A Very Musical Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone!

It's been an extremely musical Christmas over on Facebook this year. Lots of our friends have been recording and posting awesome Christmas songs and in the absence of a Moon & River Christmas Concert, we decided to record our own little Christmas song too.



We thought we'd do a run down of all the excellent Christmas tracks our friends have been posting too.

First up, Kaley Ukulele recorded a Christmas album for her Niece. Matt and Tom played banjo, mandolin and bass on it and Dave added vocals and mixed it. It comes highly recommended!



Second up, our good friend Naomi Black from Chasing Owls recorded a gorgeous version of 'Away in a Manger' with just vocals and harmonium. It's awesome, go listen!



The brilliant and all round Edinburgh institution, the Banana Sessions have an excellent original Christmas song called 'Don't Loose Your Mind (It's Christmas Time)'. Incidentally, they're doing a concert in Pivo Pivo, Glasgow on the 30th December. If you haven't seen them yet (you probably have if you live in Edinburgh) it's well worth it!



We're lucky enough to have played with Washington Irving a couple of times now, they're amazing. They've recorded an awesome rustic sounding Christmas EP on an old tape deck.



That's as much as we know of for now - but let us know if you've heard something awesome that you think should be included.

Hogmanay!

A few weeks ago we entered a competition called Hog the Street that offered the winner a slot on the Hogmanay Concert in the Gardens line up, supporting Primal Scream. We entered, as none of us had any plans for New Year and we all thought it would be pretty amazing to play the Concert in the Gardens. We didn't seriously think we'd win.

Two weeks later, and after many Facebook likes, comments, £670 for Shelter Scotland and the best support from our friends and family that we could every possibly imagine, here we are getting our heads round that we're going to be playing on this stage at new year.

Photo courtesy of http://www.edinburghguide.com 

It will, undoubtedly be the biggest gigs of our lives, on the biggest stage of our lives and we can't wait. Although many of our friends won't be able to attend - we've decided to put on a free gig for everyone in the new year. If you're interested, keep an eye out here, and on our Facebook page where we'll announce details before Christmas.

Anyway, thank you to Leith Records for putting on a great event and most of all, the amazing friends and family that came down to support us. We really couldn't have done it without you.

Here's a wee video from Sunday.