by Aly Fraser, 22nd October
On the 4th of November Idlewild will play at the still-young HMV Picture House on their native Edinburgh’s Lothian Road. Although a great band, this is nothing out of the ordinary. It is right to assume that they would play their hometown. However when the Picture House opened on September ’08 it heralded a much needed freshening influx of popular, bigger acts to the capital.
It has already staged such high-profile acts as Travis, Feeder, Martha Wainwright, Walter Trout, The Charlatans, Peter Doherty, The Stranglers and Bloc Part
y. However it shows no sign of stopping there, with the venues Myspace stating;
“… with a capacity of 1500, it will fill the gap in the city’s live music offering and also redress Glasgow’s dominance of the scene over the last decade…”
With Editors, Stiff Little Fingers, Basshunter, The Dead Weather, Gary Moore, Reverend and The Makers, The Mars Volta and Ian Brown all taking to an Edinburgh, and not Glasgow, stage in the latter half of 2009, the HMV Picture Houses’ carpets may not look so young anymore.
For HMV Picture House gig listings and any other information visit their website or Myspace links above.