Thursday, 24th of July 2008 at 19:00

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Originally an acoustic 2- piece from Dundee, Scotland, The Kays Lavelle ", play wistful acoustica and have been described as "dark and beautiful.” They released debut EP I Can't Believe You're Here in June ‘06 and since then have had the good fortune to play shows with the likes of iLiKETRAiNS, Kid Harpoon, The Wave Pictures, Make Model, FOUND, Meursault, Chris Difford, Her Name Is Calla, Glissando and others. Influenced in no small part by the facial hair of The Band and the step to the side and chop technique adopted by Daniel Larusso in Karate Kid I, they ventured into the world of film with a documentary about the making of the EP which was released by award winning Scottish film maker Matty "MJ" Ross in July ’07 - www.sleepysoul.co.uk
The Kays Lavelle are currently working on plans for an album,
www.thekayslavelle.com
www.myspace.thekayslavelle

MEURSAULT
“Two gigs in the past few weeks have bowled me over. One was by a folky quartet who made a thrilling, life-affirming racket with ukuleles, banjos and a wooden crate, and reminded me of Neil Young and REM. The other one was by a man who conjured haunting, distorted electronica using little more than a laptop, his voice and a loop pedal, and reminded me of Thom Yorke of Radiohead's solo experiments. The odd thing was, they were the same band. Meursault, a loose collective of musicians headed by Edinburgh singer-songwriter Neil Pennycook, are one of the most enticing, yet hard to pin down, groups to emerge from the capital in some time.. What holds the two extremes of Meursault together is Pennycook's beautiful songs and instantly recognisable voice, an impassioned, heartwrenching howl that can invest even the most straightforward of phrases with a sense of urgency. Potentially he is Edinburgh's answer to Mark Eitzel of American Music Club… or if he chooses to make pop records, Robert Smith of The Cure. One album into their career, Meursault sound like they could go in all sorts of exciting directions. Currently, it's enough that they stand out a mile from the identikit indie guitar bands that inhabit Scotland's stages much of the time. Who else is making melancholy electronica with banjos and ukuleles? It's a struggle even to know what to call this odd, inspiring little subgenre – ukulectronica?” – Andrew Eaton, Arts Editor, The Scotsman.

“Clasping together starry-eyed electronica with cotton-picking wreaths of banjo plucks and ukulele strums, their debut album Pissing On Bonfire/Kissing With Tongues is an unassuming triumph of glum-pussed Scottish charm that cradles its knees like a sombrely-lit fusion of Postal Service and King Creosote. Frontman Neil Pennycook's piping rasp is the cornerstone of this resplendent quartet – incoherent, insatiable and entirely indomitable – yet, so deep are the surrounding caveats of sensor-tingling phonics, it takes myriad spins to uncover his voluptuous drawl.“ – Drowned In Sound

www.myspace.com/meursaulta701

BARN OWL
www.myspace.com/barnowltheband

ROSS CLARK
www.myspace.com/electricpolyester