the sunshine delay

We’re really proud of our Iain who was asked to sit in for seven songs at Jim Lauderdale’s gig on Sunday 13th November at Oran Mor in Glasgow, at Jim’s invitation. Good looking as Iain is, Jim had only a very slightly more glamorous guest player at his recent London gig – none other than the oscar-winning Gwyneth Paltrow.

With a raft of Grammy nominations under his belt, Jim’s songs have been recorded by the likes of George Jones and George Strait. He’s co-written with the mighty Buddy Miller, and has played in Lucinda Williams and Elvis Costello’s bands.

And this is the second time he’s asked Iain to play with him. Go Iain!
(Photo by Karen Miller)

Thanks to everyone who came out to support us at the Voodoo Rooms on 7th October. We were truly thrilled to see so many of you there for the ‘wetting of our wee album’s heid’.

Thanks also goes to Brian Harris and his ‘Powerless Trio’ (Ben and Iain) for the tremendous warm up set and to Fraser Millar for the amazingly flattering photos (check them out on the ‘Photos’ tab).

And the night wouldn’t have rocked half so hard had it not been for George Stott’s steaming guitar and mandolin, and awesome keyboards from Ali Petrie.

Reviews of Keep It Together are starting to come in, like this one by John Davy at Flying Shoes: http://flyinshoes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-sunshine-delay-keep-it-together

We’ve got the album, we’ve got the date, we’ve got the venue, we’ve got George Stott and Ali Petrie playing with us, we’ve got the mighty Brian Harris supporting us, we’ve got just 3 days to go – now all we need is you!

Blending the best elements of country, roots and power pop, The Sunshine Delay launch their long-awaited second album, KEEP IT TOGETHER. Appealing to fans of REM, Wilco, Tom Petty and Lucinda Williams, the foursome will be joined by George Stott on guitar/mandolin and Ali Petrie (Hobotalk) on keyboards for their live album launch party. With support from Brian Harris.

Friday 7th October, 7.30pm

Speakeasy at The Voodoo Rooms

19a West Register St, Edinburgh
Tickets: £5.00 on the door

www.thevoodoorooms.com/events.php 


And if you can’t make the launch, you can download ‘Keep It Together’ from iTunes or cdbaby.

See you there baby!

We’re looking forward to our spot at the Southern Gatherin’ 2011 music festival in Peebles. Taking place on the 3rd and 4th of September, we’ll be playing a 45 min acoustic set at 3pm in the Bridge Inn on the Sunday, sharing the day with an eclectic mix of Scottish bands including Tucker & The Scattered Family, Dropkick and Kat Healy, amongst others.

Only a 45 min drive from Edinburgh, Peebles is dead easy to get to and it should be a cracking weekend all round. Check out www.southerngatherin.com for more!

Summer holiday season has begun and to celebrate we’re packing the bug spray and doing a (very) mini tour of our homeland. Two brand new venues for us, a local radio slot and a return visit to the foot of Ben Nevis. If you’re out exploring, do drop by.

Friday 29th July, 9.30pm, 51st State, 200 Argyll Street, Dunoon
Saturday 30th July, 9pm, Ben Nevis Inn, Claggan, Achintee, Fort William
Sunday 31st July, 7.30pm, Ceol-Mor, 18 Tomnahurich Street, Inverness

Might be unlucky for some, but we’re playing a gig at the lovely Nobles bar in Leith this Friday night, 13th or not. The band were recently enlightened that the number 13’s unlucky connotation sprung (slowly, mind) from events around the last supper. Not sure where the Friday bit slipped in. Still, we’re not inviting you for food (this is Edinburgh after all, you’ll have had yer tea) but Nobles does do some great grub if you get there early enough. Don’t know the last time you were at Nobles but it’s been restored to its former glory and we’ll be there from 9pm bringing you our truly lucky roots-rock Spring musical offering.

We want to give you as many ways as possible to keep up to date with what we’re doing so we’ve added a few social media features to the new site.

Firstly, you’ll see a Subscribe option on the right with links to either an RSS feed, an email subscription, or to ‘Like’ our Facebook page (which has a feed from the website).

Secondly, you’ll see a ShareThis icon at the bottom of each post/page. Clicking this allows you to send a link to that individual post/page by email, or to share it via Facebook or Twitter.

This is all new stuff so let us know if it doesn’t work!

Although the length of time between our albums now rivals The Blue Nile, we have been working hard on our second album for a few months now. It will contain some songs we’ve been playing live for a few years like Leaving Song and Don’t Have The Heart, as well as newer ones like Band Of Rain and the intriguingly titled Antimacassar.

Our friend Greg Moodie is going to do the sleeve but not until we can think of an album title….

Nothing on it yet though really……watch this space.