parallel realm do the designers of that product exist where wiping your backside on a child’s drawing of a snowman and a pine tree makes you feel more festive? I mean, quite aside from the fact that our cave-dwelling ancestors knew not to wipe with the branches of a %8&+$! pine tree, seeing the childish doodling on each perforated sheet has reduced the subsequent action performed to some kind of moral equivalence with stealing the bobble-hat of a four year old out playing in the snow and using the pom-pom instead! Novelty Christmas Toilet paper! Sometimes I worry about people… Wow. Those of you who made it to the gig last night will know what I’m talking about. Thanks to Ewan of the Voodoo Rooms for booking us and to Tom for producing one of the best onstage sound balances we’ve had in a wee while. We had a ball in our support slot and that was really enjoyable but, my God, what a band the Five Corners are! Effortlessly cool grooves and soaring horns! (’Cool cries from the high blue’, as Virginia Woolf might have said, had she been into a bit of jazz.) The evening was a real joy. Nice guys, too. No doubt Hugh will want to post on this, once he stops dribbling, so I’ll leave it at that.  Roy, Mr. Wibble, Bullwinkle, Dave and Dennis - live at the Voodoo Rooms... ‘The Drawing Room Sessions’ – a fitting name considering the surroundings. Thanks to everyone at the Graffiti Project (Kelburn Castle) for such a wonderful evening of music and food. I tried my best not to drop a stick during the proceedings so as not to give Moose the excuse to look at me with ‘where’s the beat’ in his eyes.
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