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Boots For Dancing will be special guests of The Scars featuring Tam Dean Burn at FRETS in Edinburgh at La Belle Angele on Friday 15th Dec. Boots For Dancing were signed to Fast Product’s new label, pop:aural, in the early 1980s. They released a couple of singles produced by Bob Last and performed in LondonContinue reading “Boots For Dancing join the Xmas Concert line up”

Martin Metcalfe has been busy performing in a theatre production of Revelations of Rab McVie at the Edinburgh Festival. “In a windowless world plagued by darkness and despair of the impending doom a man is striving for the light… “ The script is based on an essay by Maria Rud written 28 days before the fullContinue reading “Richard Jobson & Martin Metcalfe / UPDATE”

Davy Henderson makes a rare live appearance when the Sexual Objects appear as special guest of Callum Easter & The Roulettes at FRETS on Fri 3rd Nov at the Strathaven Hotel. Eugene Kelly will also be performing a special guest set of songs from his catalogue of solo and Vaselines songs. Tickets: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/586792

Hungry Beat has just been published as a paperback edition after the success of the hardback (published by White Rabbit last year). There are a couple of launches; the Edinburgh Book Festival on Saturday 19th August – tickets: https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/douglas-macintyre-grant-mcphee-hilary-morrison-paul-research-we-oppose-all-rock-n-roll-19016 The Social will host the London launch event on Monday 21st August. Tickets: https://www.seetickets.com/event/hungry-beat-the-scottish-postpunk-pop-underground/the-social/2739470 The HungryContinue reading “Hungry Beat book launches in Edinburgh & London”

The Bluebells / We Could Send Letters event on Fri 29th Sept at the Strathaven Hotel is nearly sold out. There are only 2 tickets left, available from this link: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/589423 BBC Radio Scotland presenter Nicola Meighan will be in conversation earlier in the evening (just after doors open at 7pm) with the The Bluebells’Continue reading “The Bluebells / We Could Send Letters – Fri 29th Sept (only 2 tickets remaining)”

A wee exclusive heads up to all of you on the FRETS mailing list. Tonight at 7pm we’ll be announcing the immediate sale of tickets for a full group performance by The Bluebells at the Strathaven Hotel. The concert will take place later this year on Friday 29th September. Tickets will be available from thisContinue reading “The Bluebells x FRETS on Friday 29th Sept. Tickets on sale tonight at 7pm”

Tickets for Callum Easter and the Roulettes with special guest Eugene Kelly are on sale at this link: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/586792 Eugene Kelly Biography Eugene is a Glasgow born musician/songwriter who began writing and recording music in 1987 with The Vaselines. The Vaselines released two singles and one LP on Edinburgh label 53rd & 3rd and remainedContinue reading “EUGENE KELLY x FRETS x Fri 3rd Nov”

Here is our schedule for the remainder of 2023. A couple of the concerts are to be confirmed (we are very close to being able to announce), tickets for the announced concerts are selling well, so recommended you purchase asap if interested in attending. 25th AUG – tbc 29th SEPT – tbc 6th OCT –Continue reading “FRETS – 2023 schedule”

It gives us great pleasure to announce that tickets for Callum Easter & the Roulettes concert go on sale tonight (Fri 30th June) at 8pm – here’s the link: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/586792 If anyone watched Glastonbury last week perhaps you’ll have seen Callum performing his own set then playing guitar with Young Fathers on their set. CallumContinue reading “CALLUM EASTER & THE ROULETTES – FRETS, Fri 3rd NOV”