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Friday, July 14, 2023

RITUAL KING, LEGENDS, EDINBURGH, DECEMBER 3 2022

In an odd twist of fate, this archive post features the first ever gig of a band whose most recent gig was featured in the previous post. If that makes sense.

LINE-UP:

OBSIDIAN SAND: Proggy post-something new kids.

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/3znzftS9UIo https://www.facebook.com/ObsidianSand

ACIDSAURUS BONG: The aforementioned first gig from local dinosaurian swamp-beasts. Have they, you ask, evolved at all in the last seven months? Well...no.

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/31hnhiqlX-A https://www.facebook.com/acidsaurusbong

EARL OF HELL: If you've been paying attention you should know who these turbo-charged rock'n'rollers are by now.

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/9Fgoi05oxEs https://www.facebook.com/earlofhell

RITUAL KING: Tonight's touring headliners, bluesy psych/stoners from Manchester.

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/CgNWGuutsA0 https://www.facebook.com/ritualking

Saturday, July 8, 2023

PART CHIMP, MASH HOUSE, EDINBURGH, NOVEMBER 13 2022

Another one of those bands that I'd been wanting to see for ages, but never managed to be in the right place at the right time. However, things aligned at last, and I was able to, finally, experience the ear-destroying volume of PART CHIMP at close quarters in Edinburgh.

Line-up:

SAWYER: Indie noise veterans from Fife, playing their first gig in ages, and doing a fine job of it. One of them - the guitarist with the hair - is now a Part Chimp. As you shall see.

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/XNsiDAnMGYc They're far too cool for Facebook, so here's their Wikipedia entry instead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawyer_(band)

PART CHIMP: Describe themselves as an 'English rock band'. Well, yes. They're (mostly) English and they are a band and they play rock, so they're not wrong. But that description doesn't really tell the full story. They play a BRUTALLY LOUD kind of indie/noise rock and even without a bass player, as they are tonight, they leave my ears ruined for days afterwards. This is, perhaps, the first time I regret not wearing earplugs. Still, no lasting damage...

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/Lt5BkGib3qA https://www.facebook.com/partchimpofficial

Sunday, July 2, 2023

SAVING GRACE (featuring ROBERT PLANT and SUZI DIAN), QUEEN'S HALL, EDINBURGH, NOVEMBER 5 2022

Bit of an odd post, this, because there are no photographs and not even a proper video. It does, however, include the full set (minus the encore) from SAVING GRACE, who are essentially a bunch of musicians who play covers in a pub. One of those musicians is, however, the legendary ROBERT PLANT, who you my have heard of. Sometimes they go out on tour.

So, here they are, accompanied by singer SUZI DIAN (https://www.facebook.com/SuziDianMusic), playing a set of blues, country, folk and assorted Americana. And no Led Zeppelin.

Support was from RORY BUTLER, who played guitar and sang and was very nice. https://www.facebook.com/rorybutlerofficial

The lack of photographs is down to the venue, who have a very strict 'no cameras' rule. Which they DO enforce.The sound on the recording is decent, but does include a fair bit of audience noise, as you might expect from a recording taken at the back of the hall.

Anyway, here it is.

https://youtu.be/E9xSAGflTnE

Saturday, July 1, 2023

WOUNDED TOUCH, LEGENDS, EDINBURGH, OCTOBER 22 2022

This was Red Crust Promotions' 150th gig. The first was at Leith Depot and featured hardcore band SUNLIGHT'S BANE. Sunlight's Bane are no more, but ex-members formed a new band. That band is WOUNDED TOUCH.