Newsflash: Limbo launches first in series of live albums

Of all the promoters staging live music in Scotland, few can claim to have worked as tirelessly as Limbo over the past year and a half.

The 'live music dance party' hosts three bands a week in the plush setting of Edinburgh's Voodoo Rooms, and its two head honchos, Dave Cummings and Andy Richardson, have been recording it all for the first of a series of live albums. UtR asked Cummings about his plans.

How did you choose which bands to include?

Purely on the basis of which recordings made sense. We've recorded about 120 bands now and these are just some of the first that we mixed down properly over the first six months. Volume 2 will come out in June and once again it will include a wide variety of different bands, including some of the early recordings which we've not mixed down properly yet.

What are your ambitions for the album?

Limbo Live is an ongoing project to document a Scottish music scene that is currently punching way above its weight. In this respect, series such as Live at the Blue Note were definitely an inspiration. We'll be putting out new volumes as often as we can. From another angle, the series also gives bands an opportunity to get their music to a much wider audience more quickly. We can get very good recordings much more straightforwardly than having to go into a studio. We'll see how this one fairs but we're confident of the fact that it will have wide appeal because of the quality of the recordings.

What's the tracklisting?

1) Zoey Van Goey - City Is Exploding
2) FOUND - When You Fall
3) Punch & The Apostles - Asylum
4) Meursault - Pissing On Bonfires / Kissing With Tongues

5) Sparrow & The Workshop - Last Chance


6) Isosceles - Get Your Hands Off
7) Over The Wall - A History of British Welfarism 1945-1984

8) A-lix - Never Grow

9) Cancel The Astronauts - Slow Dance At The Disco

10) Thieves In Suits - Clockwork


11) Come On Gang! - Spinning Room
12) Kid Canaveral - Second Time Around
13) Haight-Ashbury - Favourite Song
14) Night Noise Team - Menolick

When is it coming out?

Limbo Live Volume 01 launches tonight (23 April) at Limbo. Nine of the bands on the CD will be playing in collaborative and experimental ways at the launch event.

Where will it be available from?

limbolive.co.uk and 'all good record shops'.

The Limbo Live launch takes place tonight (23 April, Doors 8pm, £5) at The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh. Playing live in some shape or form will be Meursault, Sparrow and the Workshop, Isosceles, Over the Wall, A-Lix, Theives in Suits, Kid Canaveral, Haight-Ashbury and Cancel the Astronauts. There will also be an after-party at Sick Note, Cabaret Voltaire, with the Black Spring DJs playing a headline DJ set (11pm-3am, free entry).