Reviews
FALL or rnov Barfly, Glasgow, Sat 11 Mar 0000
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While too many insist l onrlon's lest Icicles are the oerangetl noise trio should all he listening to. i all of lroy prove that when it comes to loud anrl ilangercuti. Seattleites. as usual, do it lietter. (Arvin-:1Hoithtviijix)
ACTION GROUP Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh. Fri 10 Mar 0000
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THE ALIENS
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FOLK JULIE FOWLIS Queen's Hall, Edinburgh. Sun 9 Apr
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(:(lilt:(ill()lt of mostly {ifi\,(‘i‘:t‘( it -l.:~ it it ‘l‘d be lying if I said I wasn‘t nervous,‘ admits Julie Fowlis. ‘l‘m half looking tunes ‘.r‘.’illtiil reteience meiytliiiig ‘i: forward to it and half frightened.‘ The rising star of Scotland‘s Gaelic music Primal Scream and the Beta Hailtl scene is talking about stepping up a level to play the Queen‘s Hall as part inatchi to i)llli\ l low the Bear ii It: of Edinburgh‘s Ceilidh Culture festival. “In Dochas, you‘re one part of the am the l hing Hiirrito lliothers. band, an equal among the others; but up there I‘ll be leading my own
group, doing all the chat. It’s a shock to the system — and it's not something that I had an ambition to do.’
Already a veteran of foreign tours and the festival circuit playing in Dochas, the band is made up of former students at Glasgow‘s Strathclyde and RSAMD trad music courses, Fowlis is an expert whistle player and piper, with a rare talent as a performer on the cor anglais.
‘When we moved from Uist to Dingwall, my new school said OK to the pipes, but I would have to take up a second instrument,’ she says. ‘And I got the one that nobody wanted. A plastic oboe. So I squawked on it for a few years until I got good at it.‘
As I one Pigeon, Anderson is an But it‘s Fowlis the Gaelic singer, through last year‘s solo album Mar 3 tha enigmatic stage presence. hut here he Mo Chridhe, that caught the public's attention. Voted Gaelic Singer of the tires through the roles ol piano liasnei. Year at Scotland‘s 2005 Traditional Music Awards, and Best Emerging Artist axemeistei and Ian Brown sliamhlei at BBC Radio 2‘s Horizon Folk Awards, she's carving out new ground.
Wliit a natural showmanshiii that is as ‘I wouldn‘t have expected all that’s happened,‘ she says. ‘The solo album welcome as it is surprising there‘s was just a project. I’d had all these songs in my head for a while, and I nothing m; ssively original or wanted to make an unpretentious album of the songs I loved. Now I find it meaningful to the Aliens“ riiiisic. hut funny when people come up sometimes after gigs - and it has happened -— their grooves. riffs and haiiiionies are and say, “I‘d never have come if I knew you sung in Gaelic.“ They’ve
so confidently dispatched as to he enjoyed it all the same. And then there are the people who say, “You have i)ver‘i)owering. Resistance is tutile. to get mainstream radio on board. Sing in English.” I think that’s the wrong il)oug J()hllf;l()rl(}l idea. And if you can change that attitude, it‘s great.‘ (Norman Chalmers)
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EMBRACE
Coran Halls, Oban, Sat 8 Apr; Albert Halls, Stirling, Sun 9 Apr; Barrowland, Glasgow, Thu 13 Apr; Corn Exchange, Edinburgh, Fri 14 Apr
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