Improvising group based in Edinburgh, Scotland formed by composer & bass player Dave Conway and features Steve Kettley on saxes, Stuart Allardyce on guitar and Des Travis on drums - think Bitches Brew meets Zappa on ECM.........and beyond...............http://www.myspace.com/egoergoaggro
Isobel "Isy" Suttie (born 11th August, 1978) is a comic and actor. She was born in Hull, raised in Matlock, Derbyshire, England and trained as an actor at the Guildford School of Acting receiving her First Class B.A. (Hons) in 2000. Isy started performing stand-up, songs and characters on the comedy circuit in 2003. She now performs both as herself and as a number of singing characters including angsty U.S.
Jacob's Pillow are a seven-piece Scottish folk-rock band. Since forming in Edinburgh in 2004, they have released a debut EP, Pathfinder, and are currently in the process of recording their first album. The music of Jacob's Pillow is a blend of many different styles, encompassing folk, rock, jazz, blues, psychedelia and Celtic fusion, and drawing on influences as diverse as The Incredible String Band, Led Zeppelin and King Crimson. Live performances often feature reworked and lengthened versions of songs, with extensive improvised sections.
BACKGROUND
Since forming, Outbox have headlined London Fashion Week, held talks with the producers of a Scorsese flick, supported Wet Wet Wet and Westlife, performed to 30 thousand people, had national airplay and achieved a top 40 hit in Scotland, and that all comes before the forthcoming release of their debut album "Millie's Magical Catnip Dreams". Their unique blend of acoustic pop meets rock with a dash of folk has ignited a fire inside many a music fan who have seen them. QUOTES
"Daniel Powter, Feargal Sharkey and D-Ream all in one room. Energetic, raw. It's got to intrigue you…"
Elephantine are a band from Trondheim, Norway, created around late 2007, and comprises Simon Nylund, Ørjan Langnes, Morten Telle, Tarjei Fiske Fjalestad and Gøran Gimsøy. The metal band is a musically harrowing image of how metal can, and perhaps should -sound like in 2011. We´re talking musical gravity in it´s purest form; Massive, guitar flooded heavy Rock. Have you seen a single band, giving everything on stage;
you know it´s quality that can´t be denied.
Edinburgh-based band 'The Occassional Flickers' are originally from Athens, Greece. Giorgos Bouras has been going under the Occasional Flickers guise for a couple of years now and the debut album 'Scattered Songs' has just been released on Peru's Plastilna Records which is the home to the likes of Annemarie and Amida amongst others. The current line-up features Giorgos Bouras, Bart Owl, Jamie Scott, Panayotis Baras, Ola Rek and Ailig Hunter.
In Mirrors is a 6-piece ensemble (originating from Edinburgh, Scotland) formed in late 2011. Influenced by bands like Porcupine Tree, Radiohead, Pink Floyd and Elbow; In Mirrors strives to create a new strain of progressive and alternative influenced songs and soundscapes. Still a new band, In Mirrors won the Battle of the Bands (Untapped Talent 2012) on the strength of only their second live performance.
Nick Keir is an Edinburgh folk singer, and is well known on the folk scene - his music is well loved by people in the know. He is well worth looking into.
Nick began his career with the now-legendary Folk/Rock band "Finn mac Cuill" and worked with 7;84 Theatre Company befor joining The McCalmans. After Dec 2010 he'll be working solo, in a duo with Stephen Quigg and continuing his association with The Tolkien Ensemble, touring Europe with them in a huge Stage show, narrated by Christopher Lee