Out of the Bedroom will not be on this Thursday, 12th June, due to a prior booking at Safari Lounge. We will instead be running on Thursdays 19th and 26th June, either side of Midsummer.
We hope to see you at Safari Lounge then. 🙂
Out of the Bedroom is on a break until September.
For those in Edinburgh, we hope you enjoy the Festival / Fringe. We’ll see you all soon! 🙂
Out of the Bedroom will be back every fortnight in The Safari Lounge starting Thursday 7th September. In the meantime, we will be enjoying a break at the Edinburgh Fringe and the other Edinburgh festivals in August.
We look forward to seeing you in September! 🙂
Our Stage, Your Music: OOTB on Thursdays
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OOTB Presents…OPEN SLOTS!!! OOTB 482
Thanks so much to those that came along on Saturday night, helped out and played their songs to everyone. Special thanks goes to Dave Keir, and his excellent feature set. He has CDs for sale too!…just go to http://www.dave-keir.com/. Just to mention, both the Listening Room (Blue Blazer, Sundays, 8pm) and The Ale House (Clerk St, Tuesday & Fridays, 9.30pm) are also excellent open mics and well worth a visit. You may also want to check out the latest news on the open mic and gig front by going to http://edinburghunlimited.blogspot.com. brought to you by the man whom, by sheer coincidence, is presenting Katie Forbes, Stevie B Good, Caro Bridges and himself (Calum Carlyle) Live for only £3 at The Third Door, Lothian Street, 8pm. This Saturday coming, we have a special evening of Open Slots! Yes, that’s right, three hours of non-stop (well almost non-stop) songwriting mayhem! So bring along your songs and your friends, and pin back your ears to hear some fantastic music! All the best See you out there! 🙂 Nyk Stoddart – OOTB Secretary
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It’s Out of the Bedroom 400 this week! it’s our first (and only?) covers night of 2010. Learn some covers, especially covers of someone else you’ve heard at OOTB, and come along. There will be cakes, it’ll be reviewed by Visual-Opinions.com. It’ll probably all run hideously off-schedule, but that’s rock ‘n’ roll! I’m certain it’ll be memorable. Come along, and in years to come, you’ll be able to say you were there. Mark my words, it’ll be an all star extravaganza of epic proportions.
One thing i really wanted to mention to you last week, and forgot, is the 50/90 Songwriting Challenge. Can you write 50 songs in 90 days? Even if you think the answer’s ‘no’, do you want to be part of a thriving online community of songwriters, all writing songs simultaneously, collaborating, commenting on each other’s work and generally egging each other on? Check out the site, anyway. I’ve already written three songs since 5090 started on Sunday, only 47 to go!
Now, other interesting events… Two things are happening next Tuesday (13th July) that i wanted to mention, first of all it’s Niall Connolly at the Roxy Art House at 8pm, he’s an accomplished acoustic performer, and he’ll be doing the final gig of his tour in Edinburgh. Also on Tuesday 13th July, it’s the fourth Regent Showcase. These are on every month, on the second Tuesday, at The Regent at the top of Abbeymount near London Road. I think they start at 8pm, and it’s free to get in. There’s comedy this month from Graeme Thomas and tons of music by performers that will be both familiar and new to OOTB regulars.
There are bound to be some other events on this week, obviously, there’s The Listening Room at The Blue Blazer on Spittal Street/Bread Street, it’s on Sunday, get there before 8pm if you want to play in the open mic section of the evening. On Friday, there’s the McEwan’s Ale House open mic night, starting at 9pm on South Clerk Street, across the road from what used to be the Odeon. There are various others, but to be honest i think we’ll let them do their own email publicity for once. 🙂 See you on Thursday!
Thorn’s Coloradan Journey…
It’s monthly, it’s Out of the Bedroom and it’s in Woodland Park, Colorado. Yes, that cornerstone of OOTB Darren Thornberry has established an OOTB outreach station in the wilds of Colorado and has had some success finding indigenous singer songwriters in their natural habitat. Furthermore he’s now got a website devoted to his findings! Check out www.ootbcolorado.com for more information.
Date: Saturday, 30 March 2019 from 09:00-17:00 (GMT)
Venue: Upmo, B1, 151 London Road, EH7 6AE Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Price: £30 (waged) £20 (unwaged)
Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4108045
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2264159320487350/
Run by the excellent Caro Bridges, this songwriters’ workshop, run by Out of the Bedroom, will be an opportunity to take some time out, learn some new tricks and hopefully emerge with a new song!
Caro Bridges is an Edinburgh based songwriter and professional musician. She has been writing and performing her own songs for ten years in bands and with singing groups and choirs that she leads, spanning genres with the music she creates. Following a summer school at Guildhall School of Music & Drama, she developed a participatory songwriting process for groups, and has used this in several community settings with folk of different ages and with a variety of life experiences. She is an encouraging and warm facilitator, dedicated to helping everyone to enjoy making music that they love.
Light refreshments will be available on the day.
Out of the Bedroom is Edinburgh’s longest-running open mic night and is sponsoring the event.
Date: Saturday, 20th July 2024 from 09:30-17:30 (GMT)
Venue: Leith Community Centre, 12A Newkirkgate, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6AD
Price: £20
Tickets: https://bit.ly/ootbswd (via EventBrite)
Run by local legend William Douglas, this songwriters’ workshop, run by Out of the Bedroom, will be an opportunity to take some time out, learn some new tricks and hopefully emerge with a new song!
Update: The price has been reduced to £20 to make this event as affordable as possible for attendees, given the current cost of living crisis.
William Douglas is an Edinburgh based songwriter and professional musician. William has been writing and performing his own music since his teens and has been in several much-loved bands including Miracle Glass Company who played at the New York Tartan Parade 2019 and several festivals in the UK and Europe. William runs several open mic nights in Edinburgh and has hosted songwriting workshops for children.
Light refreshments will be available on the day.
Out of the Bedroom is Edinburgh’s longest-running open mic night and is sponsoring the event.
