Ex GIRLS AGAINST BOYS chap going solo in Edinburgh. Sold out gig, which means it's going to be hot.
Line-up:
MAIN PRIMATE: Local post-punk quartet, featuring grizzled veterans of many, many bands. Bassman Robert Fairfoull did his back in the other day doing something really hard, like standing up, so he may be a little stiff tonight. We shall see.
Doesn't seem to hold him back. to be fair.
PILOTCAN: Veteran shoe-gazey indie/post-punk slackers, back out again after losing founder member Joe Herbert to cancer last December. This could be emotional.
Appearing tonight with, I think, a new drummer, a cellist, and backing singer EFFIE. We get a mix of old stuff, recent stuff and brand new stuff. What do they sound like, you ask? A bit of Brit-pop, a bit of Dinosaur Jr, a bit of Talking Heads, a bit of Beatles. Maybe.
SCOTT McCLOUD: I know nothing of Mr. McCloud, other that that he was in GIRLS AGAINST BOYS, about whom I know equally little.(Seems they were a New York based post-hardcore unit. Quite popular)
So, here he is. Doing a bunch of his own songs, acoustic versions of GVSB songs, and a couple of covers. Have to say, old punk songs done on acoustic guitar are... 'interesting'. I particularly like The Stooges' 'Search and Destroy'. There's a fair bit of chat about the old days in GVSB, his childhood, his life in Vienna, and his girlfriend thinking, oddly, that it would have been cool if he'd have died in 1996.
