Hello all you flavoursome roast chicken and herb chinwags. We have a rather tasty treat on stage as this Saturday’s headline act. Originally from Avignon City in the South of France, Julien Pearly has been playing in Edinburgh music scene for 9 years. After completing an MSc Sound Design in 2005 at the University of Edinburgh where he released his 1st conceptual album “The Changing Man”, he worked freelance creating musical soundtracks and sound design for multimedia video projects. As a collective project Pundigrion (Album 2009) was the starting point for a creative journey exploring genres, live performances and cultures, playing with meanings and poetry in songs. Pundigrion Films followed shortly after to make unique cinematographic experiences around a poetic vision. Here’s a link to some of Julien’s music: soundcloud.com/julienpearly

Oh you know how it is, slots are up for the taking to show an eager-earred style audience your creative wares that have been sweated over many times. Sign up around 7:15pm-7:30pm and OOTB opens the performance floodgate at 8pm.

Will be insanely prickly to see you there…

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Hello. This week’s headline act is worthy of grabbing your attention. The Woods (aka Johnny McFadzean) has played some remarkable sets at OOTB recently. His blend of romantic catchy ballads, lyrical singing and fantastic finger picking has been amazing us all. He will undoubtedly go on to do very well in the Edinburgh music scene – and if you come along this Saturday, you can say you heard him here first. Here’s a link to some of Johnny’s music: soundcloud.com/musicfromthewoods

Holy slots of divine creation are available to ride your musical chariots for fifteen-minutes on the sweet breath of celestial angels. Sign up around 7:15pm-7:30pm and OOTB will start the sermon at 8pm. Original material only for our dear parish.

Will be softly hairy to see you there…

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Yo. No featured act this Saturday, so we have plenty of raw slots exposed to our wide-eyed audiences and performers for another musical gang-bang. More center-page holes in full display are up for grabbing and groping to the delightful yet mechanical moans of the lucky recipients. It’s a fifteen-minute ride on stage which usually covers about three sensual positions of tuneful ecstasy.

Sign up time is 7:15pm-7:30pm and then shortly after OOTB gets the bed rocking at 8pm.

Harden your stare to create a bolder step.

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Hiya, how are you my little cream puffs? Well then my wee pets, OOTB have booked a worthy of your attention headline act for this Saturday. You see my little darlings, Kevin O’Rourke is well known figure on the Edinburgh grass roots music scene. He has been involved with many music projects over the years, notably in the band Underclass. He has since moved onto solo projects, and has delighted us at OOTB with his witty and highly melodic songs for a while now. Get yourselves down to the Kilderkin bar for a rather entertaining evening of original performances, you lovely wee choochter-woochters.

Sign up for a performance slot around 7:15pm-7:30pm, and we’ll raise the silky yet metaphorical curtain at 8pm.

Don’t forget that The Listening Room is back at the Blue Blazer bar every Sunday 7pm. Turn up a little earlier to sign up.

It’s alright to look on the left side of life.

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Hey ho. No featured act this week means we have more open slots up for grabs. Fifteen minutes of stage time each is available so that you can show us your creative wares. Sign up around 7:15pm-7:30pm and then OOTB flushes the musical toilet at 8pm for an evening of thoroughly cleansed performances.

Our sister open mic event, The Listening Room, has returned home to the Blue Blazer bar. After a brief absence (and a stint at a different venue) TLR is now on every Sunday 7pm-9pm in its original and most natural environment. Well worth a visit.

Look underneath the breakfast table to find the top of the morning,

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We have yet another incredible headline act booked for you all this coming Saturday evening. A long-standing fixture of the Edinburgh songwriting scene and a well-known figure on the Scottish band circuit, Graeme Mearns is an established solo acoustic player and songwriter as well as an electric performer with both his own Legendary Graeme Mearns Band and high-paced punksters Joe Viterbo. Covering a wide range of styles from mellow jazz through abrasive alternative to full blown punk rock his highly original material showcases his inimitable guitar style and blackly humorous – not to mention foul-mouthed – poetic sensibilities. Albums range from the sombre acoustic tones of ‘So Far Away’ and the lo-fi eclecticism of ‘Real Life Cinderella’ to the rockier ‘Some Kind of Bliss’ and the simply weird ‘Into the Hollows’. Imagine Django Reinhardt getting drunk with the Stooges and you’re somewhere close.

Here’s a link to Graeme’s website: graememearns.com

Regular performance slots are available as per usual. Sign up 7:15pm-7:30pm and OOTB will press the red button of danger at 8pm. Original material only and free entry as always.

Always put winter socks inside your feet to avoid imperial inches.

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Yo. Another week and another Saturday beckons for another round of open slots. The OOTB stage is open to any performer who has penned their own works and who would like to perform to an appreciative audience in the cosy back room of the Kilderkin bar. Musicians, poets, comedians and the like are all welcome.

Sign up time is 7:15pm-7:30pm, then OOTB kicks off at 8pm for an evening showcasing some of Edinburgh’s finest talent. Will be great to see you there.

Flick the switch to eject the glitch.

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Spring onions and shallots are not good for fleshy open slots as they sting lots if smeared across freshly forming blood clots. OOTB have had a long enough festival break now, and it’s time to get things ‘n’ stuff rolling along. This Saturday there is no featured act, so more slots of stage time are up for grabs.

Sign up around 7:15pm-7:30pm and the curtain rises for a new season of showbizzy creative talent at 8pm. Original material only of course, so let’s hear how you’ve managed to think ideas from inside your head that form analogue packets of artistic information into the real physical world.

Our bowels are empty, but our stomachs are full…

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Hello. This will be our last OOTB until after the festival. So we’re really pleased to feature Mike Donaghy – a fantastic Irish Singer-Songwriter who has visited us a few times in the past.

In his own words:
“Mike Donaghy has been making a name for himself in Ireland and the UK since releasing his first EP (January never came this year) back in 2009. His music and writing has a very inimitable sound, occasionally being linked to folk, Americana and bluegrass. Mike grew up to the sounds of Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, John Prine, The Beatles and Van Morrison being played out from every sound system in the house. He was also fortunate to grow up in a musical family, and a home never short of instruments, and his father working as a TV producer and director, and more importantly, on music shows. He remembers vividly sitting round the fire at home joining in and learning songs with such legends as the Clancy Brothers, June Tabor, Ralph McTell, Keiran Goss, Sonny Curtis and long time friends the Sands Family”

Hello. This week’s featured act wasn’t invited or asked to play at all, but had the brash audacity to desperately and embarrassingly plead for the headline accolade that is more deserving of other worthwhile artists. Tau Boo himself even declares that he can’t really sing, he’s more like someone who is mimicking those who can actually sing. Marry that with a guitar style that is all fingers and thumbs which is also recklessly masked by delay/reverberation effects, and of course he’s been careless enough to unwittingly catch at least three nasty colds this year already. A good source has informed him that brewing fresh ginger as tea everyday should help. So if you don’t want to witness a clumsy great pretender who smells of ginger then avoid at all costs. Here’s a link to his website which is a work in progress: tauboo.co.uk

Do you possess a better natural sounding scent to entice our ears and noses? Sign up time is 7:15pm-7:30pm and then OOTB starts brewing the talent tea at 8pm. Original material only and free entry as always.

Be there or be forever entwined in Tau Boo’s badly needing to be cut mess of hair…

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