Been a while since the last update, in that time we’ve been nearly snowed in at a great little studio in London (Hopefully more news on that soon).

Around the time of all that I did a little Q and A with The Tidal Wave of Indifference, a great wee Edinburgh music blog, or since I work with its main writer, ‘Stu from work’… and here it is. Kind words indeed.

Andyx

Hope all’s going well! Just a wee note to say there’s another Edinburgh gig in March – on Saturday 24th, supporting Graeme’s (formerly of The Kays Lavelle) new project, Bad Books. It’s at Sneaky Pete’s in the Cowgate. More specifics, etc. when they’re confirmed.

Andyx

As you may have seen, we’re in Manchester at the Castle Hotel pub this weekend to play a Northern Noise gig, their first ever night in fact, so it should be pretty special! The line-up for the evening is Narwhals, ourselves and headliners Hhymn who are on a wee tour ahead of their album launch in May.

There are a limited amount of tickets left and only a few available on the door so get booking if you fancy it…

Andyx

We’ll be having a Christmas shindig again this year! This time in Edinburgh (Facebook RSVP here).

On Saturday December 17th, we’re playing a full band show at Sneaky Pete’s, along with Alan Oates of Little Pebble fame, who’ll be performing under his distortion-tinged band project The Oates Field, they released a great album Wild Oates this year! Also joining us is Giorgos Bouras with his project The Occasional Flickers who sound like the best mix of all your favourite indie bands and themselves! Or as Bart from Eagleowl put it “Scottish indie pop with a Greek accent.” They’ve a new album too, and you can find out more about that on their facebook.

Tickets are £5 on the door, or you can buy them online in advance for £4 here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/145677 .

// Andy

They talked about songwriting, Fuzzy Star and being on the AWAL compilation ‘We Are Folk Vol 1‘ that came out last week. He also played a few acoustic songs. The results of both these things and a contribution from Patrick from AWAL are  being broadcast tomorrow, Tuesday October 25th as part of the first AWAL On Air show. [Updated 26/10] You can listen again here, Patrick from AWAL is at about 23 minutes, the session is at  41 ish.

@AWALonair Twitter
AWAL On Air Facebook page

We Are Folk Vol 1. on the AWAL Recordings website.

Apologies for the slight radio silence. There’s been one of those tedious post-festival/away on holiday/back from holiday but now ill lulls around here of late… now broken by:

The Ides Of Toad
Organised and ran by Matthew of the Edinburgh based Song By Toad website/label, this next Saturday (Oct 1st) there’ll be a Fuzzystar contingent supporting the highly recommended John Knox Sex Club and Mancunians Easter – which if band names are anything to go will indeed be as brilliant live as they sound online! Things kick off from 7pm at Henry’s Cellar Bar . Go on, rouse your work’s IT Department, try that John Knox website address below…

Mr Toad’s Official Facebook RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=284222774925552

Mr Toad’s supplementary information:
“The John Knox Sex Club have a fantastic new album out, and will be bringing their epic, gothic folk to Henry’s to celebrate, with support from Easter, who are travelling up from Manchester, and Edinburgh’s Fuzzystar.”

http://thejohnknoxsexclub.bandcamp.com/
http://soundcloud.com/easterband

BAD NEWS:
Unfortunately our Soup Kitchen gig on September 1st has had to be postponed. We’re working on a new date and will hopefully have that confirmed pretty soon.

Thankfully followed by…

GOOD NEWS:

Andy and Malcolm will be supporting Foon Yap from (of Woodpigeon fame) when she brings her Foon Yap and The Roar band to Edinburgh this coming Wednesday  (August 31)  for a This Is Music gig at Sneaky Pete’s. Also on the bill are Lady North so it should be a good and noisy one!

Doors are at 7pm. Entry is £4/5. For full info and FB event click here.

Festibelly 2011 website.

The rest of our weekend was spent taking in some drum porn in the shape of Battles, enjoying Revere and Kat Flint‘s sets and grinning throughout the mercurial whirlwind of John Cooper Clarke‘s performance, “Come on people, this is class-A material at charity prices!” Not to mention a large amount of time relaxing by the entertainment/bonfire at the Autumn Shift tent itself.

Roll on the next one!