the sunshine delay

We had a great night there last month, and we’re very happy to be playing Bilbos on Chambers Street again this Friday 14th April, 9pm.

The very talented Mike Foy (Dropkick, Basher, Spangles) will be sitting in for Brendan on drums.

Yes, we’re back playing the Barony Bar on Sunday 26th February, 6-8pm.

New tunes, old tunes, top times.

We’ll see you there!

Postponed from Christmas due to illness, we will now be playing Thursday 2nd February at The Village, South Fort Street, Edinburgh, 7.30pm.

Definitely postponed but also now post-pay day – and any January-not-drinking crazy shenanigans folks may indulge in.

And we’ve new songs to share – yes, that Christmas number will get debuted, plus some more new album tracks in the making – and Paula’s new guitar.

Come join us, in the almost new year!

Posted this cracking review by Alena Yakushova on Facebook, where she writes up our 17/11/16 gig at the Voodoo Rooms, opening for Carrie Rodriguez, but forgot to share it with you all here! So here it is and thank you Alena – glad we hit the spot!

http://www.channel7a.com/live-review-carrie-rodriguez-voodoo-rooms-edinburgh-17-11-16/

Live Review: Carrie Rodriguez, Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh 17.11.16

It’s happening! Come and join us Thursday 17th November at in the Voodoo Rooms as we open the show for the talented, entertaining and gorgeous Texan songstress, Carrie Rodriguez. And we’ll be playing songs new and old on instruments old and new, in one of favourite venues, The Ballroom, upstairs at the Voodoo Rooms. Doors – 7.30pm.

The Sunshine Delay play – 8pm / Carrie Rodriguez – 9pm

Tickets only £12 on the door. See youse down the front!

We’re starting to get excited about opening for the delectable Carrie Rodriguez on Thursday 17th November at the Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh.

The daughter of accomplished songwriter David Rodriguez, Carrie came to everyone’s attention a decade ago, performing with singer-songwriter Chip Taylor.

She has established an impressive roster of touring, recording, and co-writing affiliations—with Lucinda Williams, Rickie Lee Jones, John Prine, Mary Gauthier, Alejandro Escovedo, guitarist Bill Frisell, and others. Carrie is returning to the UK for her first tour since the birth of her baby Cruz, armed with her new album ‘Lola’.

Lola is “the perfect bicultural album…It’s the album she was born to do, what with her mother’s west Texas roots and her father’s Mexican American background, but she arrived at this point by collecting her own identity along the way: first classical violin, then Americana fiddle and country vocal duets with Chip Taylor. The beauty of this album is in the details.”—Felix Contreras, NPR Music

Tickets are only £12 – for a show not to be missed! – and are available now from Tickets Scotland.

‘Nowt happens and then two come along at once. Gigs, that is.

We’re playing a couple of sets at a new venue for us, Biblos, on Chambers Street, on Friday 29 July, 9pm start. Full band, full rock out, full pints, and a full venue, if y’all come along.

The following Wednesday, 3 August at 7.30pm, we’re excited to be opening for Case Hardin at The Village on South Fort Street. Signed to the UK’s leading independent Americana label, Clubhouse Records, Case Hardin are touring their new album, Colours Simple.

‘Colours Simple is an album-lovers album, where characters tumble into each other for better or (mostly) worse, stories and ideas spilling out into the night like drunks from a bar’ – Andy Fyfe Q/Mojo

‘Incredible… Case Hardin rock harder than most’ – Maverick Festival 2015

We’re really looking forward to kicking off what promises to be an excellent night, with an opening set of original tunes, new and old.

It’s bound to be summer by then, so come on out and join us. There’s plenty of buses to get you there…

We’re very excited to be opening for the marvellous Carrie Rodriguez at the Voodoo Rooms in Edinburgh on Thursday 17 November 2016.

An Austin, Texas, native, Carrie has toured, recorded and co-written songs with legendary artists such as Lucinda Williams, John Prine, Bill Frisell, Rickie Lee Jones, Mary Gauthier, Los Lobos, Alejandro Escovedo and Los Lonely Boys, among others.

She’s an amazing performer: demon fiddle playing, electrifying vocals and she ain’t half bad to look at either. Have a look and listen for yourself.

Tickets are available now from Tickets Scotland.

Another gig to announce – and only a mere 2.5 months since our most-enjoyable Christmas comeback gig (!) – The Times They Are A-Changing, indeed.

We’ve been invited to play this year’s March into Pitlochry Festival that brings “indie and Americana bands from across the UK to the heartland of Scotland.”

Playing alongside Kevin McDermott, The Holy Ghosts, our esteemed pals The Wynntown Marshals and The New Madrids, we’ll be on at Fishers Hotel on Saturday 12th March at 10pm.

See you down the front!

Whaaaaat, only 15 months since our last Sunshine Delay gig? Oh my, indeed.

T’was the night after the Scottish Referendum vote and I’m not sure now which event has been buried deeper in the dusts of time…

Now 14 months into new parenthood for Paula and Dave, it’s time for the full band to shake off the set lists and get some old, new and in-between songs out into the light and warmth of a good venue.

Join us at 8.30pm on Tuesday 29th December at The Village in South Fort Street, Leith, and together we can rock 2015′s gig-hiatus right out the door!