Saturday 17th April 2010
Limbo with special guests Zoey Van Goey + Chris Bradley + X-Lion Tamer + DJ Ed Jupp + Black Spring DJs
Limbo sets out to bring you consistently great live music in a well produced environment.
Sparrow And The Workshop were originally scheduled to headline this show but they cancelled, having been offered the Idlewild tour. Fair enough. We hope to re-schedule and have them back at Limbo asap. However, we’re very happy to announce Zoey van Goey as the new headliner! ’The Goeys’ haven’t played Limbo in Edinburgh since November 2008, and, having released their debut album last May and then re-released (Chemikal Underground) it in October, they’ve progressed quite a bit. Expect more top quality 'indie folk' and catch them in an intimate space before they get too big! Support comes from Chris Bradley and X-Lion Tamer, both signed to Edinburgh’s 17 Seconds blog-label, the former bringing a soft, lilting Americana/folk edge and the latter a sublime Eighties electro-pop aesthetic that will melt your heart and caress your soul as effectively as it gets you feet tapping. 17 Seconds label boss and blogger extraordinaire, Ed Jupp, supports on the decks, alongside residents the Black Spring DJs. It’s another bumper package of consistently great live music at Limbo!
Please read on for more information. Click here for tickets & times info.
More info at: http://black-spring.com/limbo/
Taking their name from the notorious artist who hung out in Wall-era Berlin in the late Eighties (and broke German director Wim Wenders' heart), Zoey Van Goey are originally from Canada (Matt Brennan), Ireland (Michael John McCarthy) and England (Kim Moore) but coalesced around the verdant cloisters of Glasgow University in 2006. Debut album The Cage Was Unlocked All Along conjures up wide-eyed rites of passage, meshing the everyday with the fantastical; the optimism and adventure of youth, with the anxieties and pressures of the modern world... Bandits and buried treasure co-exist with tales of TEFL students teaching in Fukuyama; dark ruminations on the coming apocalypse alongside romantic kidnap ballads; a surreal journey that’s as melodically whimsical as it is structurally complex. With the fairytale element heightened further by Peter Diamond’s Hergé meets Henry Darger artwork, Zoey Van Goey’s debut album becomes a work of charming ambition loaded with full-blooded sing-along choruses, understated keyboards, close harmonies and irresistible melodies - all underpinned by various musical ephemera including vintage Super Mario sound effects.
The album was produced by Chemikal Underground’s Paul Savage (The Delgados, The Phantom Band), and self-released, garnering excellent reviews, before Glasgow indie label Chemikal Underground took them under their wing, re-releasing it internationally in October. The band have also contributed to extra-curricular projects including a musical/literary collaboration with Falkirk art-rockers Y'all Is Fantasy Island and novelist Alan Bissett called the ‘Super Puny Humans’, as well as composing and performing music (in collaboration with David Paul Jones) for the National Theatre of Scotland’s stage adaptation of the Takeshi Kitano film 'Dolls.'
"Anthemic, insightful indie-folk with wonderful sparkles of humour" Clash Magazine
"It's good to know a Glasgow-based band like Zoey Van Goey can flourish ... This is charming folk-pop" NME
"A sure-fire cert for me ... Very splendid." Marc Riley
Following the success of his 2008 debut Voices, Edinburgh-based singer songwriter and Aberfeldy guitarist Chris Bradley releases his 2nd solo album. Competing against over 10,000 musicians nationally, Chris shone through at the Area Finals of UK’s largest talent search, Live & Unsigned, making it through to the judges top five. He also reached the finals of the ISC competition out of 15,500 entries worldwide, for Best Music Video for ‘Two My Ears’. New album At The Outpost (released 29th March on 17 Seconds Records) was written, produced and performed entirely by Chris except for a guitar solo from Aberfeldy frontman Riley Briggs on the song ‘The Beatles’. As well as his own songs he has been successfully composing for TV and radio in Scotland.
See the video for ‘To My Ears’ and latest single ‘Waltzing’ (released in February accompanied by a brand new animation video by Dave Lemm): http://www.youtube.com/17secondsrecords
"A big talent in the making" The Sunday Times
"One of the strongest albums I've heard this year" Is This Music
"The construction of Bradley’s songs is their chief selling point, all lightly-picked guitars and Byrdsian melodies, but he’s also in possession of a fine James Taylor vocal that’s just shy of a falsetto" The List
More info at http://www.myspace.com/chrisbradleymusic
More info at http://chrisbradleymusic.com
Under the name of X-Lion Tamer, Edinburgh-based artist Tony Taylor likes to create pop songs described as 'the ending credits of low budget teen movies played on your mates Amiga'. Like a John Hughes film, if Erasure and Junior Boys had been asked to do the music.Signed to 17 Seconds records, X-Lion Tamer's profile has risen considerably over the past few months, supporting artists such Unicorn Kid and labelmates Aberfeldy, and receiving national radio play from the likes of Rob Da Bank and Vic Galloway on Radio One.
X-Lion Tamer's live shows give him the opportunity to play his trademark electro-pop while also twisting it in and out of shape, often improvising and occasionally dropping a huge guitar solo into the mix.
His Neon Hearts E.P. has been recently released to critical acclaim and is available to buy from Rough Trade in London, or Avalanche in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
More info at http://myspace.com/xliontamer
Behind the 17 Seconds blog and (now) record label, apart from being the brother of comedian Miles Jupp, Ed is an all-round (pop) music enthusiast, connoisseur and now A&R of great bands from across the spectrum. Expect a sizzling cross-section of a selection on the decks from him.
More info at http://17seconds.co.uk/blog
The Black Spring DJs, aka Hobbes (also one half of Trouble DJs, getintotrouble.com) and DC, are the duo behind Limbo. Since November 2007, Limbo has been staging the most exciting live acts on the circuit, working with breaking Scottish bands such as Frightened Rabbit, Broken Records, We Were Promised Jetpacks, XVECTORS, Zoey Van Goey, Punch & The Apostles, Fangs, Unicorn Kid, Sparrow & The Workshop, Dollskabeat, Meursault, Come On Gang! and Found, plus up-and-coming touring outfits such as Modernaire, Micachu And The Shapes, Marina And The Diamonds, The Chap, Colourmusic, S.C.U.M. and Joe Gideon & The Shark. The cream of the crop from the tail end of 2008's Limbo was compiled on a CD of top notch live recordings from the club, called Limbo Live Volume 1 (released April 2009).
As one half of the team behind Edinburgh's Radio 1 award-nominated Trouble club night, Hobbes has played everywhere from tiny sweat-boxes in Glasgow, Edinburgh and London to super-clubs in Shanghai and Beijing, Rob Da Bank's massive Big Top tent at Bestival (sharing the stage with The Human League, Santogold, Chromeo and The Breeders) to wee hot-spots in Warsaw, Sardinia, Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Derry, Zadar and Ghent. DC is the punk rocking yin to Hobbes's disco dancing yang and a creative entrepreneur with twenty years of experience in setting up and running companies and arts organisations in the creative industries such as New Media Scotland, Screenbase and Edinburgh's Fringe Film Festival.
"Limbo has established itself as the place to go to check out new talent... The centre of Scottish pop music's gravity has conspicuously moved east" The Scotsman
"It is, hands down, one of the best live music programmes around at the minute" The Skinny
"...some of the hottest new Scottish acts... Club Night Of The Month" The Fly
More info at http://black-spring.com/limbo
More info at http://myspace.com/limboedinburgh
From 8pm in The Ballroom. Advance tickets £8 (stbf) / £9 on the door available from Credit card hotline on 08444 155 221, Avalanche Records, Ripping Records, Tickets Scotland (Edinburgh). Buy online here.
