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Three bits of news that might be of interest to fans of our song Largs Hum.
1. Our next live show is in Largs. Sort of. Specifically, it’s at the Garden Party festival at Kelburn Castle and Country Park, on Saturday 20 June. It’s a beautiful place, and should be a great festival. Found, James Yorkston, The Aliens, The Bays and lots of other people we like are playing too. You should come. Book your tickets here. Early bird tickets are cheaper.
2. A London band called The New Royal Family have recorded a very funny spoof of Largs Hum, called Scotland the Brave. You can listen to it at their MySpace page.
3. Oh look, the BBC did a story about the Hum today. And what was that music soundtracking their report? Yep, it was Largs Hum.
SATURDAY 9 MAY - Sneaky Pete’s, Cowgate, Edinburgh. Our first show at a cool new music venue, at a night with the charming title of Manky Bastard. Luxury Car and Lions Chase Tigers are playing too. See www.myspace.com/mbconcerts for more.
THURSDAY 14 MAY - Carnegie Hall, East Port, Dunfermline. Swimmer One play the annual Tigerfest extravaganza in the distinguished company of Found and Cruiser. Full festival listings here.
Look, here’s us on stage at the Caves in Edinburgh a few months ago, playing a song from our new album, out later this year. Andrew is still wishing he hadn’t worn those trousers. (The song is called This Club Is For Everybody, Even You, by the way, not This Club is For Everyone. We didn’t write the caption)
At last, we are going to perform our song Largs Hum in Largs - or rather just outside it. In June, we can announce, we will play brand new festival The Garden Party, at Kelburn Castle in Largs, along with The Bays, James Yorkston, Found, A Band Called Quinn and many more. There’s a full list of acts at the festival website.
THURSDAY 19 MARCH - The Buff Club, Bath Lane, Glasgow. Swimmer One are guests of A Band Called Quinn at the launch of their excellent new album. There will be cabaret performers too. It’ll be a lot of fun. You can buy advance tickets at www.tickets-scotland.com.
THURSDAY 14 MAY - Carnegie Hall, East Port, Dunfermline. Swimmer One play the annual Tigerfest extravaganza in the distinguished company of Found and Cruiser.
Hope to see you there. More shows to be announced soonish.
We’re planning to release two albums this year, all being well, and are currently working very hard trying to finish them both. Nearly there. Watch this space for updates (or click on read more to find out more about them just now)...
A very happy Christmas and new year to everybody who reads this stuff. Here, as a sort of seasonal gift, are some new things to look at and listen to for free. Click on the wee link below for details…
We are playing two free live shows in November, at Oran Mor in Glasgow on Wednesday 26 November and The Caves, Edinburgh, on Thursday 27 November…
Things might be a little quiet for a short while, but after that they will get much louder. We have two projects currently on the go…
Steve Mason has cancelled his gig at the Edge festival in Edinburgh on Sunday. So clearly we won’t be supporting him any more. Boo.
If you were planning to go out in Edinburgh that night, we can recommend Neue Liebe, a special festival edition of the Edinburgh cabaret night, which we recently headlined, full of Fringe performers.
We’ll announce new live dates soon, hopefully.
Andrew