Gig announced!

Friday 23rd July at the Forest Cafe, Edinburgh -

Saint Jude's Infirmary featuring , The Golden Hedges, The Folk (feat The Gadgee), and The Last September.

Gadgee's Banjo Blues - hand-drawn sketch of my Goldtone Cripple Creek banjo. Some of the new songs have been written on this. I'm looking for some stickers to put on the skin. Not very Billy Childish.

Music Update

One new banjo tune is finally finished, lyrics, title and all and is now called "Da Vinci, Cezanne & Francis Bacon Would Approve". Part sea shanty and part artist catharsis. Eh!!?? Inspired by views from my room of the Firth of Forth and, em, Leisureland amusement arcade on the Prom.

I'll try and get the rough demos for the following up and running....

1. Patron Saint of Saints
2. Hooligan Choir (Richard Manuel's last Grand Marnier)
3. Oceola

The Gadgee's Pyrothechnics Ahoy Puggy Band!

After getting together again with Bobby and Liam looks like the live set for any gigs will consist of some acoustic three-piece songs with me on banjo, electric three-piece with me on electric guitar and hopefully some additional friends who would be willing to drag their instruments along for the sake of playing a couple of songs.

Tim Brooke-Taylor's live non-smoking non-license debut

Yes its here even before there's any music out there! After a break from my previous band I've been writing new songs and rehearsing with Bobby Jamieson (ex-Some Fine Noise) and Liam Rankin (ex-Painbirds-turned-recorder-of-music). Thank you to them for getting me to pull my finger out.

You should see all sorts of fancy shit on this site if I make friends with someone wot has got IT pure-skill. Like photos and some downloads of demos I'm working on at home. Bobby, Liam and myself have been asked to play the Forest Cafe in Edinburgh on the 23rd July with the wonderful Saint Jude's Infirmary. My favourite Edinburgh band. Andy asked us to come up with a name. A job I tried to fob off on the other two with pitiful results.

Slut Actress, Tim Brooke-Taylor, The C*nts, The F*cks, and Edinburgh Bus Drivers were all possibilites. Pathetic! It's Liam's idea to get a genuine collective of musicians playing on each others stuff. If he manages this in Edinburgh without the evil ego making its presence known amongst members this sounds like a great idea. If it's good enough for the East Neuk....

So, the collective is called 'The Folk' and the first night of live music by 'The Folk' will be 'The Folk (featuring The Gadgee)'. That's me. I'll be asking some other 'folk' to help out on the night with triangles and stuff.