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magic marker

About Me

magic marker is a partisan listings provider for Edinburgh. Everything here comes recommended.

For comprehensive listings, try www.list.co.uk or www.theoracle.co.uk .

To let us know about a gig we might like, please send us a message on here or email us at thisismagicmarker [at] hotmail.co.uk.

Click on each listing for a brief preview. Weekly highlights will be posted as blog entries.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 04/11/2007
Influences: 7VWWVW , Amateurs , Ara , Bahookie , Blueflint , Boyfriend/Girlfriend , Broken Records , Cancel the Astronauts , Come In Tokyo , eagleowl , Emily Scott , Employee of the Month , the End of Travelling , Eunoia , Found , The Foundling Wheel , gasgiant , The Great Bear , The Japanese War Effort , Jesus H. Foxx , Jo Foster , the Kays Lavelle , King Bear , Les Cox (Sportifs) , Les Enfant Bastard , Little Pebble , Los Grecos , The Love Gestures , Meursault , Minimal Disturbance Factor , Morvern Callar , My Kappa Roots , My Tiny Robots , North Atlantic Oscillation , The Occasional Flickers , Our Ladies Of Sorrow , Randan Discotheque , Rob St John , Royal Edinburgh Music , Sara & The Snakes , Scrim , The Second Hand Marching Band , U.N.P.O.C , Mike & Ali Vass , The Wee Rogue , Lindsay West , Withered Hand , Woodenbox , Wounded Knee , Wraiths , Y'all Is Fantasy Island , Ziggy Campbell
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Highlight 5: Gimme Shelter

Gimme Shelter are hosting two gigs in Edinburgh this Saturday - in the afternoon (from 2pm) at Beanscene on Holyrood Road, and then in the evening (from 6.30pm) at the Bongo Club.The line-up at each i...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:29:00 GMT

HIGHLIGHT 4: the whole of friday night

This Friday, three great things are happening.(1) Benbecula are holding a free showcase at the Wee Red Bar, and Wounded Knee is going to be back from Berlin for the night to make some of his loop chan...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:39:00 GMT

HIGHLIGHT 3: Adrian Crowley + Danny Schmidt + My Kappa Roots

Henry's Cellar Bar / Saturday, November 24th / 7pm-10pm / £5 inFence Collective-affiliated Irish gentleman Adrian Crowley is back in the capital this week with a band in tow featuring members of Hood ...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:30:00 GMT

HIGHLIGHT 2: Paul Carter Tribute Night

Wee Red Bar / Friday, November 16th / 7pm-late / £5 in (all profits to a good cause)Paul Carter was a well-respected artist and much loved tutor at the Edinbugh College of Art. He died tragically in a...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:17:00 GMT

HIGHLIGHT 1: Dufus + The Love Gestures

Wee Red Bar / Saturday, November 10th / 7pm-10pm / £5 inNew promotions outfit Bear Scotland are doing well for themselves: Dufus are a catch. A perpetually expanding good-time band of men and women in...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:03:00 GMT