Category Archives: Gecko 3 news

Happy New Year! Marty raided his jumper collection for our Christmas photo.  This was taken at our highland retreat where we’ve finished the basic recording for this years’ releases. We’re now beavering away on them in the studio so new media on the way soon! Thanks to all those who dragged their hungover asses to […]

Finding it hard to refocus on Christmas after the week of recording up in the Highlands – well, I say a week, actually it ended up being a little under four days given a mystery illness which hit me (one evening) and then Moose (day and a half) and travel issues caused by the relentless wind and rain.  […]

Great gig last night.  The Quantic Soul Orchestra were a top band and very nice guys.  A special mention must go to the performance of their Hammond player: that man knows how to sell a solo! Spanky was a tremendous performer and watching her get the crowd singing and giving people who were talking (instead of singing) into […]

OK, now we’re getting excited – for tomorrow we support the incredible Quantic Soul Orchestra featuring the legendary Spanky Wilson Promoting their latest release I’m Thankful, these guys have been touring relentlessly for the last 18 months and we’re chuffed to be joining them on the Edinburgh leg of their tour. Joining us on stage […]

Very excited about the upcoming support slot for the Quantic Soul Orchestra on Thursday.  So excited that apparently I am living my life one month out of synch with the rest of the world: sorry for saying that the gig was on Thursday 7th November in my last mailout - it should of course have read Thursday 7th […]

Wow! Or should I say ‘Bof!’  What a weekend!  On Saturday night we played in Bar L’Olympic (Rue Simart) on the fringes of Montmartre and we had a fantastic time.  The owners of the bar were leading the dancing with the customers joining in and small crowds pressing their faces to the glass like kids […]

A late addition to the Gecko 3 gigging programme saw the trio playing an emergency fill-in spot alongside the marvellous ‘Team Salt’ at Heriot Watt when ‘Found’ couldn’t make it.  A very enjoyable gig and nice to see some returning faces from our last trip out there.  We also very much enjoyed ripping it up acoustically at […]

September was rounded off by a return ‘dahrn sarf’ to the University of Herts to take part in their Fresher’s Ball alongside the Fresh Prince and the Cuban Brothers. After a brief break so our bass player could ‘find himself’ on Rhodes (that happened to me once, but the car swerved) we enjoyed a maiden […]

Moose Welcome to the all new Gecko 3 blog : ) This page will replace our old news page & hopefully make it easier for us to keep you up to date. Sheesh – even Hugh may visit the site now and again.

After a fantastic weekend in the highlands (gig in the Clachaig) followed by a night in the northwest for Marty’s birthday (25 again apparently) we returned refreshed for a great night headlining the launch of the Acoustic Edinburgh Festival. A great line up of acts including our pals Floozie Soo (who poached Hugh on drums […]