Limbo with special guests Withered Hand + Pictish Trail + John Egdell + Les Enfant Bastard
Limbo sets out to bring you consistently great live music in a well produced environment.
Renegade stars of the Edinburgh live scene in 2009, Withered Hand make their 2010 Edinburgh debut at Limbo, having first graced the club’s stage last February when they were just beginning to generate a small buzz among those in the know. Singer-songwriter Dan had the whole club under his spell that night and has consequently drawn everyone else who has caught his live set into his rapidly swelling fanbase, with the local buzz now building to a national roar, as Withered Hand takes the rest of the UK and (soon) Europe by storm. If you’re a fan of Withererd Hand, you know you don’t want to miss this show and if you’ve not seen them yet, be sure to get a ticket as it will be a very hot one! Fife’s glorious Pictish Trail (Fence Records) comes south to make his Limbo debut with a solo show, in support, alongside Les Enfant Bastard. Yes, another amazing line-up of great live music at Limbo!
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More info at: http://black-spring.com/limbo/
After playing in various bands throughout his teens, guitarist and artist Dan Willson was a principal member of four-piece Edinburgh indie band Barrichello from their inception in 1999. Barrichello released three EPs, the first self-released and the following two on Edinburgh label SL Records. The band enjoyed a measure of success, touring Scotland and the UK including a 10 date UK tour, culminating in a London show with fellow Edinburgh band Ballboy. They were awarded single of the week in The List and the last two EPs received radio play across Scotland and also on BBC Radio 1's John Peel show. The band split amicably in 2002 citing musical differences.In 2003, Dan teamed up with childhood friend Neil Sylvester and Caroline Evans to form art-rock outfit Peanut, where Dan was able began to give his own idiosyncratic voice free reign through his song writing and accompanying drawings. They build up a loyal live following in Edinburgh, across Scotland and in London and fostered connections with bands from the New York 'anti-folk' scene, being asked to support Schwervon! and Major Matt Mason USA on live dates in Scotland. Peanut shared bills with, amongst others, The Rezillos, Uncle John and Whitelock and Hawk and a Hacksaw and played the London Antifolk Summer Festival in Islington in August 2005. Both Neil and Caroline’s external commitments and the arrival of Dan’s first child meant the band were unable to record more than demos for a projected album and they eventually went on hiatus in 2005.
..the ghosts invoked are those of the Yummy Fur – spiky angular guitar work, with some grinding Fall-like guitar lines and wobbly vocals and shouty choruses, often bassless and augmented by tinpot drumming. A triumph of invention over ability. live review of Peanut, Is This Music? Magazine June 2005
Continuing to draw strength from the example of the DIY music community in New York, Dan continued working on solo material after Peanut’s demise and in 2006 debuted this more introverted and increasingly autobiographical material as a solo singer/songwriter, under the stagename Withered Hand. He quickly became a sought-after solo performer and part of a resurgence in loosely folk-based contemporary pop music in Scotland, playing shows with the likes of Frightened Rabbit, Found, Woodpigeon (Canada) and Eagleowl, as well as touring Sweden with Swedish musician Sebastian Fors. As his live set developed he began to recruit musician friends to collaborate on and embellish songs, meaning a Withered Hand performance or recording can often incorporate such luminaries of the Edinburgh alternative music scene as Neil Pennycook and Chris Bryant (Meursault), acclaimed Edinburgh drummer Alun Thomas (St Judes Infirmary, Paul Vickers and The Leg, Ballboy), cellist Hannah Shepherd, Bart Owl (Eagleowl, The Second Hand Marching Band and others) and folk singer Jo Foster (Fence Collective).
More info at http://slrecords.net/witheredhand/biog.php
Fife’s glorious PICTISH TRAIL (Fence Records) comes south to spread the buzz!
'Johnny Lynch, the one man force behind the Pictish Trail, has spent much of the last few years helping friends and fellow Fence members, like Kenny Anderson (aka King Creosote) and James Yorkston get their careers off the ground. Finally recording an album in his basement he reveals himself as a powerful songwriter in his own right. 4 STARS ****' (Will Hodgkinson, MOJO)
More info at http://www.myspace.com/pictishtrail
More info at http://www.fencerecords.com/artists/the-pictish-trail/
"gloriously lo-fi lullabies" NME
More info at http://www.myspace.com/johnegdell
'Cameron Watt (Les Enfant Bastard) should be designated a national treasure. Even in a country so ludicrously teaming with musical talent, Watt's single-minded devotion to the DIY lo-fi aesthetic should earn him a knighthood' (The Skinny)
"snobby art school jazz p***" NME
More info at http://www.slrecords.net/enfantbastard/
More info at http://www.myspace.com/cammyjjnr
From 7.30pm in The Ballroom. Advance tickets £8 stbf available from Credit card hotline on 08444 155 221, Avalanche Records, Ripping Records, Tickets Scotland (Edinburgh). Buy online here.
