Come along to the Blue Blazer on Sunday 10 May 2009 for a feature set by Hannah O’Reilly, who will no doubt be selling copies of her new CD “Stilletto”. Come for 8pm and catch the always-spectacular open-mic section of the night too. Free admission.
Hello everybody, and welcome to another OOTB email!
First of all i need to tell you about this (click here) I spotted this on Malcolm Mclean’s FB profile! Awesome! Just click the squares. Great fun.
This week at Out of the Bedroom, the featured act is Ross Neilson, who’s just brought out a new CD, which will be available on the night, and that’s Tuesday 19th April at 8pm (7:30pm if you want to sign up for an open slot). Last week’s was great by the way, Lost Telegrams came along, and Andro Sneddon from Something Illustrated, and to be honest the general standard was high as usual. Well, you all knew that already…
Also, remember these downloads expire after a few weeks, so if you didn’t get the previous mp3s, now’s the time to do it. Just scroll through the OOTB website to find the download links.
Right, time for this week’s gigs. Well, if you’re reading this on Sunday 17 April, then get yourself along to Bannerman’s for Neoviolet‘s last gig with the classic five-piece lineup. It’s an 8pm start, and it costs £4 for three acts, one of which is Neoviolet.
Also tonight (Sun 17 April) it’s Sam Barber at The Listening Room, 8pm for the open slots, 9pm for Sam Barber, and it’s at The Blue Blazer on Spittal Street.
On Tuesday 19th, it’s OOTB featuring Ross Neilson, of course.
Sam Barber and the Outcasts are also playing at The Wee Red Bar on Wednesday 20 April at 7:30pm though the FB event doesn’t say if it costs or if anyone else is on the bill.
Also on Wednesday 20 April, The Montague (home of OOTB) are having an Innis & Gunn tasting evening! It begins at 8pm.
On Friday 22 April, it’s this month’s Haight Ashbury Love Music at The City Cafe, and it starts at 8pm, featuring Dead Man’s Waltz, Appassionados, and Miyagi, plus DJ Lexington III all for only £3/4.
Also on Friday for free at The Captain’s Bar, it’s Stefan Van de Sande, on tour from Holland. I don’t think it costs, it starts at 8:30pm anyway.
Then next Sunday (24 April) Augustalia are playing at Maggie’s Chamber. It’s a 6pm start, kicking off with Arran Arctic, and wall to wall bands until midnight.
Phew! Then we’re back to the start of next week!
Right, tell everyone about our free MP3s please, and get yourself along to some gigs, including OOTB!
Calum Carlyle
Out of the Bedroom
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OOTB is spending quality time in Toiletland over the holidays and will be Out Of The Bathroom for normal service after New Year on Saturday 12th January 2013. See you then, then.
Have a seasonal trouble-free journey of posterior ablutions… 😀
Out of the Bedroom is having a festive break – see you all in 2019! 🙂
Out of the Bedroom is now on its Christmas holidays! We’ll be back in the The Safari Lounge on Thursday 9th January 2025. We hope you have a happy, peaceful and restful festive season and we’ll see you in the New Year.
It’s coming up for February, and that means you can soon take up the February Album Writing challenge, as mentioned here in our discussion board.
Here’s the official website: http://www.fawm.org/
Dave Keir appeared on the Edinburgh music scene about a year ago, and impressed us with his fantastic guitar playing and memorable songs…if you haven’t heard him yet, you must!. He has a website at http://www.dave-keir.com/
So please come along, and bring your songs – and your friends! You’re all very welcome!
As you know, our hard-working webmaster, Calum Carlyle, is very busy and has sadly decided to move onto other projects. His fantastic work on the committee, upgrading the website, and not to mention his fantastic weekly OOTB emails have become the stuff of legend. So please give Calum a warm round of applause as we wish him well for the future!
But have no fear! He is still performing, writing songs and organising music nights, such as Edinburgh Unlimited (which is on at The Third Door on the 11th July, 8pm, £3) , and also has a blog at http://edinburghunlimited.blogspot.co.uk/ which contains his usual information about the latest open mics and gigs.
Our committee is undergoing a transitory phase at the moment, so please bear with us. Our night is still running fine, and is as busy as usual. Thanks so much to the people who have volunteered to help out. We would be nothing without you.
Hope to see you soon! 🙂
Nyk Stoddart
OOTB Secretary
For your information, here’s a note received from someone other than the Edinburgh Free Fringe that some of you may be interested in. OOTB doesn’t take responsibility for the accuracy of this message.
If anyone is interested in playing in the Free Edinburgh Fringe Festival and/or slots on the Pear Tree garden stage in August check out www.freefestival.co.uk and email alex@laughinghorse.co.uk
If you fancy performing in the Free Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year and/or on the Pear Tree garden stage in August, drop the organiser Alex Petty a line: alex@laughinghorse.co.uk It’s great fun, you do not have to pay extortionate fees to hire a venue at festival time and your only real outlay is £20 for single shows or £40 for multiple shows in the Free Festival programme and website.
PS: Apologies but I made a mistake with the cost of advertising in the Edinburgh Fringe programme … not sure where I got the £70 figure from but it’s a quite a bit more than that, especially now that the 27th March early bird discount deadline has passed. So this bit of the message is incorrect:
If you are really keen you can also pay £70 for a one off entry in the Fringe Festival programme which could boost your audience numbers and pay for flyers with which you can merrily annoy locals and tourists alike, but Alex can tell you more about all of that.
This week our featured act at OOTB is Cameron Phair. He’s a great songwriter, a great performer, and a nice guy too. Come along this Thursday, you’ll like it. The usual open mic slots, chances to win big with the Silver Bag o’ Dreams and much more zany originalness will also be available this Thursday, an evening of fun for all the family.
By the way, OOTB performer Caro Bridges has just brought out a free online EP so please check it out. I think she’s really good, and i hope you will too. Once you’ve listened to it, why not give us your opinions by commenting below?
Speaking of Cameron Phair (as we were), he’s got an evening on tonight (free admission) at The Regent Bar, which is at the top of Abbeymount, it’s the third Regent Showcase, a sort of acoustic revue. I really enjoyed the last one and would urge you to go along tonight. For those with money in their pockets though, why not go to the Voodoo Rooms tonight? It’s Come On Gang!, Thank You So Nice and Lindsay and the Storm playing for a fiver.
Then tomorrow night (Wednesday 9th June) you can hear the incredible sounds of mayhew and Three Long Words at The Lot in the Grassmarket from 7pm for only £5. This is worth it, folks. In years to come, will you look back and think how great it was to be involved with the thriving music scene in Edinburgh? Now’s the time to go for it, Edinburgh’s music scene’s more vibrant now than i can remember it being for a long time.
It’s Out of the Bedroom on Thursday of course, and as usual, there’s the aptly named McEwan’s Ale House Open Mic on Friday from 9pm, and also at the McEwan’s Ale House on Saturday is the debut of a new fortnightly event run by Nick Splinter Smith, and this Saturday it’s Nick Splinter Smith Presents… Calum Carlyle. Starting at 10pm, It’ll be an informal acoustic evening with me (Calum) playing some of my songs solo. Free admission. Then on Sunday, come along to The Blue Blazer for the ever popular Listening Room at 8pm, it’s also free.
I may as well tell you about next week while we’re here, because i really want to mention the gig next Tuesday at Electric Circus. It’s twelve bands for a fiver, ranging from rock to pop to acoustic to decks ‘n’ drums, however most relevantly it’s the first ever outing for my new band. At the moment, we’re just called Calum Carlyle and Friends, and we’ll be doing a twenty minute set, along with eleven other bands. I’m quite excited about it, to be honest, and as i say it’s at Electric Circus on Tuesday 15th June starting at 6pm. Realistically, our band’ll be on somewhere between about 7:45pm and 9:30pm, but i’ve heard a few of the other bands and they’re all worth hearing so get there early. It’s £5 on the door or £4 in advance. All the profits go to the charity Cash For Kids.
