By marty, on March 27th, 2010%
Things are starting to heat up again. We are playing in The Voodoo Rooms this Wednesday 31st March around 9.30pm. We are headlining a great bill of acts as a fund raiser for Edinburgh’s second best live music night ‘Out of the Bedroom’. ( Sorry guys but my heart belongs to ‘Acoustic Edinburgh’ – . . . → Read More: Wednesday, Holland in May and The Insider
By marty, on March 5th, 2010%
My name’s Marty and I’m a recovering blogger. It’s been nearly six months since my last post…
So… how have you been? Very excited to be playing in Glasgow tonight for the first time in a long while. The kicker is, we’re playing twice, sort of. The Moose and I are singing backing vocals for legendary . . . → Read More: Gecko 3 in Glasgow – twice in one night!
By marty, on October 27th, 2009%
Gecko 3 are terrified to announce we will be onstage this Saturday (31st) 9-9.45pm as part of the Trouble Live ‘Party for the Undead’ in the Voodoo Rooms, West Register Street, Edinburgh. (0131 556 7060) www.thevoodoorooms.com
The Halloween vault-doors will be open at 8pm with a set from Melvitronica, and after a spine-tingling . . . → Read More: Gecko 3 in Trouble on Halloween
By marty, on September 14th, 2009%
Had a great time speaking at the Edinburgh Schools Creative Writing workshop – along with Douglas Kay (.com) on Thursday. I was talking about and performing a couple of songs; so in case you are interested, here are the lyrics:
Donkeys and Elephants
Who the hell would want to be the President
. . . → Read More: Songwriting Workshop
By marty, on September 14th, 2009%
Heading off this weekend to headline the music festival at Le Brevedent (near Lisieux) in Normandy. We played a gig in the chateau there last year but couldn’t take up the invitation to return for the September Festival due to gigging commitments. This year, however, we’re right there! France, Gecko 3 and Calvados – what . . . → Read More: Le Brevedent
By marty, on April 14th, 2009%
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.
Spread the word! Hide . . . → Read More: Knockengorroch-a-go-go
By marty, on April 7th, 2009%
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 . . . → Read More: Kelburn Garden Party
By marty, on March 26th, 2009%
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 . . . → Read More: Plans afoot for the summer
By marty, on January 2nd, 2009%
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 . . . → Read More: Saturday Night Fish Fry
By marty, on November 27th, 2008%
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 . . . → Read More: Novelty Christmas Toilet Paper