It’s that time of year again and we’ve got a couple of stunning gigs during the Edinburgh Fringe this year.
First up on Tuesday 4th we’re proud to be headlining the opening night of the prestigious Acoustic Edinburgh Festival. This will be an acoustic set and joining us on er, electric piano, will be Jean-Baptiste Richon.
This is undoubtedly the best value music night on the Fringe – 3 hours of stunning acoustic music in a lovely intimate atmosphere for only £5!

Get tickets at the Fringe Box Office or just turn up and you may be lucky enough to get the last few tickets at the door!

Also for you late birds we return to The Jazz Bar for some late night grooves 3am until 5am on Friday night (Aug 7th).

Hope to see you at one or both of these!

P.S. The keen-eyed among you will have spotted that our very own Hugh Martin is the face of the Acoustic Edinburgh Festival flyers this year!

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.

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.

Another year comes to a close and what better way to celebrate the New Year than partying with Gecko 3?
We’re kicking off the 1st second of 2009 with a set at Edinburgh’s coolest club Departure Lounge.

Departure Lounge

This will be an incredible line-up – click the flyer for more details.
We’re on stage at midnight. Also on this amazing bill are:

Orkestra Del Sol
Mungo’s Hi-Fi Soundsystem
MC Soom T
Dom Servini
Astroboy & Mr Zimbabwe

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

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 positive hits just keep on coming.  How many hits? ‘More hits than Barry Bonds playing slow pitch in the disabled seniors league,’ as Abdominal would put it.  Gecko 3 are delighted to announce that we will be playing the midnight set at the Departure Lounge Hogmanay party.  The event also features live sets from Orkestra del Sol and Mungo’s HiFi plus DJ Astroboy and others. 

So, it seems that our big November support slot has now been confirmed!  We’re supporting The Five Corners Quintet (www.thefivecornersquintet.com) on Sunday November 16th, 8pm, in the Voodoo Rooms.  Since this is also the Moose’s birthday, and we may get a chance to play some of the jazzier numbers (which means my new guitar ‘Mr Wibble’ can make an outing and Hugh’s new cymbal – more of a tong than a ting – can be played), plus it’s one of Hugh’s favourite bands… you’d be a hard hearted individual not to be excited!

And we’re supporting Nizlopi (www.nizlopi.com) this Tuesday evening in Caberet Voltaire at 7pm!  Damn! 

I don’t think I’ve ever used so many exclamation marks in one post!   …!

Further to Moose’s post on Aug 28th about a wee spot we did in 80 Queen Street, we will be playing two sets from 11pm to 1am in 80 Queen Street on Saturday 25th October.  The idea is that we will get one or two fellow musicians and members of Organogel (in fact, we may be billed as Organogel) to sit in so we can play a mixture of Gecko 3 favourites and some ‘Gel instrumental 70s groove jazz (if that seems a bit obscure, think 70s porn theme tracks… er, that someone may have told you about).   You might even see a rare outing for the electric bass! It should be a great night in a very intimate little venue.