Edinburgh various venues

22nd – 24th October, 7pm/3pm/2pm

www.edinburghpopfest.co.uk

Friday – Wee Red Bar at Edinburgh Art College Doors at 7pm   £7
Saturday – The GRV – Doors at 3pm   £12
Sunday – The Lot in the Grassmarket. Doors at 2pm (early finish at 7pm)    £7

Weekend Pass  £25.00

There is a £1 booking fee for day tickets and £2 for the weekend pass

Over 18s only

Friday 22 October @ The Wee Red Bar / 7:15 10:30, doors at 7pm / DJ’s til 3am

Ballboy
Withered Hand
The Leg
Randolph’s Leap

Saturday 23rd October

Suburban Kids With Biblical Names
The Just Joans
Kid Canaveral
Internet Forever
Pocketbooks
Be Like Pablo
Red Shoe Diaries
plus very special guests to open the day – Bearsuit!
(more band tbc)

**First band on stage 3.20pm**

Sunday 24th October

Darren Hayman
Bobby McGees
Bobby Baby (Swe)
Eagleowl
Gordon McIntyre (ballboy acoustic)

First band on stage 2.30pm

WE STRONGLY ADVISE YOU BUY YOUR TICKETS IN PLENTY OF TIME TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT. AS WITH THE SOLD OUT RETREAT FESTIVAL THIS WEEKEND MANY LEFT IT TO THE LAST MINUTE AND NOT EVERYBODY WAS ABLE TO GET A TICKET.

Thanks again to both festivals for their support.

No, not really, just wanted your attention. We were asked to supply our top ten for last Sundays Observer, here it is in full…. shock entry at number one for Meursault!

Meursault

All Creatures Will Make Merry

Following the critical acclaim of the band’s debut album, Pissing on Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues, Local Edinburgh band have recorded All Creatures Will Make Merry in the winter of 2009

Songwriter, vocalist and guitarist Neil Pennycook states that “playing with a full live band helped shape this record considerably,” and praised the contributions of both Phillip Quirie and Pete Harvey: “[they] opened up a huge range of possibilities with these songs. The themes and motivation behind All Creatures Will Make Merry come from completely different place than those on Pissing on Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues. I feel a certain duty to myself in terms of my own expectations for this album, other than that I couldn’t imagine making an album to someone else’s supposed criteria, that is my idea of hell.”

MORE INFO / BUY IT HERE

The last exciting installment was three EPs from the Excellent Burnt Island (still available here) The Boy Who Trapped the Sun from those loveley guys at Chess Club (sold out on CD but we do have the ltd 10″ available here) and an exclusive re-press of the now sold out Thomas Western.

You can still join any time.

£130 for 12 installments

£65 for 6 installments

Pearl and the Puppets to play an instore at Avalanche Records on the 6th of May at 5pm

Three years ago Pearl was just another music-loving shopgirl (Woolworths) and student (primary school teacher). She was classically trained (on woodwind) and could bash out a tune (on piano). But she’d never so much as picked up a guitar. Then, aged 19, she bought a guitar. She taught herself how to play it and quickly wrote some songs. Within a matter of months she’d set up a myspace and posted four demos. Within a week, the first record label contacted her.

Pearl spent much of 2009 developing herself: she gigged, she wrote, she gigged some more. Having recruited a band and taken the name Pearl and the Puppets, and now in 2010 releases her first EP, Because I Do on 10th May. Her music draws influence from the likes of Regina Spektor and Feist, but also from every day observations about life and her effervescent melodies have seen her music already find its way onto advert soundtracks all over the world, even if you may not have heard of her just yet.

Right now Pearl and the Puppets are finishing off their debut album, due for release later in 2010.

SINGLE – BECAUSE I DO AVAILABLE HERE FOR £2.99