QUIET THE ART, WEE RED BAR, EDINBURGH, SEPTEMBER 14 2024

Hi there! Remember me? I know, it's been a while, but I'm back now. Easing back gently with a low-key show at the Wee Red, familiar faces all round.

Venue: WEE RED BAR

LINE-UP:

BOARDGAME: Improv ambient electronica duo. Been a couple of months since I saw them last, with QUIET, THE ART in SUMMERHALL. They haven't changed significantly  - still do their bleepy bloopy thing in the dark, in front of a screen showing trippy swirly stuff. It's pleasantly hypnotic, but nigh on impossible to photograph. Also, the audience talk loudly throughout and ruin any chance of a video so you'll just have to imagine it.

IDIOGRAM: Instrumental post-rock/prog loveliness. Not sure how many gigs Idiogram have played - I think this might be just their third since they began in 2019, ALL of which I have attended. It's been a long time since their last, with Covid, family stuff, etc, but they're back now, promoting a new single,  and will surely be playing many, many more gigs in the near future. Yes. (Actually, they WILL be back soon for the proper album release gig)

Thanks to Lesley and the rest of the Idiograms for the lovely t-shirt.

VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/gJWWh-4wI5Y   https://www.facebook.com/idiogram.band

QUIET, THE ART: Shoe-gazey post-rock duo, mostly instrumental with an occasionally singing drummer. It's good to get another chance to see them so soon after the previous gig, given the camera issues I had last time. 

VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/nlVl_Q05wuo   https://www.facebook.com/quiettheart

FUTURE GET DOWN, SUMMERHALL OLD LAB, EDINBURGH, JULY 5 2024

An unexpected gig, but not unwelcome. It's Friday 5th July and the Tories have been routed at the general election. TheFudlip has been active for about 13 years, so this is the VERY FIRST gig I am covering under a non-Tory government, and I am happy. How long that'll last remains to be seen.

Anyway, I am invited along to make a video for the QUIET, THE ART, the only band tonight I have seen before, in a venue I've never been in before and which might not exist much longer.

VENUE: THE OLD LAB, SUMMERHALL, EDINBURGH

Line-up:

BOARDGAME : Local duo, making chilled ambient electronica at a table covered in knobs and things with wires. Nice swirly visuals to complete the experience. 

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/fj_mJuzGVTw

QUIET, THE ART: The lads I'm here to see, another duo, doing a lovely, mostly instrumental post-rock/indie kind of thing, for fans of Mogwai/Aereogramme/Twilight Sad. There aren't any pics here, because I'm recording the full set and I can only hold one camera at a time. Sadly, however, things don't go according to plan when my camera has a 'moment' and stops working halfway through the third song, and then fails to save anything prior to that. I start it up again, but I only get the last 20-odd minutes of the set. The lads are nice about it, but I'm annoyed. They're back in September, so I shall try again. In the meantime, here's a song from the stuff I DID manage to save.

VIDEO:    https://youtu.be/C9Lcpa2X__o      https://www.facebook.com/quiettheart

FUTURE GET DOWN: An entire festival line-up in one band. They're psych, kraut rock, desert rock, post-punk, noise and groovy pop, sometimes all together at once. I know nothing about them, so I check out their Bandcamp page afterwards and, take my word for it, they go much harder live. Great stuff.

Apparently, they lost some momentum as a band when Covid hit and haven't done much recently. Hopefully, this gig will give them a boost and they'll be back for more soon.

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/sB89aRi9X_I   https://www.facebook.com/futuregetdown

So, the venue. Summerhall in Edinburgh is a multi-venue mixed arts hub, the former Dick vet school, and is currently up for sale. If/when it sells, it will probably be turned into another hotel, or student flats, and a valuable local asset will be lost. The Old Lab is an excellent small space and one I will miss after it's gone. I'll be back there in October, but it's future is currently uncertain.

QUIET, THE ART, WEE RED BAR, EDINBURGH, DECEMBER 2022

Don't be confused by that comma. The band's name is actually QUIET, THE ART. 

Last archive gig from 2022, and only another 4 to go from 2023 before things become more complicated. As I may have mentioned previously, my records prior to Feb 2019 are no longer accessible, so I'll have to start downloading my own photographs from Facebook for any further archive posts. Which is something of a chore. Anyway...

Line-up:

SANNA: 'Mild mannered pop abstractionists' Sometimes there's four of them, but not this time.

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/SAXx4pWADtI   https://www.facebook.com/sannaedinburgh

QUIET, THE ART: Post-shoegaze duo from Edinburgh. Currently writing new material. Which is nice.

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/UkrIK4PCG7c   https://www.facebook.com/quiettheart