Two local bands are set to rattle the rafters for revellers at an up-coming gig in New Winton village hall in aid of the community venue.
Funds raised at the New Winton gig are to help maintain the hall and keep it open for community use. Tickets can be bought on the door for £5. From 7.30pm on Saturday the 20th of April 2013. Cost of entry includes tea or coffee and a raffle. Bring your own bottle.
Fatherson play The Front Room in Haddington this Friday. The gig is the last in a series of live, acoustic music evenings held at the John Gray Centre in association with Lamp House Music.
The group won a Scottish Alternative Music Award for Best Rock/Alternative Band back in March and are now playing to sell-out audiences, including Edinburgh’s Liquid Rooms, Glasgow’s Garage and the Arches. They have a new single and debut album planned for spring 2013. you can listen and see them in action on the band’s YouTube channel.
Support comes from a local act, still to be confirmed, and the ‘Victorian Trout Conspiracy’… another band enjoying a faithful and increasingly large following. Usually a twelve-piece, this East Lothian-based ska band will perform with a smaller group to accommodate the venue.
The Front Room is a collaboration between the Council’s John Gray Centre and Lamp House Music. All bands play their own, original music.
Martin Simpson from Lamp House Music said: “Even before they went on sale, we had lots of enquiries about these tickets. Fatherson have a massive following. Lately they’ve been playing on a much larger scale – enormous tents and festivals – so it’ll be a real treat to see them play an acoustic set in such an intimate setting! The Front Room as a whole has been a great success and it’s fitting for Fatherson to provide the finale. It’s going to be a top night!”
Tickets are £8 from the John Gray Centre (01620 820 680) or Lamp House Music (01620 825 630) and on the door, subject to availability. The bar opens at 7pm, with the first band on stage at 7.30pm
After Blueflint played in Haddington’s new John Gray Centre, the second of three live acoustic gigs is set to take place on 26th October with Paul Gilbody.
Known as The Front Room, the events have been organised with Lamp House Music. The first evening was a sell-out and it is expected the second with Paul Gilbody will be just as popular.
Paul Gilbody is a Belfast-born, Edinburgh-based singer-songwriter who has worked with the likes of KT Tunstall, Tom Jones and Horse and is now concentrating on his own career. He has an abundance of skills including double bass, guitar, beatboxing and pedal-looping.
The Front Room provides an opportunity to catch this highly regarded, multi-talented musician perform his catchy, melodic and chilled-out tunes starting at 7pm on the 26th. The event takes place in the centre’s Star Room, made to resemble a cosy front room with clever use of cardboard artwork created by artists Vic Macrae and Neil Ogg.
Tickets are £8 from the John Gray Centre (01620 820680) or Lamp House Music (01620 825630) and on the door, subject to availability. The bar opens at 7pm, first band 7.30pm
The Front Room is a collaboration between East Lothian Council and Lamp House Music. Also involved are Jewel & Esk College, whose students will oversee the sound production at the event. ELJAM and the Haddington Music Initiative are supporting the gigs and selecting an East Lothian youth support act to perform a short set each evening.
Track: Ricochet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6DWqVOyCAc
Track: Tell me what I’m missin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn1Y49Cd4Mk
Want to hear more? You can listen to more tracks on Paul’s SoundCloud page.
Lamp House Music opened in April 2012. Based in an original Victorian railway building – ‘The Lamp House’ is set in Station Yard, Hospital Road, Haddington, offering rehearsal rooms for musicians and bands. These rooms have been soundproofed and acoustically engineered and are now light, clean and modern practice environments. Rooms are open seven days a week and are available to hire by the hour. They come fully equipped with new, top spec equipment. Lamp House Music lessons are fun, friendly and affordable, available in a variety of instruments for both children and adults. Fully experienced and qualified tutors are available for one-to-one tuition and class-style lessons, which include guitar, drums, vocals and keyboards. Lamp House Music have run two very successful children’s Summer Schools and will be holding an Autumn School during the October school holiday.
Check out the latest events and activities across the county in the October to December issue of East Lothian’s Arts News.
East Lothian Council Museums are also hosting a range of events and activities throughout this month including ideas for families during the October break.
In this 20 page issue you can find out more about East Lothian’s celebrations for St Andrew’s Day; what’s on at the Lennoxlove Book Festival; how Scottish tenor Martin Aelred is making money for Mary’s Meals; and how the Arts Service has been supporting visual artists and craftmakers.
There is a particularly useful and quite extensive directory of local events, concerts, gigs and performances, plus details of arts and craft, creative writing, dance, drama, music and song classes, groups and clubs that are taking place.
You can pick up a hard copy from Brunton Theatre or various East Lothian Council buildings including libraries and community centres.
A series of live music events will shortly take place at Haddington’s new John Gray Centre. The first event features Blueflint, Caroline Gilmour and a support act, on Friday 28th September.
More music will be happening on the last Friday of the month in October and November. We’ll let you know the line-up when we get word.
The bar opens at 7pm, with the music starting at 7.30pm.
Tickets are £8 and are available directly from the John Gray Centre on 01620 820695 or via Lamp House Music 01620 825630. You can also pay on the door.
A Blueflint track:
Many mums, dads and grandparents will already be familiar with Hullabaloo – Fun With Music!. It’s a Pre-school music and movement class that’s run by a local mum, Charlotte McMillan.
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Classes are already held in Pencaitland and Haddington, but there are plans to provide more classes this August in time for the new school year.
As Charlotte explains, “Both drop-in sessions and bookable blocks of classes are on offer, and everyone gets the chance to try it out for free, so you’ve nothing to lose. Children from as young as a few weeks can come along and it’s a great chance to meet other children and their parents. So please come and have a sing-along with me, my guitar, my instruments and my friends. It’s usually good fun and a great social thing in which to get involved.”
For more info, contact Charlotte via email on the web, Facebook or by phone on 01875 341679 or 07966 434591.
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