Reading Time: 2 minutesThe air inside La Belle Angele on Friday night was already thick from the smoke machine before anyone comes near the stage. Blue lights from the back of the stage setting the scene for the double bill of Redfish Blues and Jensen Interceptors.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFull Fat are a trio of musicians, originally founded in Aberdeen, but have been a presence in the Edinburgh music scene for the last few years.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis performance by Niki King interlaced songs celebrating Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington with some from her own album “The Everlasting Energy of Love”.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSaturday’s show with Blue Giant Orkestar, the Scottish Balkan-celtic fusion octet, produced this exact effect. The programme description of them being “fuelled by Balkan horos, Serbian brass festivals, Turkish pop songs, Bulgarian accordion fireworks and even a spot of Scottish ceilidh” only tells half the story.