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 when the world […]
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Le Brevedent
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 could […]
Knockengorroch-a-go-go
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.
Kelburn Garden Party
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 […]
Plans afoot for the summer
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 […]
Saturday Night Fish Fry
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 […]
Novelty Christmas Toilet Paper
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 […]
Five Corners Quintet
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 […]
Bond… Government Bond
Not that it’s relevant to anything, but I went to see ‘Quantum of Solace’ this week. I was just thinking that it’s weird how every generation gets the Bond it deserves. Daniel Craig’s a great actor and is a good Bond, but the script can’t run to more than about twenty pages at the outside. Instead, what we […]
Gecko3 Nizlopi support on youtube
I’ll keep this short and sweet because if I write much more I’m likely to break into full rant, given that some kind people nicked about 55 massive slate floor tiles from outside my door last night. Thanks guys. Anyway, if you are interested, there is a (wobbly) video clip from our support slot for Nizlopi up on youtube: […]