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The Owsley Sunshine

The Swamp (01/04/2006)

This one can be filed under the great gig, small crowd category. Reduced to a 5 piece through keyboard player and vocalist Nic Denholm’s illness, the Owsleys carry on regardless. The impact of his absence means that they are unable to deliver a set as close to their recordings as they would like



Station: Project

King Tuts (01/04/2006)

A large number of souls have abandoned the Sunday sunshine for the dark, sweating interior of King Tuts for White Rose Movement openers Station:Project. Purveyors of vigorous, muscular rock, they swagger with a violent air through their set, captivating the crowd with a driven, evocative cacophony of electro-influenced sounds and melody



The Leg

Goulag (01/04/2006)

Theologians of ancient Christianity now agree that the devil had the best tunes. The fallen angel’s duties according to recent thinking would have included sound-tracking a soul’s utopian stay in his Father’s kingdom. If The Leg (formerly of this parish under the nomenclature of Desc) were one of those bands booked before his fateful tumble [...]



The Walkmen / Roland Shanks / Actress Hands

ABC2 (01/04/2006)

Arriving at the rather unusually laid out ABC2, I have to admit that I really did not care for an appetiser of a support act, such was my excitement at seeing The Walkmen at long last. However, I am not one for shunning a band and goin to a bar across the road so I [...]



Ten Storeys High / Kiddo / Action Group / Callel

Sopectrum @ Queen'sHall (01/04/2006)

This year marks the fourth outing for Edinburgh`s Spectrum Festival, and with an outstanding wealth of exciting new talent around it promises to be noteworthy from the start. Providing food, drink, a handful of stalls, and a whole hall full of exciting new bands, the festival was set up to celebrate all that`s great about [...]