Dec 03 2007
Live music: a complete unknown
Bumsong! Er, Burnsong I mean. But that r and the n together look so like an m it’s hard not to do a double-take whenever I see it.
Burnsong, in the Queen’s Hall. They got a wee collection of singer/songwriters who had never met before, put them together in a house for a week and forced them to eat square sausage and write beautiful new music. Then they came to Edinburgh and played them for us, these songs that were just a week old. And it was fabulous.
It was staggering how beautiful some of the songs were. That’s what happens when you don’t have time to file off the rough edges, or spend weeks pissing around in studios to get the right type of reverb. Just acoustic instruments and nerves and talent.
This lot were the ones responsible. Maybe we’ll hear from some of them again.
- Midge Ure
- Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub)
- Roddy Woomble (Idlewild)
- Jo Mango
- Nuala Kennedy
- Louise Quinn
- L-Marie
- Ziggy Campbell (Found)